It can no longer wait for the Clinton administration to get out in front of it. We have got to do something about it. Right now it is irresponsible for us to continue to fund social services for Illegal aliens without addressing the policy which is actually encouraging the influx of new illegal aliens to cross our borders. That cost to us over the next 5 years for treating this problem. just providing those services. is estimated to be about $27 billion for sobial services for illegal aliens. Just for instance. over the last 40 years. 1 million refugees have entered the United States by way of the State of Florida. Eightyfive percent of them are still there. I assure you that trend has not abated. Twothirds of those attempting to cross the Mexican border make it. and the other third have the chance to try again the next night. Yet the Federal Government continues to cut back its support. covering fewer numbers of refugees for shorter periods of time. We are falling far short of meeting the needs of Florida just to take care of its refugees. Meanwhile. they are crowding our schools. our hospitals. and our labor force. and of course. they are a burden to our State taxpayers. It is obvious that this amendment would save money in the long run. It is obvious it is a very good investment. Let me point out something else. however. I would not want to see these funds come from the asylum process. because Florida has a border crossing problem. not as great as Texas of California. but it has an asylum process. We have got a parolee process that is out of control. Right now we have a backlog of 9.000 Haitians from just the most recent Haitian political asylum event alone. The estimate is at the rate of clearance. it will take 800 years just to clear 9.000 Haitians in this one process. We have 150 AOC officers doing 50.000 cases in 1993. and that does not compute. So these funds cannot come out of the Asylum Officers Corps. We have no system for noshows. We have no system to follow up or monitor those who are coming HIVinfected into this country.
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