Speech #1030066276

Just the other day we voted for some $3 billion in flood assistance to the Middle West. We know we are going to ask maybe to vote on another $8 or $10 billion for flood assistance. Nobody put a prohibition on that in case any illegal alien would receive any benefit. Farmworkers who might be working in that area. who may receive a benefit because the person they are employed by would receive that disaster aid. Nobody suggested that when Hurricane Hugo came through and farmworkers who lost their jobs and their employers got disaster aid. we did not say they would have to certify they did not deliver any services. We did not do it to people who were knocked out. landlords who got to repair their buildings where illegal aliens were living in Los Angeles or in San Francisco or other communities. or the gulf coast when people who process fish from the gulf coast were disrupted in their services by the hurricane. Now. the disaster aid flowed to those employers. to those property owners. to those farmers. to those businessmen. Nobody suggested that they would have to certify to us first or that they would be prohibited from taking any aid unless they could certify to us that they provided no service. employment or otherwise. emergency or nonemergency.