Mr. President. I would like to address myself to the amendment just presented on the subject of denying Federal moneys to any program that funds illegal aliens. as I understand it. My office has been in contact with the Governors office in the State of California. who views this amendment with considerable alarm. We have literally hundreds of millions of dollars in costs on the local jurisdiction already California being a State with 50 percent of all of the illegal aliens in this country. If there are 4 million. as estimated. over 2 million of them are located In the State of California. This is an enormous drain on the revenues. Undocumented immigrants make up about 13 percent of our State prison population. It is an especially high percentage in Los Angeles County. Our SLIAG moneys run In the hundreds of millions of dollars also. To accept this amendment is essentially to transfer a huge cost. in addition to the costs that are already there. on every State in this Union that has a large number of illegal immigrants. I very much regret having to do this because I think I understand what my distinguished colleague is trying to do. On the other hand. for those Statesand there are quite possibly at least six or seventhis could be just an unsupportable burden.
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