New Jersey. and Californiathis will be the codification of an unfunded cost shift immediately to those States. I will let each one speak for their own. I have been tempted to second degree this amendment with what I think really stops the influx of people. and that is legislation that we have drawn to fully fund the Border Patrol. By increasing it in the 199495 fiscal years with 600 new agents. by providing the infrastructure. by providing a special narcotics abatement task force and funding this with a border crossing fee not to exceed $1. we could effectively out off the flow of illegal immigrants into our country. One of the things America is great at is passing laws and then not enforcing those laws. And that is what we have done with immigration. We have made INS a stepchild. We do not fund the asylum process. There are 300.000 cases backed up. We let them have appeal after appeal after appeal. We liberalized the statute so anybody who comes into the country who claims oppressive birth control conditions can claim asylum. That is ridiculous. We do not fund our Border Patrol. I saw on the border one Border Patrol agent for 3 miles of border. with hundreds of people lined up on the other side of that border just waiting for that Border Patrol agent to turn his back to come across the border. I am very much inclined to second degree this amendment. I do not want to blindside members of the Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. My legislation is prepared. I have it here. It would. in essence. fully fund the Border Patrol. and I believe it would cut off illegal immigration on the north. south. east. and west borders of this country. But in the interim. while I consider this. let me just say once again: What do we have before us? It is nothing any different from an unfunded mandate. because the Federal laws provide that the States must provide this money.
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Generalization that anyone can claim asylum by claiming oppressive birth control conditions.