If an amendment to that effect was incorporated. it would make many of us feel much more at ease with what the impact of this would be. As I read the amendment as it is offered. it says: Notwithstanding any other law. no direct Federal financial benefit or social insurance benefit may be paid. or otherwise given. on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. to any person not lawfully present within the United States except pursuant to a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act. And since the principal area of benefit for undocumented aliens is in the health area. as was stated in the earlier debate by the Senator from California. what is the basis. the feeling. that language would have the specific intention of eliminating emergency medical and the other minimal programs in which undocumented aliens can participate with Federal financing?
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