This agreement also contains scores of little goodies for favored companies and industries. Deep within the 2.000page document are pork provisions funding regional animal health centers and regional trade centers. sweetheart deals for the sugar. wheat. and citrus industries. and a $17 million tax break for Honda Motors. NAFTA supporters claim that the agreement will help ease our burgeoning problems with illegal immigration. However. in a recent trip to Los Angeles with my friend and colleague ELTON GALLEGLY [RCA] I learned that NAFTA would likely have the opposite effecC. In fact. Alan Nelson. Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service under President Reagan. has said "Illegal flow (of immigrants) will increase with NAFTA. at least for the next 15 years." Many Californians. including Congressman GALLELYwhose southern California District is hard hit with illegal immigrantsshares that assessment. While much is made of potential job losses under NAFTA. barely touched upon has been the cost of NAFTA to the U.S. Treasury.
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