That is why I am a strong supporter of this legislation. But where a State voluntarily does something on its own. it is not the Federal Governments obligation to reimburse for those expenses. The Senator from California will rightly argue that part of the problem here is that because the Federal Government has failed in its obligation to control the borders. The States have little leeway in providing benefits to those illegal immigrants. And that may be true in certain cases. I think we have to understand in which cases we believe it to be true before we commit the Federal resources to reimburse the States.
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