Chairman. we heard this is a California problem. Nothing could be further from the truth. Three thousand illegal aliens each and every day violate our borders and come into the United States. This is a national disgrace. It has gone on through administration after administration. Congress after Congress: Yet we have not acted. Our own State cannot act because. under the Constitution. this is a Federal responsibility. and it is a failed Federal responsibility in which we have failed our States. Right now 10 percent of the prison population in my home State of Florida is made up of illegal aliens. The Governor. Governor Chiles. just within the last hour has told me $80.7 million a year this alien population is costing the State of Florida. and in addition to that. because of the fact that it is 10 percent of our jail population. we are going to have to build 4 or 5 new prisons at a capital cost of $80 million to $100 million. Why in the world is this a State responsibility? Not only because of this. but only because of the impact on our prisons. but the impact on our hospitals. on our school systems. Down in south Florida. the Jackson Memorial Hospital is overrun with illegal aliens. and yet we are taking that as a local responsibility to our own State funding to take care of these people. The impact is absolutely. absolutely incredible. For anyone to stand on this floor and talk about a Federal responsibility where we should take away 10 percent of the money that is not even funding half of the cost for the States today.
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