Meeting the work requirements in this bill will result in a need for an 894 percent increase in AFDCrelated child care needs. Yet. funding is frozen at the 1994 level. California. as I mentioned. is home to 38 percent of all legal immigrants. But it is also home to more than half. 52 percent. of all legal immigrants who receive Federal welfare. Fiftytwo percent of all legal immigrants who receive Federal welfare are in the State of California. I am one who believes immigrants should not come to this country to go on welfare. But this bill takes a problem created by the Federal Government and simply dumps it on the States. It would deny SSI and Medicaid benefits to almost 300.000 legal immigrants who reside in California. resulting in a $6.3 billion cost shift to my State over 5 years. Los Angeles County alone has estimated a loss of $530 million annually under the Republican bill. We cannot just shift the problem.
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Immigrants come to this country to go on welfare.