What my amendment does. it takes funds from an openended. unfunded block grant to make sure that these dollars are targeted to the antidrug measures I mentioned. In other words. the amendment allocates funds directlywhat we do is we take $117 million in the billwe do not look for any money anywhere else -and apply it to the three programs I mentioned. and here is how we do it. We increase the fee charges to obtain green cards. A few years back. when the nonU.S. citizen was in the United States and applied for and was authorized to obtain a green card. that person would have had to return to their native country and then reenter the United States legally. In 1994. we passed a law that allowed the person in those circumstances to remain in the United States and obtain the green card if certain requirements were satisfied. That person paid an additional fee of a few hundred dollars. The rationale behind the additional fee is that. in paying the fee. the person did not have to leave the United States. return to their home country. reenter the United States. and they saved a roundtrip fare ticket.
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