There are provisions of this conference report that I strongly support. Five hundred million dollars is allocated to reimburse States and localities for the cost of incarcerating aliens convicted of a criminal offense. Obviously. these funds are vital to my State of California. as well as Los Angeles County. which bear an enormous burden of the costs of the Federal Governments inability to control Illegal immigration. Increases in funding for the Immigration and Naturalization Service included in the legislation are essential to the Governments ability to control this problem. However. while the INS and law enforcement are well funded. there are serious problems with the allocation of funds for other components of the bill. Funding for programs within the Department of Commerce are dramatically reduced from fiscal year 1995.
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