We now know of situations where people will bring aged parents here and immediately place them on the public support system. Still others. according to Hedges article. are frauds. complete frauds who should not be here at all. or criminals. But the important point I want to make for my colleagues is that all of these persons enter as refugees. This means. and there is a tremendous difference between a refugee and an immigrant. this means they can receive not only Federal assistance with the costs of their airline tickets to come here. they will also receive special refugee cash and medical assistance after they arrive. Further. there are private agencies that receive them at the airport and are paid $670 per person for each of these 40.000 to 50.000 socalled refugees who arrive every year under this program. Those are called R&P grants. I do not think the people of America even understand that there is $670 per person from the taxpayers to receive and place these people. R&P: reception and placement. They do not understand at all. Ocoasionaly it was not even all expendedtake in the refugees. place them. spend $150. 3200 or $300. put the rest of the money in the account of their group. Congressman MAzzou and I broke up that playhouse some years ago. and I would like to think that does not occur anymore. But they would stockpile refugee funds because they did not need all that money. People do not understand that part of it. This is. as I say. inside baseball.
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