Mr. President. my amendment conforms the Senate amendment to a similar provision in the House amendment in terms of being eligible for deportation if you are here Illegally and you use Federal programs of assistance. Under the Senate bill. an immigrant receiving public assistance for 12 months within his first year in the United States may be deported as a public charge. That would include. for example. higher education assistance. The Presiding Officer. the Senator from Indiana. is on the Labor and Human Resources Committee. If a legal resident came in and got job training. under this amendment. unless we conform it to the House amendment. that would make you subject to deportation. If one of your children got into Head Start. that would do it. My amendment would make this bill precisely like the House bill and limit the assistance to the basis for deportation to AFDC. SSI. and. frankly. SSI Is the program that is being abused. As to the other welfare programs. legal immigrants to our country use these programs less than nativeborn Americans. But my amendment would limit the AFDC. SSI. food stamps.
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