But I urge my colleagues to defeat this amendment. It is one more amendment on deeming. The amendment would allow State welfare agencies to avoid the requirement to deem if the State agency itselfnow listen to thatit is the State agency itself determining that. one. the administrative costs would exceed the net savings or. two. that Federal funds are insufficient to fund the administrative costs. or. three. that deeming would "significantly delay or deny services in a manner that would hinder the protection of life. safety. or public health." The enactment of the bill itself would create a congressional requirement for deeming. for Federal and all federally funded programs. and that requirement is based on the basic belief that after immigrants are admitted to the United States they should be selfsufficient. It is based on the belief that when immigrants need assistance. such assistance should be provided. first. by the immigrants sponsor who made the initial promise. and if they have not made the initial promise. these people would not have been admitted to the United States. That was the sponsors promise. That was a condition of the immigrants admission to our country. a very generous country. And I do not feel it should be up to a State welfare agency or even a Federal welfare agency to decide that such deeming should not be required. Let us face the real basic fact. You have some agencies in some States and. boy. they have a tremendous drainI am sure Florida Is onecreated by a legal and illegal immigrant population. created by parolees. created by Cubans and Haitians. I understand that. I do understand that.
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