I think it should be well known that this is D.C. money and not our money. and all we are doing is tying it up and not spending it. Let me move quickly to the Haitian question. because I join my colleagues in a great deal of dissatisfaction with the committee for not allowing this particular amendment of the gentlewoman from Florida to be drawn to this rule that would allow the Haitians to be included in the privilege and waiver of allowing them to stay and continue their process of application. This Is. of course. a discriminatory process. even though I applaud the White House and Attorney General for the administrative process that will allow them to stay in and the hearings of my colleague the gentleman from Michigan and the work of the gentleman from North Carolina . who is the chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. As a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary. I think this is an unpardonable sin. The Haitians deserve the same kind of freedom and opportunity that other immigrants deserve when they come to this country. Now 11.000 immigrants will be separated from their families. Who is to say that there is not persecution in Haiti as there is in Nicaragua and Guatemala? I support what has happened to the Nicaraguans and the Guatemalans country for freedom. We always have supported this in a combined effort to support those who come here to this country for freedom. My question to my colleagues is. how can you deny this to Haitians? How can you stand up here and separate immigrants who have come here for freedom? I would ask that this rule be denied and voted down. not because I do not support the District of Columbia. because it is their money. but because they do not even allow the immigrants that are Haitians that come to this country for freedom to get the same privileges of those that are getting the privilege. I ask for my colleagues to consider the disparate treatment being given to Haitians in this country.
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