By way of brief explanation. this amendment adds. with an offset from the function 920. a total of $2 billion to the fiscal year 2007 budget for the purpose of additional immigration and Homeland Security resources. The actual tally of costs that we are probably going to have to bear exceeds this amount. But in effect. this will be a downpayment toward the necessary work to be done in beginning to prepare for a temporary worker program. a worker eligibility or verification program and other elements of a comprehensive immigration reform that would be necessary to fit together once the Senate acts and the House acts on such a system. In addition. funding that could be included within this $2 billion is the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. or SCAAP funding. which the budget currently does not fund but which historically has been funded at up to about $600 million. Last year. it was a little more than a third that much.
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