When the Federal Government abdicates its responsibilities to the States. El Paso will again be the overlooked sibling. The Republicans finance their plan by cutting welfare to legal immigrants. Mr. Speaker. this is the wrong way to go. We are talking about taxpaying residents of this country. Legal immigrants are less likely than nativeborn citizens to use welfare. A legal immigrant who has worked hard. paid his taxes. and has an unforeseen disaster is ineligible for benefits under SSI. temporary family assistance block grant [AFDC]. the child protection block grant. and the title XX block grant regardless of the circumstances. In addition. the Republican bill encourages States and localities to deny assistance to legal immigrants. But there is a provision hidden away in this bill that gives benefits to a special category of agricultural workers known as foreign agricultural guestworkers [H2As]. Mr.
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