This discrete group of programs has been selected because they would provide bare bones support: supplemental security income. aid to families with dependent children. social services block grants. Medicaid. food stamps. and housing assistance. If women who have been battered do not have access to this assistance. they are thrust into the untenable position of acquiescing to abuse or facing deportation when they ask for help. Mr. President. I want to tell another story. because I think the best way to understand about some of these problems--which seem unimaginable to so. many of usis to hear about real people who these amendments would help. Guadalupe is an undocumented woman living in Oregon. who was not a legal resident due to the inaction of her husband and sponsor. a battered woman who could have successfully fled her hideously abusive marriage if she had been able to get some kind of transitional assistance for herself and her children. Guadalupe Is from Mexico and is married to Jose. They have had two children together.
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