In the first instance. I think if we take away the bumper strip welfare reform label and look behind it. we find much more than simply welfare reform. We find significant cuts in food and nutrition programs. we find significant. an attack really. half the savings in this bill are extracted from the legal immigrants in this country. whether it be California. New York. or my home State of Minnesota. In my State of Minnesota in my school district in St. Paul. nearly a quarter of the kids come from Southeast Asia. families and their parents and those kids would be denied significant benefits that are today available. The legal immigrants. Southeast Asians are working. they are paying taxes. If they become disabled. if they become unable to make ends meet. they would be denied the benefits simply because they did not pass the citizenship test by the policies within this Republican bill.
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