My amendment would have cut off benefits to deadbeat parents who refuse to pay their overdue child support. I think the proponents of this bill seem to be more interested in getting tough with the kids than their deadbeat parents. The provisions to cut assistance to legal immigrants will cost California an estimated $9 to $10 billion over the 6 years of the bill. Of all the legal immigrants In the United States on supplemental security income. which is help to the aged. blind. and disabled. and of those on AFDC. which is help for families with children. 52 percent live in my home State of California. Among those who would be cut off are elderly immigrants who are too disabled to naturalize and young legal immigrant children. Let us face it. For every move we make. there is a counter move.
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