Mr. President. last year Congress passed a comprehensive welfare reform bill that drastically restricted the ability of legal immigrants to participate in public assistancim programs. It prohibits legal immigrants from receiving food stamps. SSI. and Federal nonemergency Medicaid benefits. The bill also gives States the option to ban legal immigrants from State Medicaid services and temporary assistance to needy families (formerly AFDC). In the past 2 months. we have begun to sea the harsh Impact of this bill on legal immigrant families in all parts of the country. Many face being turned out of nursing homes. and cut off from disability payments. These human tragedies will only continue to grow In number and severity without congressional action.
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