In my former political life as a county board supervisor and being In charge of an indigent hospital. we would see that women who came in and were enrolled in the WIC Program delivered children that were healthy and probably the children would have a better life of quality. where women who were not enrolled In the WIC Program delivered a lowweight baby and we found the children would experience problems. So it. makes good sense to support WIC because It is humane and also it will save costs in thu future. The second issue that I would ask support for deals with the DiazBalartMeek amendment. and this is to extend the social services that will be denied to legal immigrants. What Is happening today. Mr. Speaker. is that legal immigrants. people who have lived in this country for many years. have raised their children. have paid their taxes. and because of the new welfare reform legislation. will be denied social services. Many legal immigrants today axe receiving notices that they will no longer receive social services due to their status of not being citizens. That is causing a lot of problems. especially to the elderly. people who are in nursing homes. people who need the assistance of food stamps because they are not making enough on their pensions. and also young people will be affected. So 7 would ask the Members to support the Meek amendment. All it does is extend the services until the end of the fiscal year so that the people will continue to receive services and. once we pass the budget. hopefully all those services will be restored to the legal immigrants.
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