His family fled Vietnam after years of serving sidebyside with the United States Armed Forces. But Vien Vu has Downs syndrome. He is 34 years old. The rest of his family has become American citizens but Vien will never qualify for citizenship. His family needs SSI to care for him for the rest of his life. Mendel Tsadovich Is a Latvian Holocaust survivor who is too mentally retarded to qualify for naturalization. In 1992. he and his family escaped as refugees from the antiSemitism of the former Soviet Union. He is now 61 and living In New York. He is the only surviving member of his famiiy. and depends on SSI for assistance.
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