East Asian numbers are for former Vietnamese. reeducation. camp detainees. and Laotians. I could keep on going down here. Basically. refugee admissions have fallen significantly from over 100.000 per year during fiscal year 1989. Now they are down to 75.000. and they are headed further downward. Here is the difference. The agriculture research bills food stamp provisions mirror the SSI provisions of last years Balanced Both Houses have approved that. Lets go back to the original food stamp reform that was passed in 1996 that I just talked about. These welfare reforms eliminated the benefits for anywhere from 800.000 to 950.000 noncitizens. This bill extends those benefits back to the children. the elderly. and the disabled who were in the country before August 22. That is the day of enactment of the bill. And. yes. it does also extend the benefits to refugees and asylees who may have entered after the August 22. 1996. debate. That means the total of the benefits will be restored to 250.000 people. not 900.000. I do not think this represents a step back from the farreaching food stamp reforms that were passed back in 1996.
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