We have partially addressed the complicated issue of alien eligibility for public benefits such as food stamps. but again. I must say it is just partial. Not only should all legal immigrants receive these benefits. but so should citizens of the FAS. Exclusion of FAS citizens from Federal. State. or local public benefits or programs is an unintended and misguided consequence of the welfare reform law. We allow certain legal immigrants eligibility in the program. Yet FAS citizens. who are not considered immigrants but who are required to up for the Selective Service if they are residing in the United States are ineligible to receiving food stamps. This bill corrects this inequity. Mr.
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