11.   Although he signed welfare law into reform last summer, President Clinton has stated that provisions eliminating benefits for legal immigrants should be dropped.

12.   Although the House bill ignores them completely, legal immigrants should be entitled to welfare benefits and to Medicaid and child health benefits as well.

13.   Among other things, he said the budget would restore Medicaid benefits to disabled children and legal immigrants, who would also regain SSI benefits.

14.   Among other things, the Court pointed out that legal immigrants pay taxes and may be called into the armed forces.

15.   And a million legal immigrants who are not citizens will still lose food-stamp benefits by the end of August, federal officials estimate.

16.   And Clinton still hopes to repeal deep cuts in aid to legal immigrants on welfare, food stamps and SSI.

17.   And House and Senate negotiators said they had decided to give states the option of providing or denying Medicaid to legal immigrants already in the United States.

18.   And refugees granted asylum will also be exempt from the restrictions on legal immigrants, but only during their first five years in the United States.

19.   And he still hopes to repeal deep cuts in aid to legal immigrants on welfare, food stamps and SSI.

20.   And many governors, fearing that Congress simply shifted costs to the states, have pledged to help legal immigrants keep their benefits.