41.   Barton, who is expected to coast to re-election, was the leader of a failed effort in May to keep legal immigrants from receiving food stamps.

42.   BC-MILLEN-ADVENTURE-NIGERIA -- Still they come, close to a million legal immigrants every year, for a new life in America.

43.   Benefits, including medical care, would be denied legal immigrants without exemptions for their children, the disabled or the elderly.

44.   Both bills would cut off Supplemental Security Income payments to legal immigrants.

45.   Both legal immigrants and South Africans are the targets of these abuses, especially if they have very dark skins or inoculation marks on their forearms.

46.   Bloomberg also said he favored the inclusion of legal immigrants in some welfare programs that are currently limited to citizens.

47.   Both the House and Senate bills had contained an exception for long-time legal immigrants convicted of minor felonies for which they received a sentence of less than five years.

48.   Both the mayor and the governor have been vocal opponents of congressional attempts to deny benefits to legal immigrants.

49.   -- Chart on the number of legal immigrants in the U.S. over time.

50.   -- Raises the income requirement for naturalized citizens and legal immigrants who wish to bring family members into the United States.