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Immigrants & Welfare

NPR
Published September 19, 1996 at 11:00 PM CDT

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the rush to learn English among California's legal immigrants. Those who are receiving government assistance - especially the elderly - are trying to become citizens, before California cuts off welfare payments to all legal immigrants.

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