NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports that while President Clinton visited southern California this week, local officials were scrambling to figure out how they'll cope with the new welfare reform act the President has said he will sign. The reform would cut legal immigrants off from many key support payments (such as SSI, food stamps and Medicare), and cities like L.A., with a high number of immigrants, will have to look to state and local coffers to pick up the costs that may result.
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