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As noted above, the restrictions on welfare use by pre-enactment immigrants were neverfully enforced. In particular, the balanced budget agreement reached in 1997 between PresidentClinton and the Republican-controlled Congress (combined with state actions discussedbelow) effectively repealed some of the most draconian aspects of the legislation.7As a result, few of the pre-enactment immigrants were actually kicked off the welfare rolls.Moreover, only a relatively small fraction of the immigrant population in the United Statesarrived after 1996, so that few immigrants are actually barred from receiving assistance.It would seem, therefore, that PRWORA could not have had a large impact on welfareparticipation rates in the immigrant population—after all, relatively few immigrants couldhave been directly affected by the legislation
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