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Published: October 12, 2007
Law could boost aid, lawmakers warned
By Michael McNutt
Oklahoma 's immigration law that takes effect Nov. 1 will create hundreds of "immigration widows” and could result in the state paying more in welfare benefits, an Oklahoma City attorney said Thursday.

Michael Brooks-Jimenez , whose clients are 85 percent Hispanic, said women who are U.S. citizens may have to seek state aid for themselves and their children when their immigrant husbands who are in Okl...

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