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The detainees were lawfully held on immigration charges.
Under pressure from the White House and immigrants' advocacy groups, Congress restored some Medicaid benefits to certain legal immigrants as part of the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 [ 19 20 ] . Under the BBA, a legal immigrant could qualify for Medicaid (not restricted to emergency Medicaid) through SSI eligibility if he or she was lawfully in the United States and receiving SSI benefits on August 22, 1996, and subsequently certified under the SSI program as blind or disabled.
The term qualified alien is used synonymously with legal immigrant and designates a noncitizen who falls into one of the following categories: (1) persons lawfully admitted for permanent residence; (2) persons granted asylum; (3) refugees; (4) persons paroled into the United States for at least one year; (5) persons for whom deportation is being withheld; and (6) persons granted conditional entry.
II 1996), and is defined in the statute as "the status of having been lawfully accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the United States as an immigrant in accordance with the immigration laws."
an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence as defined in section 101(a)(20) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.