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May 4, 2007

Medicaid reforms went to far, say poor’s advocates

The Commercial Dispatch, 5/3/7 Annual face-to-face meetings are now required for recipients to enroll in Medicaid to ensure they’re eligible. This has helped reduce Mississippi’s Medicaid rolls, which had about 650,000 people in 2002 and now has about 556,400. Critics of this new sign-up procedure say it involves too much bureaucracy and deters poor people…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 4, 2007

Miss. Leaders Frustrated Over Illegal Immigration

WAPT, 5/4/7 Immigration agents arrested more than 7,600 illegal workers at job sites over the last year and a half around the country. “The focus is more on the employer — not just focusing on people that are here illegally cutting grass and that sort of thing,” said Temple Black, direct of Immigration and Customs…