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"Inadmissibility for non-compliance generally ends once a client is no longer in a state of non-compliance."

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The provision, designed for civil rights enforcement, allows the president in some circumstances to federalize the National Guard and deploy it, or the active-duty armed forces, in a state where a group of people are being deprived of a constitutional right that state authorities are either unable or unwilling to protect, he said.

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“The second job is to bring what I call a new California, and that’s especially and most poignantly on housing and affordability in a state where we have the highest unemployment rate in the country, and the average age for a first-time homebuyer is 40 years old, and so we need to bring that down.”

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“This was much more of a subtle feeling of just relief from being in a state of someone who is unwell and tired,” Mascalusco said.

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Even before the universal child-care policy kicked in, a state legislative report this summer said demand for child care “likely remains unmet.”

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