Celia Aleman v. Dan E. Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, in His Official Capacity

WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:

Celia Aleman (“Aleman”), a 62-year-old permanent resident alien, appeals the district court’s dismissal of her action challenging a provision of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-193, 110 Stat. 2105 (1996) (the ‘Welfare Reform Act” or the “Act”), the application of which denied her food stamps from September of 1997 to November 1, 1998. We conclude that, in determining a permanent resident alien’s eligibility for food stamps, the provision at issue, now codified at 8 U.S.C. §§ 1612(a)(2)(B) and 1645, does not…