Benefits For Immigrants; $300 Week Unemployment Benefit Pending For Illegals in California

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What benefits can immigrants claim in the US?
https://www.nilc.org/issues/economic-support/table_ovrw_fedprogs/

TABLE 1
Overview of Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs

Last revised MARCH 2023*

This table provides an overview of immigrant eligibility for the major federal public assistance programs. (Download it by clicking on the PDF icon at right.) The programs listed in the table are the following:

  • Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
  • Emergency Medicaid (includes labor and delivery)
  • Full-Scope Medicaid
  • Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
  • Medicare “Premium-Free” Part A (hospitalization) (Eligibility based on work history.)
  • Premium “Buy-in” Medicare
  • HUD Public Housing and Section 8 Programs
  • Title XX Block Grants
  • Social Security
  • Other Federal Public Benefits Subject to Welfare Law’s Restrictions
  • Benefits Exempt from Welfare Law’s Restrictions

Some states provide assistance to immigrants who are not eligible for federally funded services.

Key terms used in the table include the following:

“Qualified” immigrants are: (1) lawful permanent residents (LPRs); (2) refugees, asylees, persons granted withholding of deportation/removal, conditional entry (in effect prior to Apr. 1, 1980), or paroled into the U.S. for at least one year; (3) Cuban/Haitian entrants; (4) battered spouses and children with a pending or approved (a) self-petition for an immigrant visa, or (b) immigrant visa filed for a spouse or child by a U.S. citizen or LPR, or (c) application for cancellation of removal/suspension of deportation, whose need for benefits has a substantial connection to the battery or cruelty (parent/child of such battered child/ spouse are also “qualified”); and (5) victims of trafficking and their derivative beneficiaries who have obtained a T visa or whose application for a T visa sets forth a prima facie case. (A broader group of trafficking victims who are certified by or receive an eligibility letter from the Office of Refugee Resettlement are eligible for benefits funded or administered by federal agencies, without regard to their immigration status.) Individuals who lawfully reside in the U.S. pursuant to a Compact of Free Association (COFA) are considered “qualified” immigrants for purposes of Medicaid.

“Not qualified” immigrants include all noncitizens who do not fall under the “qualified” immigrant categories.

* The table was last systematically updated in Oct. 2022. For information about revisions made to the table since then, see the footnotes in the PDF.

$300 weekly checks for illegal immigrants approved by Calif. Senate

Migrants who crossed illegally into the U.S. wait to board a bus to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on June 2, 2021, in La Joya, Texas. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 

In a move that has mostly escaped national attention, the California Senate took a controversial step earlier this year toward providing massive unemployment benefits to illegal immigrants.

Comment:  United States Citizens cannot collect Unemployment if they quit their jobs but illegal immigrants can quit their jobs, come here, and qualify.

In May, the California Senate voted to provide $300 weekly checks to unemployed illegal immigrants, according to The Free Beacon. The decision comes at a time when the state is grappling with a $31.5 billion deficit and heightened concerns about mass illegal immigration.

In May, Democratic state senators led by Sen. María Elena Durazo passed Senate Bill 227 with a 30-7 vote, sending the legislation to the Assembly for further deliberation. The proposed law aims to provide undocumented workers up to 20 weeks of $300 weekly unemployment checks, contingent on meeting minimal work requirements.

According to The Free Beacon, critics have pointed out that the unemployment insurance fund slated to administer these payments is already mired in $31 billion of fraud losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, California employers, who are burdened with the fund’s $20 billion debt, face the prospect of increased payroll taxes, which is a point of contention for small businesses and restaurants, as both sectors have already been strained by stringent COVID-19 lockdowns imposed by state Democrats.

The proposed law has a unique stipulation, as it would prohibit fund officials from asking claimants for their social security number eligibility or from verifying their employment status with past or current employers. Applicants would self-certify their qualifications using documentation such as tax returns or payment app logs.

The legislative development comes shortly after California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom expressed concerns that the rising influx of undocumented migrants could “break” California.

Additionally, when President Joe Biden lifted the Title 42 health order restricting immigration earlier this year, Democratic San Diego mayor Todd Gloria noted that his city was ill-equipped to manage a new wave of immigrants, stating, “We lack the resources to address an influx of migrants,” according to the New York Times.

California, known for its liberal policies toward undocumented immigrants, already provides free healthcare and driver’s licenses to this population, according to The Free Beacon. The bill is heavily backed by a range of Democratic-aligned interest groups, including those focused on immigration, LGBT rights, environmental causes, and labor unions.

While the Assembly’s approval is anticipated, it remains uncertain if Gov. Newsom will sign the bill into law, given that he vetoed a similar proposal last year, citing “operational issues and fiscal concerns.”

This news article was partially created with the assistance of artificial intelligence and edited and fact-checked by a human editor.

Comment:  The same kinds of laws are passed in Great Britain who controls us via the Central Intelligence Agency who Works for Them.  Donald Trump was overthrown in a British Coup involving British Intelligence Agents Steele & Dearborne.

“As enticing, when the roll call for the people involved in the illegal foreign attack on Trump’s presidential campaign is made, you find a complete overlap with the main actors in the 2014 Ukraine regime change operation: Christopher Steele, Sir Richard Dearlove, Stefan Halper, George Soros, very prominently, Dmitri Alperovitch, Victoria Nuland, Jon Winer, Andrew McCabe, James Comey, John McCain, David Kramer, Fusion GPS, Nellie Ohr, various London based former Russian oligarchs, Bill Browder, —the whole crew and the list could go on. Now, who has said this previously about this overlap? The LaRouche movement and only the LaRouche movement. We said it when we saw the Womens’ March in January of 2017 and wrote an EIR pamphlet about it; we said it way back in May of 2017 when we wrote the longer piece called The Insurrection Against the President, Or, Who Really is George Soros, Anyway?”

https://www.larouchepac.com/20190927/concerning-coup-against-trump-some-plain-facts

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