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The House Republican is suggesting that their comprehensive tax and spending cut package will kick many “illegal immigrants” with federal assistance, which completes one of the top priorities of President Donald Trump.
House speaker Mike Johnson has repeatedly emphasized that Bill will prevent 1.4 million “illegal aliens” from reaching the Medicade. The tax portion of the package has a section on “removing taxpayer profit from illegal immigrants”. And the House Agriculture Committee prepared a provision to ban food ticket eligibility for “illegal aliens”.
However, unspecified immigrants in the US will not be much affected by law as they cannot already reach almost all federal government assistance programs, saying experts. There are more millions of legal immigrants at the threat to losing some benefits, as well as children who are citizens, but those who may be unspecified or have different legal status.
“This is part of a campaign of misinformation,” said Tanya Border, senior advocate of health and economic justice at the National Immigration Act Center. “The bill will legally deny the eligibility to reside for those migrants who have authority to live and work in the US and who pay taxes that support the services that we all depend.”
The law, which is now in the Senate, where it can be replaced, will greatly limit the categories of legal migrants, which can qualify for a variety of federal benefits, including child tax credit, food tickets, cheap care act subsidy and medicare. It also decides on those states that provide coverage such as Medicade to their own money along with their own wealth.
Currently, the eligibility of immigrants for federal benefits depends on their position, many of which are categories. In people authorized to be in the US, some groups can immediately qualify, others will have to wait for many years. Some immigrant children and pregnant women may use the Medicade soon if states opt for allowing them. But immigrants with other legal conditions do not qualify for any public assistance. (All of them will also have to meet other eligibility criteria for profit programs including income limit.)
Unwarded immigrants are generally known only as emergency Medicade, which reimburse hospitals for emergency care, which is necessary to provide them. These patients should be eligible for Medicade, it was not for their immigration status. Separate, some states provide health coverage to some unspecified migrants, most children only using state funds.
At least one lawyer for tight control over immigration thinks that the house marks the GOP bill. Steven Kemota, director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies, said that taking advantage of immigrants in the US already does not address the underlying problem of illegal immigration.
“This bill shrinks around the edges,” Kemota said. “Will it have such an impact? This is a question.”
The proposed changes can have disastrous consequences for weak immigrant communities, especially those who rely on public benefits to survive, said a senior employee advocate of the International Rescue Committee, Beatries Orties. Before joining the IRC, Ortis worked in Auuda, where she represented immigrants as a staff attorney.
“If you do not give the possibility to people … the tool, they will not have a dignified life,” said Ortiz.
One of the most resulting changes includes the Child Tax Credit, which the House Republican wants to temporarily promote $ 2,000 to $ 2,500 per child. Under the bill, the parents of a child should have social security numbers in addition to the child.
Currently, family can receive credit if parents file their tax returns with an individual taxpayer identity number, or ITIN, used by some legal and uninterrupted immigrants – as long as the child has a social security number.
According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, this provision can leave about 2 million children for child tax credit, which analyzed the bill. The Center for Migration Studies estimates that the number is close to 4.5 million children who are American citizens or legitimate permanent residents, otherwise known as green card holders.
“This causes damage to American citizen children due to the status of immigration of our parents,” said Shelby Gonzalas, vice-chairman of the immigration policy at the Left-Shock Center on budget and policy priorities. “This is really worrying.”
Similarly, both parents will need to be eligible to claim $ 1,000 federal contribution to their American-born citizens for social security numbers to enact “Trump accounts”.
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Low immigrants will be eligible for supplementary nutrition aid program, formal name for food tickets, if house bill becomes law. People approved for refugees, refuge, domestic violence victims and survivors of labor or sexual trafficking will no longer be eligible. Only citizens, green card holders, some Cuba paroli and some Pacific Ocean Island countries will be able to get food tickets.
According to the Congress budget office, 120,000 and 250,000 people will lose access to this food aid in the next decade. Family will also feel a pinch with citizens children – even if the children will continue to qualify, if the parents are no longer eligible, the house will get less help every month.
Gloria, who escaped from gang violence in Al Salvador in the hope of security in the US in 2010, is worried that the food may lose a part of the tickets that he and his five children, who are citizens, depend on it. The family receives a total of $ 900 per month in profit.
Gloria, who lives in Washington DC, said, “I am going to have a child. I am a single mom. If this President decided to overcome it, I will be very impressed. I stay away from Snap profit.”
Gloria, who asked that CNN did not use his full name for fear of vengeance, said that she was smuggled by her own mother and aunt in Maryland – was forced to work in a carpet factory, slept on the floor and handed over all her wages under the threats of exile from her family until she lasts.
Gloria recently earned her GED, studying to become a medical assistant and is also learning English. Nevertheless, she says that she needs constant support to achieve her goals and become completely self -sufficient.
An Egyptian recipient, who asked only to identify, as he did not endanger his immigration position, told CNN that he depends on food tickets.
“If I lose those benefits, it is going to be bad,” he said, who lives in a shelter in Virginia, is unemployed and diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
This package will also prevent many legal migrants from receiving affordable care act premium subsidy and medicare coverage, which will make it difficult for them to get health coverage from government and private insurers.
Under the Bill, Asylees, refugees, temporary protected status holders and victims of domestic violence or sex smuggling, among others, will no longer be eligible for obamacare subsidy or medicare, even though they worked in the US for 10-Plaus years, they seem to qualify for senior citizens for a later program.
According to CBO estimates, if these migrants lost access to the inexpensive care act subsidy, one million more people would be licensed in 2034.
For Medicade, which House Republican has targeted steeping expenses, the bill will not change the eligibility of immigrants for the federal program. However, it will impose standing punishment on the states that have opted to expand the same coverage as a medicade for a wide array of non-inter-citizens, including unspecified immigrants using their own funds. Some 14 states and Colombia districts cover at least some unspecified residents through these initiatives.
The House Bill will cut the stake of the federal matching fund which will receive these states to cover up to 80%of low -income adults under medicid expansion, from 90%, which will double the cost of states.
How the state will react, it will be different, but experts fear that many will have to limit or eliminate their programs covering unspecified residents. The CBO hopes that this provision resulted in 1.4 million more people in 2034 specified – the figure that Johnson often quotes, even though these people are not nominated in the federal Medicade program.
Penal fines can also kill states that cover immigrant children and pregnant women with certain legal conditions – including temporary protected status and student visas – through a separate state children’s health insurance program. Some 21 states have opted to do so for children and six pregnant women.
But since the fine applies only to states that have expanded the Medicade, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, for example, but not Florida or Texas, Lyonardo Kuelo said, said the research professor at the Center for Children and Familys at the University of Georgeto. Most states will not be able to continue these alternative programs.
“States have a great encouragement to quit their coverage because there is a huge increase in option spending,” he said.
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