Immigration activists warned of the damage to millions of families who do not receive financial aid for coronavirus.
In addition, these people are outside the tests and treatments of COVID-19, which further violates their situation.
The $ 2.2 trillion of stimuli Approved by Congress thus far in response to the coronavirus crisis provide testing and treatment to anyone who is eligible for federal Medicaid.
However, that does not include more than 10 million undocumented or up to four million carriers of Green card who have been in the country less than five years.
Activists also regretted the exclusion of one million immigrants found in the country under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) programs, despite the fact that more than 330,000 of them are part of the basic pandemic workforce.
“For weeks and weeks, advocates have been lobbying Congress to extend (coverage) to emergency Medicaid,” he said. Manar Waheed, legislative and defense adviser to the ACLU, according to a report by The Hill.
The Democratic representatives of California, Tony Cardenas and Linda Sanchez They presented a bill for testing and treatment against COVID-19, regardless of people’s immigration status.
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