Some U.S. citizens aren’t eligible for stimulus checks — because they’re married to immigrants
The coronavirus stimulus package was meant to put emergency spending money into the economy, issuing a $1,200 check to most Americans that they can use to pay their bills in this time of hardship, and help stimulate businesses in the process. Now, though, we’re learning about all the strings that are coming attached to that hastily passed package — including the fact that U.S. citizens aren’t eligible to receive the money if they’re married and filed taxes jointly with an immigrant who doesn’t have a social security number.

The LA Times reports that there are more than a million Americans in this position across the country. This is just one more way the Trump administration has found to attack immigrants, no matter how they arrived in this country.

According to the Times, the stimulus bill doesn’t just pass over immigrants who don’t pay taxes. Any immigrant without a social security number — even if they have a tax ID and pay U.S. taxes — can render their entire family ineligible to receive any money

This isn’t about documented versus undocumented immigration, either. Immigrants to the U.S. receive a social security number only when they receive a work permit, which means there are a whole host of visas immigrants can use to come to the country perfectly legally (student or fiancé visas, for example) that won’t get them a work permit or a social security card. For people on non-work visas, it’s impossible to obtain a social security number until obtaining permanent resident status, which is a whole other process that takes a ton of paperwork, a ton of money, and months or even years of waiting, depending on how backed up the system was at the time they applied. The LA Times interviewed a number of people who are in the middle of the months-long process of applying for a legal green card, whose families won’t receive stimulus checks because of it.

For the Trump administration (and, let’s be real, Republican lawmakers) to deny families much-needed stimulus money for this reason is nothing but another baseless attack on people who come to live in the U.S., no matter how they do it.

For all their spouting that they have no problem with immigration as long as it’s done “the right way,” this stimulus check provision is proof that that’s not what Trump and GOP lawmakers think at all. They just hate immigrants, and now, by default, American citizens who associate with them

In response to this, California has announced its own stimulus plan, offering grants of up to $500 for individuals and $1,000 for families, meant to help immigrants without legal status get through this crisis. But immigrants who do have legal status, but aren’t able to work in the U.S.? The government is leaving those people (and their families) out of help, and it’s heartbreaking.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/u-citizens-married-immigrants-blocked-145343198.html

$1,200 check When an average monthly rent in USA is $850.

No good news around the world.
Lord have mercy

helinues:
$1,200 payout When average monthly rent in USA is $850.

Pele ti e, Atlanta landlord. Fault finding hypocrite. How much has your own vegetable-god here given you

Evidence that this thing called Trump has killed economy's of America.
The bastard can't even justify his irrationality action against the immigrants. This unfortunate being will never stop xenophobia.

helinues:
$1,200 check When an average monthly rent in USA is $850.

Can you imagine this clown who has not received a Kobo from his own government criticizing a government that actually gave all her citizens 1200 dollars? Is this not stupidity of the highest order?

Why naah?

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I thought President Trumps Parents are immigrants ,why does he hate immigrants does he want to remove the U.S dollar as a global currency.

OP what’s your problem? Why not remove the log in your very eyes. How much have you got from your own lifeless government?

Hmmm

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Another dose of Trump insanity.

The world can't have a leader like Trump without going into pandemic, it's no coincidence.

Lipscomb:
Evidence that this thing called Trump has killed economy's of America.
The bastard can't even justify his irrationality action against the immigrants. This unfortunate being will never stop xenophobia.

Shut up and talk about your own country.