Immigrants afraid of Trump’s ‘public charge’ rule are dropping food stamps, MediCal

Cal Matters ^ | September 22, 2019 | Erica Hellerstein

[2ndDivisionVet]

Last month, Yuri sat in her dining room in San Jose, turned on the T.V., and heard something that made her sit up straight and sent her mind racing.

The Trump administration, the newscaster announced, had just published a new rule that could make it harder for immigrants to get a green card if they used, or were likely to use, public government benefits like food stamps or Medicaid.

Yuri, who came to the United States from Michoacán, Mexico, was enrolled in CalFresh, California’s food stamp program, for her 7 children, who range in age from just over a month to 15 and who all were born in this country. But with the new rule, Yuri, wondered, would staying on food stamps imperil her asylum application or get her deported? Would she and her family have to move back to Michoacán, one of the Mexican states with the worst cartel violence?

She decided to terminate food stamps for her kids and to dis-enroll herself from MediCal, despite some health complications she said accompanied her latest pregnancy. She worries, she said, about how she will keep her children’s bellies full without food stamps. But she doesn’t want the use of social service programs to put her at risk for deportation somehow.

[i_robot73]

Easiest ‘fix’ & won’t cost a DIME: govt defends & enforces our Rights, esp. that of theft & (economic) slavery.

IOW: terminate the welfare state in every shape, matter, form+

Course, MANY such ‘problems’ go the way of the dust-bin of History should the Constitution is FOLLOWED.

[Vaduz]

Parasites always want more.

[asinclair]

So many people are asking “Where is Daddy?” with regards to the seven children. I suspect that answer is that “Daddy” is the prick who paid her $5 for a quickie, or $20 for an all-nighter.

[Thank You Rush]

7 kids - and where is the father? Must be around some of the time!

[Thank You Rush]

“”one of the Mexican states with the worst cartel violence?””

Couldn’t end the article without getting that in. Pull on the heart strings!

[Thank You Rush]

“”one of the Mexican states with the worst cartel violence?””

Couldn’t end the article without getting that in. Pull on the heart strings!

[Thank You Rush]

Got distracted with getting dinner on the table - sorry for the duplicate.