Posted on 02/21/2024 7:36:58 AM PST by artichokegrower
It’s been 10 years since California decided to let low-income undocumented immigrants qualify for state subsidies of phone and internet services.
Today the California LifeLine program — which helps 1.2 million low income households get free or discounted services — still excludes hundreds of thousands of undocumented residents because they don’t have Social Security numbers.
Advocates say a decade is far too long for immigrants without legal status to be denied a crucial service. Cell phones have become vital for people to access social programs and health care, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Excerpt) Read more at calmatters.org ...
Till hell freezes over honey. California is broke.
The undocumented also need food, clothes, a house, furniture, lawn keepers, cleaning ladies, college tuition, automobiles, travel to visit family back home, life and health insurance…
How much longer to folks have to wait?
Oh, the utter inhumanity! You go to a country illegally and you don’t get cell phone subsidies. Whatever is this world coming to?
Boo chit
I see A-holes hawking subsidized phones all the time at Walmart, .99 cent stores, etc.
The sales people speak very good Spanish...
Cell phones have become vital for people to access social programs...
Further proof the wall should have started on Kalifornia’s east border.
Fetch me my clutching pearls and lead me to my feinting chair. Those poor poor invaders.
Good God. When China lands on Calironia’s shores in a full scale invasion Sacramento will be sure to get them drivers’ licenses and give them all obamaphones.
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