What some people also don’t realize is that even newly documented people don’t qualify for federal programs because of old antiquated “public charge” laws. Although the regulation is changing soon (albeit not enough), it’s still very much based on the racist, classist, and outright wrong arguments of “welfare queens” and “people taking advantage the system” that remains highly politicized today.
I shudder to think of the tens of millions of Covid-19 doses that the U.S. wasted -- expired because of stockpiling, mismanagement and a population that resisted it.
What some people also don’t realize is that even newly documented people don’t qualify for federal programs because of old antiquated “public charge” laws. Although the regulation is changing soon (albeit not enough), it’s still very much based on the racist, classist, and outright wrong arguments of “welfare queens” and “people taking advantage the system” that remains highly politicized today.
I shudder to think of the tens of millions of Covid-19 doses that the U.S. wasted -- expired because of stockpiling, mismanagement and a population that resisted it.