Hi there 👋🏾 Yes, you. The one telling people to "just apply for unemployment". Not everyone is eligible. In fact, some immigrants who are eligible can't or won't apply because it could impact their immigration applications, like for citizenship or renewal or status adjustment.
Remember that thing called "public charge"? Yeah, well while citizens can cash in on the stimulus and unemployment, immigrants get judged against an archaic rule that requires them to be "self-sufficient". Meaning they can't have claimed public benefits. https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/public-charge
Never mind that there is currently a pandemic, or that for many they fled violence, poverty, natural disasters, tragedy, extreme circumstances. So while y'all are experiencing financial insecurity for perhaps your first time, immigrants are resilient AF & been surviving crisis.
& the U.S. has consistently been holding immigrants up against unrealistic and biased standards of "American exceptionalism", that y'all are very clearly demonstrating is a LIE. Most of y'all would fail the "public charge" test.
Never mind that immigrants pay taxes, never mind that COVID19 is disproportionately affecting communities of color, never mind that many do not receive health benefits through their employers, never mind that immigrants are HUMAN BEINGS.
All that to say: Immigrants, especially undocumented folks, are fighting like hell right now, & they are abso-fucking-lutely deserving of dignity, life, & safety always, without question or conditions. Pay them. Protect them. Check your entitlement & privilege, ok?
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