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Popular chairs, shelters for homeless people and California pre -school centers may continue to attend those who have no legal status, at least temporarily, according to a decision made today by a judge of the United States District Court in Rod Island.
In July, four federal agencies – education, justice, health and human services and work – ordered California to reject many immigrants access to public services funded with federal funds, such as medical assistance, Education and training for work. New standards apply to certain categories of immigrants, both to those who do not have legal status and to those who have it, as asylum seekers, or those who have student visas.
California quickly joined 20 states and Colombia County through Search Arguing that changes in policies were illegal. The decision, which is a precautionary, means that the federal government cannot implement new policies in these countries until the request is allowed, which may take months or years.
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“With today’s decision, vital education, nutrition and health programs such as Head Start and families that depend on their services, they can breathe peace,” said Nina Sheridan, a spokesman for California General Prosecutor. Head Start offers free pre -school education for low -income children throughout the country.
“The Trump administration continues to prevent California’s families who are only trying to survive, but we counteract it,” he said. “We appreciate that the District Court has completed this cruel new directive while our litigation continues.”
The four federal departments said in July that new policies are an effort to comply with one of Enforcement orders To Trump, who states that the social benefits promote illegal immigration. The enforcement order requires federal agencies to ensure that taxpayers are not financed by unknown foreigners.
A lawyer at the Ministry of Justice Sean Skwselevski said that new policies also reflect the proper interpretation of the federal law, despite the fact that the Ministry of Justice has been using a different interpretation for almost 30 years.
In Your written decision After the issued order of the preliminary court, the Federal Judge of Mary Mcleroi District expressed his skepticism on the legal argument of Skedzielewski. «(The federal) government claims that somehow this statute has incorrectly included in the almost thirties in which it was in force. According to him, all (from all previous administrations) misunderstood it from the beginning, at least until last month, when the government (the federal) clearly understood the correct way of interpreting it. “
Mcelroy writes that new policies that are now stopped would mean that “fewer people will receive critical resources against poverty, as immigrant communities avoid services, but also because generally people living in poverty sometimes have no state identification.”
Who is eligible to receive public benefits?
In 1996, the Congress approved a law that restricted the bigger part of the public benefits funded by the federal government for US citizens or who have a certain legal status, such as the permanent residence card. Subsequently, when it clarifies the law, the federal government found some exceptions.
Any person, regardless of their legitimate status, may gain access to a telephone service for a crisis and any minor who has undergone abandonment or abuse may obtain public assistance as these services are “needed to protect life and security”, according to The Federal Guide since 1996 which clarified the meaning of the law of the same year. Hostels for homeless people and victims of domestic violence, public hospitals and programs to support mental health or restore substance consumption are also available to all.
As a result of a Supreme Court’s decision Since 1982, the Federal Government has allowed all students under 18, despite their legal status, they have attended a public school. Immigrants without legal status can also gain access to a major start and enroll in adult education classes that include English as a second language and high school equivalence programs.
In Santa Clara County, which covers San Jose, approximately 40% of residents are born abroad and more than half of the children in the county have a father born abroad. The county receives about $ 3.7 billion in federal funds every year, most of which funds its public hospital system, according to Greta Hanson’s court statement, director of district operations.
Checking the legal status of patients is not feasible, he said, but even if it would have extremely harmful consequences and will deter people to seek the attention they need so much. ” If a person has a contagious disease but avoids seeking attention, for example, it can endanger the health of their entire community.
Although the new policies came into force in July, the health system has not yet rejected any patient. The countries in the request and the four federal departments have agreed to delay the implementation of new policies by September 11. Due to today’s preliminary court order, the promulgation of policies will take months or even years, and if the judge finally fails in favor of California, it may never come into force.
This is just one of the many demands that California has presented against the Trump administration for the treatment of immigrants. In an attempt to apply a different executive order of the President who requires federal departments to stop waste, fraud and abuse The United States Ministry of Agriculture (USDA) has asked California to share personal information about people who receive food coupons.
In July Attack families of mixed immigration status where US citizens can have a foreign relative. California also filed a case against the Trump administration for Deployment of the National Guard After federal immigration raids, protests in Los Angeles this summer.
Total California has been judging or joining other states to judge the federal government approximately 40 times by the possession of the president. During the first government of Trump, California filed a lawsuit against the President 123 times and He won approximately two -thirds of these casesS
Many of the requests submitted this year have already led to precautions that temporarily arrest the new Trump administration policies, but immigrants’ defenders say, however, the president’s actions have influenced.
Many Californians, including legal status, avoid public services out of fear. Some have Fear to even leave homeS
At the Huntington Beach School, director Steve Couriel commented that few immigrants were attending English hours this summer. He commented that he had heard that other public schools were watching the same trend.
Education reporter Carolyn Jones contributed to this story.
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