US citizens with immigrant spouses file lawsuits to get coronavirus checks they were denied under the current law that excludes immigrants who pay taxes with an Individual Tax Identification Number and not a Social Security number. - NBCLatino
Rep. Jesus"Chuy' García, D-Ill., said in a news conference Tuesday,"imagine being denied financial stimulus assistance simply because of the status of your spouse. Imagine U.S. children denied assistance because the parents are undocumented, all of them more likely to have a tough financial situation."An estimated 9.9 million immigrants are living in the U.S. without work authorization,. They live with about 3.744 million children and 1.746 million spouses who are U.S.
“What this does is punish the citizen as well as the citizen kids and that’s a problem,” said Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of MALDEF. “This is an issue of basic fairness and the Constitution supports basic fairness when it comes to issues of family and marriage.”
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