{"id":2459,"date":"2020-04-03T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2020-04-03T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:35:00","slug":"the-missing-piece-in-the-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-relief-for-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"The missing piece in the coronavirus stimulus bill: Relief for immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The bill, known as the CARES Act, delivers direct payments to most taxpayers, vastly expands unemployment benefits, and makes testing for the virus free, among other provisions. But although unauthorized immigrants are no more immune from the effects of the current crisis, the stimulus bill conspicuously leaves them out in the cold \u2014 potentially putting them at greater economic and health risk, and impeding public health efforts to stop the spread of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/3\/16\/21181560\/coronavirus-tips-symptoms-us-covid-19-testing-immunity-reinfection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coronavirus<\/a>.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;\u201cThose who cannot obtain relief are likely to continue going out and trying to earn a living, at the risk of themselves and spreading the virus to others,\u201d Theresa Cardinal Brown, director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Institute, told Vox. \u201cThe cost of providing this benefit to them has to be weighed against the need to keep up the restrictions to stop the virus spread.\u201d&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/1\/21197017\/immigrants-coronavirus-stimulus-relief-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/1\/21197017\/immigrants-coronavirus-stimulus-relief-bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The bill, known as the CARES Act, delivers direct payments to most taxpayers, vastly expands unemployment benefits, and makes testing for the virus free, among other provisions. But although unauthorized immigrants are no more immune from the effects of the current crisis, the stimulus bill conspicuously leaves them out in the cold \u2014 potentially putting them at greater economic and health risk, and impeding public health efforts to stop the spread of coronavirus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u201cThose who cannot obtain relief are likely to continue going out and trying to earn a living, at the risk of themselves and spreading the virus to others,\u201d Theresa Cardinal Brown, director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Institute, told Vox. \u201cThe cost of providing this benefit to them has to be weighed against the need to keep up the restrictions to stop the virus spread.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,167],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}