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Call Your Senator: We Need a COVID-19 Relief Bill That Includes Immigrant Families
Posted on Jul 30 2020
We need a new COVID-19 relief bill now. The national moratorium on eviction for non-payment of rent expired July 24. The federal supplement to unemployment insurance has ended, too. Without these vital supports, tens of millions of people are at risk of hunger and homelessness right now. Congress must pass a new COVID-19 relief bill—and this time they must include immigrant families.
We are all in this together. That means we are all harmed when immigrants are excluded from COVID-19 relief and from our health care system. The laws that Congress has enacted to respond to the COVID-19 so far leave immigrant families out of critical programs. Among the most important lessons of this pandemic is that we are all interdependent. Health care and economic stimulus policies that exclude immigrants leave us all vulnerable.
We need legislation that supports basic needs for immigrants and their families, and eliminates barriers to health screenings and treatment in Medicaid. The House of Representatives included immigrant families in passing the HEROES Act for COVID-19 Relief. We need the Senate to do the same.
Take one minute to ask your Senator to do the right thing: pass a COVID health and stimulus bill that includes immigrant families, to ensure that we are all safe, healthy, and have the economic means to thrive.