Advocates for low-income California immigrants exhaled a temporary sigh of relief as both Assembly and Senate Budget Committees voted to reject the Governor’s short-sighted and damaging proposals to eliminate safety net programs for legal immigrants. Over the past several weeks, Budget Committee members in Sacramento have been meeting with advocates to hear about how these [...]
For as long as I live, I will never forget Maria and her children. She left her home one day while her husband was at work, packed up what she could in her beat-up mini-van, took her children and left. Her first stop was the family service agency in a small city in northern California [...]
In response to federal cuts, California stepped up and developed three life-saving programs for lawful immigrants. These include the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP), and full-scope Medi-Cal for lawful immigrants who have been in the United States for fewer than five years. State legislators, both Democrats and Republicans, [...]
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