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| CHC in Davenport, Iowa |
Over the weekend, I learned third-hand that employees at a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in New Jersey had been told by management that the feds had forbidden them to treat undocumented immigrants.
That conclusion may be somewhat premature, but it’s grounded in abrupt and sweeping administrative action. In its latest barbaric assault on immigrants, the Trump administration has issued a series of orders banning access to most of the narrow range of federally funded benefits and programs not already off-limits to the undocumented - or to the many categories of lawfully present immigrants who are not “qualified aliens” (i.e., green card card holders, refugees, asylees and a few other categories*).
On July 10, three federal agencies — HHS, DOL and Education — issued notices (here is HHS’s) cutting off access for most non-green-card-holding immigrants to various benefits and services that had been excepted from a sweeping ban established in 1996. HHS’s list of benefits that will lose excepted status is as follows:
