L.A. Times editorial on “The anti-immigrant rebate”
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Some taxpayers won’t get stimulus checks because of the status of a foreign-born spouse, says this L.A. Times editorial in this morning’s Opinion section.
‘Call someone anti-immigrant for opposing public services for non-citizens, and chances are you’ll be corrected. It’s anti-illegal-immigrant, you’ll be told, not anti-immigrant. To some extent, that’s true. But the arcane rules of the new economic stimulus package, which keep tax rebates from going to many legal residents and even citizens, show that the realities of immigration policy are more complicated, and more hostile to the foreign born, than such an answer implies.’
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City