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Many lawfully present immigrants will be among the first people to lose Medicaid coverage under congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is expected to cut spending by more than $900 billion through 2034 for the state-federal health program for people with low incomes or disabilities. The law will strip many more immigrants of their Affordable Care Act plan subsidies and Medicare coverage next year.
On August 1, 39-year-old Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo died from suspected medical complications while in ICE custody. His death is one of 57 reported by ICE since President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025. This figure also reflects the highest reported death count in ICE custody in over a decade and is quadruple the number of deaths reported during the Biden administration.
In California, budget instability and concerns about rising costs are spilling into a debate over the controversial and expensive policy of allowing low-income immigrants without legal status to receive state-funded health coverage. Now, Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton present a stark choice to voters in the race to be the next governor. Both frame the choice as an economic one.
On May 21, 2026, the Trump administration issued a new policy requiring immigrants, including those in their Adjustment of Status periods, to apply for a Green Card in their home countries. As a result, the hundreds of thousands of applicants currently residing in the US may be at risk.
On March 1, a gunman fired into the crowd at a bar in Austin, TX, killing three people. The gunman, a US citizen born in Senegal, was wearing a shirt with an Iranian flag design and a sweatshirt that said “Property of Allah”. Some Texas Republicans have called the shooting an act of terror motivated by radical Islam and have demanded a ban on Muslim immigrants.
When she transitioned to working part-time last year, Rosa María Carranza counted on getting Medicare and Social Security checks. But Carranza and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrants will soon be cut out of Medicare. The GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed last July by President Donald Trump, barred certain categories of lawfully present immigrants from Medicare.