November 04, 2021
A class of U.S. citizen children whose parents lack legal immigration status lost their suit over access to COVID-19 tax benefits when a Maryland federal judge ruled Thursday that Congress could deny funds to people without Social Security numbers.
February 09, 2021
Children who are U.S. citizens, and whose parents aren't, have a constitutional right to the $500 stimulus payments in the CARES Act that Congress didn't extend to them, attorneys in a proposed class action told a federal court.
January 19, 2021
Children of undocumented immigrants don't qualify for the $500 coronavirus relief payments provided by last spring's stimulus bill even though they are U.S. citizens, the federal government told a federal court.
June 22, 2020
A Maryland federal court can consider a suit alleging that the U.S. citizen children of unauthorized immigrant parents have been improperly denied coronavirus relief payments, the court said in rejecting the government's motion to dismiss.
May 05, 2020
U.S. citizen children of unauthorized immigrant parents have been improperly denied coronavirus relief aid, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in a Maryland federal court in the latest constitutional challenge to the requirements governing the financial assistance.