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The line coming from the anti-migrants is that they aren’t against all immigrants, just the “illegal” ones but a New York State Court of Appeals decision takes a blow at some legal immigrants and their access to aid when they are elderly and or disabled.

Thousands of impoverished elderly, disabled or blind legal residents of New York State, including refugees, will be limited to $352 a month in public aid — about half of what lower courts have said they should get — under a decision by the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court.

The 5-to-2 decision, rendered on Tuesday, overturned the rulings of two lower courts, which had held that under the state and federal Constitutions, such legal residents could not be denied a higher level of benefits simply because they were not citizens. On narrower grounds, the high court held that the state had no duty to fill in for a federal program that had stopped benefits to most disabled legal immigrants in 1996

See the benefits of waiting in line and being a “good” immigrant? Too bad many of those legal immigrants who were plaintiffs in this case died.

Via / NYT