Children of Immigrants Lose Challenge for Virus Aid Payments (1)

Limits on emergency pandemic cash assistance didn’t violate the equal protection rights of U.S. children of immigrants, a federal district court judge in Maryland ruled.

Judge Paul W. Grimm of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland found Thursday that the children named as plaintiffs in the case had standing to sue. But he found the statute falls within Congress’s authority to legislate on immigration and that the plaintiffs hadn’t meaningfully responded to arguments from the government that the limits were based on efficiency during a pandemic emergency.

The CARES Act (Public Law 116-136) provided ...