{"id":249071,"date":"2026-04-02T21:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249071\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:55:14","slug":"thousands-of-immigrants-lawfully-in-california-set-to-lose-calfresh-benefits-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249071\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of immigrants lawfully in California set to lose CalFresh benefits \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was <a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/education\/early-childhood-education-pre-k\/thousands-of-immigrants-lawfully-in-california-set-to-lose-calfresh-benefits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">originally published by LAist<\/a> on April 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of immigrants who are lawfully in California are set to lose their food assistance benefits, known as CalFresh, starting this month.<\/p>\n<p>The new restrictions stem from H.R. 1 \u2014 also known as the \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d \u2014 which Congress passed last year.<\/p>\n<p>The changes remove eligibility for certain\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdss.ca.gov\/benefits-services\/food-nutrition-services\/calfresh\/frequently-asked-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">noncitizens<\/a>, including people with refugee status and victims of trafficking. It also applies to immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan who have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/crs-product\/R43725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">special immigrant visas<\/a>\u00a0for helping the U.S. government overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThese are folks \u2026 many of whom have large families that we have a commitment to as a country because we welcomed them and invited them here to find a place of refuge,\u201d said Cambria Tortorelli, president of the International Institute of Los Angeles, a refugee resettlement agency. \u201cThey\u2019re authorized to work and they\u2019ve been brought here by the U.S. government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The federal spending bill, H.R. 1, made sweeping cuts to social safety net programs, including food assistance and Medicaid. In signing the bill, President Donald Trump said the changes were delivering on his campaign promises of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/releases\/2025\/07\/president-trumps-one-big-beautiful-bill-is-now-the-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">America first<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials estimate 23,000 people in Los Angeles County will be affected. The state estimates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lao.ca.gov\/Publications\/Report\/5126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">about 72,000 immigrants<\/a>\u00a0with lawful presence will be affected across California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article was originally published by LAist on April 1, 2026. Thousands of immigrants who are lawfully in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-249071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}