Alabama: "undocument citizens" are disproportionately black
The Birmingham News reports: A new federal law designed to prevent illegal immigrants from signing up for Medicaid has kicked more than 5,000 people off the rolls in Alabama, but only 115 of them are Hispanic, according to state data.
Advocates for the poor argue that the new rule is hitting the wrong people - poor Americans.
More than 5,000 people have been terminated from Medicaid for failing to provide a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship, according to data from the Alabama Medicaid Agency. ...
Hispanics comprised 6 percent of the Medicaid rolls affected by the new rule, but they accounted for 2 percent of the patients dropped from Medicaid. Black Alabamians comprised 48 percent of the affected group and accounted for nearly 60 percent of the 527,400 who dropped. -- Medicaid rule hits citizens hardest- al.com
Comment: About 24% of Alabama's population is black, so among a group that is already disproportionately black, blacks are hit even harder by this "show me your papers" rule.