𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 $𝟏𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐇𝐈𝐓 𝐁𝐘 𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐙𝐄𝐑𝐎 𝐎𝐅 𝐈𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌

After a federal Border Patrol surge — “𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦’𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘣” — swept the city last November, Charlotte, NC pledged $100,000 to help affected households.  - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman
The catch: 

to qualify, applicants needed a valid photo ID and 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — paperwork the largely-undocumented target families didn’t have. 

• In the end, just three households qualified...

𝐀 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. 

𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞.