Rosa María Carranza worked with children in Oakland's forests for over 30 years. She paid tens of thousands of dollars into Medicare. Now, Congress is taking it away.

Carranza is one of an estimated 100,000 lawfully present immigrants — TPS holders, refugees, asylum-seekers, domestic violence survivors, trafficking victims — who will be stripped of Medicare coverage they earned and paid into, under the GOP's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" signed last year. 

Let's be clear about who these people are. They are not undocumented. They have legal status. They have work permits. They pay taxes. They have Social Security cards, driver's licenses, and decades of earnings records that prove their contributions to this country. Undocumented immigrants were already ineligible for Medicare — this law goes further, targeting people who followed the rules and built lives here legally.

Carranza left El Salvador during a civil war, worked overnight shifts caring for newborns, substitute-taught in public schools, and co-founded a Spanish immersion preschool. She earned her retirement. So did the hundreds of thousands of others like her — caregivers, farmworkers, teachers, and essential workers — who kept our communities running while paying into a system that is now turning its back on them.

This isn't just unfair. It's unprecedented. According to health policy experts, this is the first time in American history that Congress has taken Medicare away from any group. Not reduced it. Not restructured it. Taken it away — from people who already qualified, already enrolled, and already paid in.

Seniors who lose coverage will delay care. Doctors warn that means more heart attacks going untreated, more conditions left to worsen, more people arriving at emergency rooms in crisis. The human cost is predictable. The financial logic is cruel: saving $5.1 billion by 2034 on the backs of elderly legal residents who contributed far more than that.

We are calling on Congress to reverse the Medicare provisions of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" and restore coverage to lawfully present immigrants who earned it.

These people gave decades to this country. The least we can do is keep our end of the deal.

Sign this petition to demand Congress restore Medicare for legal immigrants who paid into the system.