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Beginning this summer, the state of Utah will provide reparations to all crime victims, regardless of their immigration status. This reverses a six-year-old policy of denying such payments to undocumented immigrants. The statute on which such reparations are based does not make any mention of a person’s immigration status. The victim’s reparation board maintains that because the statute does not outline who can receive payments, the board can determine who can receive benefits. The board was finally won over by arguments from civil rights attorneys and immigrant advocates that when a person is a victim of crime, they are a victim regardless of their immigration status. Advocates also argued that denying payments to undocumented immigrants hurt their families, which often consist of US citizen children. Reparations for undocumented immigrants will be made only on a temporary basis, and the program will be reexamined after six months.
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