“Nearly 40,000 FAS migrants reside across the United States. Due to an error in the text of a 1996 law, access promised to the FAS migrants by the federal government to vital programs like Medicaid, school, and child nutrition programs were stripped. This left states like Hawai‘i, home to over 16,000 FAS migrants, forced to try to cover the gap of this unfunded Federal mandate,”

said Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

. “The Federal Government should live up to the spirit of the Compact of Free Association and fix this mistake.”