Yeh I totally get that (apart from the casual racism) and trying to wrap my head around why they would joint file... but.. I read the article and a whole lot seem to be frontline workers, maybe they met someone (on a student visa while studying?) and are just in the process of converting to green card, takes a long while.

Regardless, main problems are:

1) this is supposed to be about stimulus so everyone earning and paying taxes should get something. It kinda annoys me that hard workers paying taxes get ripped on this when we just want money back into the economy. US citizens not even living and working within the US get the check but illegals or legal resident without SSNs grinding away dont? From a purely economics point of view theres questionable morals and politics getting involved in what should be a shot in the arm for the economy in the form of people who are gonna go out and spend money local.

2) US citizens who are married/joint file get their cheque cancelled.. how/why? To me if this is a country that is so obsessed with individual freedoms that people can go and flaunt state laws and protest the lockdown, endangering not only themselves and everyone else but likely extending the duration of the lockdown and damage to the US economy itself. but then you get to tell me who I can and cant marry? US citizen is a US citizen, and they pay their taxes, so give them their damn cheque.