KSBY ran a story on the phenomenon. It's an AP story, so sources quoted were out of county. "People who are not legal residents of the U.S. are not eligible... But many poor families include a mix of non-legal residents and legal ones, such as children who have citizenship because they were born in the U.S. In those cases, it is often an adult who is not a legal resident who submits the application.... Throughout the U.S., there are accounts of people resisting efforts of nonprofit organizations to sign them up for food stamps, letting benefits lapse or withdrawing from the program because of the perceived risk. 'They don't want to put their name and address on a form for a government public benefit out of fear that they'll be sought out and asked to leave'..."
http://www.ksby.com/story/35603032/fear-of-deportation-drives-people-off-food-stamps-in-us
4/7/17: The Independent carried a piece called Food for the Undocumented: Carp Farmers, Members of Indivisible Help Families Afraid to Re-Register for Food Stamps. "[A]ware that many low-income families were afraid to re-register for food stamps since President Donald Trump took office...[the participating farmers] agreed to provide at-cost organic produce boxes... Westbrook found 12 families, identified by a friend who is a social worker, to receive them."
http://www.independent.com/news/2017/apr/07/food-undocumented/
