Monica De La Cruz: “I think we can all agree that integrity and accountability are important when it comes to SNAP and other benefits.”

It is not based on your ethnicity? It is based on your risk?

the EPA's inability to expedite the approval process has been a big, big issue.

If there is a higher risk, that means there is a higher premium, correct?

In Hidalgo County, we are, again, 90-percent Hispanic, and we have a large population of automobile owners who come from Mexico and do not have insurance. Thus, it is not because we are Hispanic that we pay more.