Posted on 03/31/2021 5:12:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
Democrats in New York are working on creating a fund that would give some illegal aliens and ex-convicts more than $27,000 apiece in direct payments for financial hardships related to the coronavirus pandemic.
Politico reported Tuesday that Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is in talks with state lawmakers to create something called the Excluded Workers Fund, which would offer direct payments to “undocumented immigrants and formerly incarcerated individuals” who missed out on work opportunities amid the pandemic.
“Right now discussions are around eligibility and access,” Democratic state Sen. Jessica Ramos told the outlet.
The state would set aside $2.1 billion for the Excluded Workers Fund, which would offer $600 in unemployment back pay for each week eligible individuals in New York were unemployed from March 27 until July 31, 2020.
An additional weekly payment of $300 would be paid to those unemployed from Aug. 1 of last year through this coming September, Politico reported.
Under the state Senate’s plan, illegal immigrants and people who have been released from prison since October 2019 would be eligible for the big payouts, as Democratic lawmakers believe these individuals were not able to establish a requisite work history that would make them eligible for unemployment benefits.
Some illegal immigrants and ex-convicts could see an immediate payment of $20,700, with an additional $6,600 coming later.
Vanessa Agudelo of the New York Immigration Coalition praised the proposition.
“This level of investment is absolutely historic for our communities,” Agudelo told Politico. “It’s the biggest investment any state has made to provide this level of relief to those workers who have been excluded from those unemployment benefits as well as what’s been passed in the stimulus package.”
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That dough is being ripped out of the wallets of all the red states taxpayers !!!
How much in Federal Funds did they plead for???
How much are they going to pay all the women he (Cuomo) harrassed?
obviously no good reason for this.
I think we have officially passed the awkward stage.
Why not? We bailed them out.
They all should be removed from offi e by force, jailed, and tried or treason and theft, misappropriation of funds. Illegal transfer of public monies to foreign illegal aliens.
This is theft from the public given to illegal foreign invaders.
Investment?
Part of me is relishing this. BLM is getting screwed over.
I am so glad we have moved out of that literally God forsaken hell hole of a state.
It’s definitely not too early to shoot the bastards.
Thank you biden for bailing out New York. We are living in desperate times. It is getting worse each day.
Bkmk
Gotta buy them votes dontcha know as 2022 is just around the corner.
WOW
it pays to be a crook.
Whowouldathunk.
Unfreakinbelievable.
I am patiently waiting for the day I can move out of this State.
Patiently.
Keeps showing they don’t care another American people.
US citizens need not apply.
Isn’t Cuomo still popular?
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