Posted on 04/08/2021 8:47:57 AM PDT by Hojczyk
When the coronavirus arrived in New York City a year ago, it hit enclaves of undocumented immigrants with a fury, killing thousands and wiping out the service and construction jobs that kept many families afloat.
Lifelines like unemployment insurance and federal stimulus checks were out of reach because undocumented people are ineligible for most government aid. Instead, they have relied on food pantries, lenient landlords and loans from friends.
But after a sweeping move by lawmakers this week, New York will now offer one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who lost work during the pandemic. The effort — a $2.1 billion fund in the state budget — is by far the biggest of its kind in the country and a sign of the state’s shift toward policies championed by progressive Democrats.
“I’ve met neighbors who have not been able to pay rent, or put food on the table, or been able to provide their children with a laptop when a public school has not been able to provide one,” said State Senator Jessica Ramos, a Democrat from Queens and lead proponent of the fund.
New York’s fund dwarfs a similar relief program enacted in California, where officials set up a $75 million cash assistance program last year that gave undocumented immigrants a $500 one-time payment on a first-come, first-served basis.
It is hard to quantify the number of undocumented families living in New York, but the left-leaning Fiscal Policy Institute said Wednesday that the fund could benefit as many as 290,000 people statewide.
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Left the state in 1980 best thing I ever did..
NY’s (and indeed America’s) insane and corrupt leftist political schemes are funded by Fed.gov massive debt, and our printed, fiat Federal Reserve notes.
Sorry to be a cynic, but USA’s political system and its supporting cast of media, oligarchs, big tech, is now frozen in amber, so this scheme only ends when America faces a crash and debt crisis that it can’t print its way out of. I don’t believe “voting” will do it. Nov. 2020 proved that to me.
New York continues to screw over small business. Now giving huge money to illegal aliens and crumbs to business owners.
The running joke in New Jersey is that you put your home up for sale the day your youngest child graduates from high school. Your kids are all going to attend college in other states, and after graduating they're going to get jobs in other states, too.
Buying votes now using money we expect our grandkids to pay off from interest on National Debt, aka, indentured servitude, or economic slavery.
China will dump the debt it owns and the dollar will be worth nothing..just waiting for the right time...
Small bizzes need to leave NY and setup shop just across the border in a red state, enabling the biz to suck the business dollars right outta NY! Help them over the cliff!
Voting money on the move
That is more $$$ than I get in a whole year from Soc Sec.
Shift?!
ROTF!
It’s not a shift. It’s just that the other 49 were dumb enough to give Albany money.
More are going bust rather than leaving.
And NYS is still down at least a million jobs.
Treat people who break the law better than long time American citizens, now that makes sense and provides a good incentive to increase illegals.
When did “progressive” become synonymous with “complete insanity”?
These idiots just can’t help themselves.
Shift?!!?
How much more to the left can it shift?! It is already falling over the cliff (and has been for decades).
Sorry, not our problem. We are not responsible for the welfare of citizens of other countries. Send the bill to their home governments.
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