Posted on 06/01/2023 9:43:02 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The California Senate on Tuesday voted to pay $300 weekly checks to unemployed illegal immigrants even as the state faces a roughly $31.5 billion deficit and mass illegal immigration.
Democratic state senators passed Senate Bill 227 by Sen. María Elena Durazo (D.) with a 30-7 vote, sending the measure to the Assembly for approval. The legislation would offer undocumented aliens up to 20 weeks of unemployment benefits if they meet minimal work requirements. California’s unemployment insurance fund, which was defrauded of some $31 billion during the COVID-19 pandemic, would be in charge of dispensing the checks. California employers are on the hook for the fund’s $20 billion debt in the form of higher payroll taxes that threaten employee-heavy small businesses and restaurants already devastated by California Democrats’ strict COVID-19 lockdowns.
Under SB 227, unemployment fund officials would be barred from asking for claimants’ social security number eligibility or contacting past or present employers to verify their job status. Instead, applicants would self-attest that they meet the requirements for the weekly checks: having earned at least $1,300 or worked at least 93 hours over three months. Acceptable documentation would include tax returns, transaction logs on payment apps, and receipts that show a commuting pattern.
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Why not just hand the homeless cash to burn in trash barrels to stay warm at night?
Why?
So they won't commit (as many) crimes.
The 30 Demonicrat state senators in California should be tried and convicted of giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States, and sentenced to become one-time rope testers.
Obviously california is a socialist state. Why are there not federal laws against this sht? Oh ,wait. I know. Its part of the plan to “buildbackbetter”.
The left doesn’t care. They want to destroy this country so either way they will. They’ll spend us to death, or push things so far that we start a civil war.
If we have a great awakening, that would be the only peaceful means of reversing course.
Some real critical thinking there. Self fulfilling prophecy.
Well California voted for it, who am I to disagree.
you said..”cash to burn in trash barrels to stay warm”
O.. that’s coming , it’s just still in committee.
The only thing they should get is forcibly put on a bus and deported.
If all the illegals go there for their “unemployment benefits”, and all the gimmidats go for their “reparations”, it would be a shame as other areas would lack the richness of diversity.
I remember working full time for that (and then paying taxes.)
Dear Californians, look what your voting costs you.
Always money for ILLEGAL aliens. And as always the Californicators will complain there isn’t enough money for schools, homeless, and every other welfare program. But we’ll find money for illegal aliens who haven’t paid a penny in to the system.
So, illegals will make more than some retirees living only on Social (In)Security?
Death to the left.
No, make that a long and painful death to the left.
“Instead, applicants would self-attest that they meet the requirements ...”
My name is Jaun Valdez, and I’m an illegal living in San Diego and I lost my job due to the floods.
Where are my flood and unemployment checks?
I wonder how many of her relatives will benefit from this?
Another reason for taxpayers to leave California and illegals to move there.
Get several of those buses & put the California Democrats on board with the illegals when they head back to the border.
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