Progressive advocates for illegal immigrants are pressing for an expansion of New York State's $2.1 billion giveaway of subsidies to illegal immigrants who are otherwise ineligible for government relief.
Passed last April as part of the New York State budget, the "Excluded Worker Fund" has provided one-time payments as high as $15,600 to illegal immigrants who have been able to document that they lost work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The New York Times described the Excluded Worker Fund as "By far the biggest of its kind in the country and a sign of the state's shift toward policies championed by progressive Democrats." But evidently, the fund is not big enough as far as the progressive advocates for illegal immigrants are concerned.
"To date, the state has distributed just over two-thirds of the fund, to about 128,000 people, a fraction of the nearly 351,000 claims that were received," the New York Times reported on October 19th. What else would you expect from yet another poorly conceived progressive Democrat program? Demand for the illegal immigrant subsidies has outstripped the money available to pay for them.
Meeting the "Actual demand" from a rapidly increasing number of illegal immigrants residing in New York will be an endless exercise, at least for as long as the Biden administration's open border and catch and release policies remain in place.
"At least 160,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the U.S., often with little to no supervision, by the Biden administration since March - including a broad use of limited parole authorities to make more than 30,000 eligible for work permits since August," Fox News reported, based on Border Patrol documents Fox News obtained.
The Biden administration is adding to the number of illegal immigrants in New York by flying unaccompanied illegal minors to New York State.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/progressives-demand-more-giveaways-illegal-joseph-klein/
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