{"id":400238,"date":"2021-04-08T13:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=400238"},"modified":"2021-04-08T13:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:58:20","slug":"new-york-will-spend-2-1-billion-to-give-15600-checks-to-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-will-spend-2-1-billion-to-give-15600-checks-to-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Will Spend $2.1 Billion to Give $15,600 Checks to Illegal Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-will-spend-2-1-billion-to-give-15600-checks-to-illegal-immigrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=400238&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.777777777778\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Taxpayer-funded direct payments divide Dems<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-937.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-936.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rsz_gettyimages-1231475075-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rsz_gettyimages-1231475075-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rsz_gettyimages-1231475075-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rsz_gettyimages-1231475075-1-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs\">\n\t\t\t\tNew York state capitol building \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" rel=\"author\" class=\"text-red-700\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 April 8, 2021 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"88.645104120514\">\n<p>New York is set to spend $2.1 billion on direct payments of up to $15,600 to illegal immigrants who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the state legislature approved the &#8220;excluded workers fund&#8221; as part of the state&#8217;s $212 billion budget on Tuesday. Roughly 92,000 illegal immigrants are eligible to receive a one-time payment of $15,600 through the program, while hundreds of thousands of others will receive $3,200, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after national Democrats failed on their promise to send $2,000 checks to legal Americans, instead settling for $1,400.<\/p>\n<p>The fund has caused turmoil among state Democrats, as five Democrats voted against the budget in the state senate. Progressive lawmakers have since accused moderate Democrats of racism for expressing concern with the taxpayer-funded provision. Brooklyn state senator Jabari Brisport, a self-described socialist who has compared capitalism to slavery,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JabariBrisport\/status\/1379166199288786947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Monday that he would no longer work with Democratic legislators who &#8220;enable racists&#8221; by opposing the fund.<\/p>\n<p>New York Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs admonished Brisport, calling the accusations of racism &#8220;wrong, plain and simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To assume that one&#8217;s political disagreement with spending any amount of money\u2014no less $2.1 billion\u2014on a program to give undocumented, non-taxpaying, off-the-book workers a humanitarian grant is motivated by racism and not economics is unjustified, uncalled for, unfair, and unbecoming of any public official elected in a democratic system that survives on the decency of civil public discourse,&#8221; Jacobs said.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal activists protested outside of Governor Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s office in the days leading up to the budget passage. The embattled Democratic governor praised the fund for its &#8220;compassion&#8221; during a Wednesday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>In order to receive the $15,600 payment, illegal immigrants must prove that they reside in the state, are not eligible for federal unemployment due to their legal status, and lost income during the pandemic. New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (R.), who announced a gubernatorial run Thursday, criticized the fund for prioritizing &#8220;ex cons&#8221; and &#8220;illegal immigrants&#8221; over &#8220;hard working&#8221; New Yorkers in a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leezeldin\/status\/1379157800220299266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayer-funded direct payments divide Dems  New York state capitol building \/ Getty Images  Collin Anderson \u2022 April 8, 2021 1:30 pm New &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311869,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-937.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"New York Will Spend $2.1 Billion to Give $15,600 Checks to Illegal Immigrants","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-937.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"New York Will Spend $2.1 Billion to Give $15,600 Checks to Illegal Immigrants","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}