Gov. Newsom authorized payments to immigrant workers as reconciliation for their snub by the president and Republican U.S. Senate.
Three years ago, President Trump complained to Fox News that California was “out of control.” What he meant was that the state was out ofTrump must have been asleep in his high school civics class when the teacher lectured about states’ rights and the 10Trump has been knocked down by federal courts a few times when he tried to force his will on California.
Trump and Republican senators insisted that immigrants without legal status be denied the $1,200-per-person virus payouts authorized in the $2.2-trillion federal stimulus package. Undocumented workers also aren’t eligible for unemployment benefits.. By government standards, it wasn’t much. But the one-time payments will help temporarily.
“In the healthcare sector, in the agriculture and food sector, in the manufacturing and logistics sector and the construction sector…“This is a state that steps up always to support those in need, regardless of status.” In 1994, Californians voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 187 to deny schooling, non-emergency healthcare and other public services to immigrants living here illegally. A federal judge ruled it unconstitutional.“They’re part of the fabric of what we are in the state,” says Kim Johnson, director of the state Department of Social Services. “We recognize their contributions to our society and that they, too, are burdened by our emergency health crisis.
In a PPIC poll last September, likely voters were asked whether they considered immigrants to be a benefit to California or a burden. Interviewers didn’t specify whether the immigrants were undocumented or here legally. The answers: 66% a benefit, 28% a burden. But 58% of Republicans considered them a burden.
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