California Tried to Bail Out Illegal Aliens - and It’s a Disaster

Article subtitle: 
Who knew that anonymously handing out $1,000 to criminals could go wrong?
Article author: 
Daniel Greenfield
Article publisher: 
FrontPage Mag
Article date: 
29 May 2020
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 
The Golden State is showing its brass with more unemployed people than the entire population of Alabama. So, California’s leaders decided that this was an urgent time to bail out illegal aliens.
 
California’s illegal alien population is its shadow economy and with many of the industries that employ them shut down, the Democrats who depend on ghost districts populated by illegals decided that something had to be urgently done to keep the illegal aliens from fleeing back across the border.
 
The Democrats figured that giving them checks would be cheaper than building a wall to keep them in.
 
But who knew that a $125 million stimulus program for illegal aliens would become such a disaster?
 
Illegal aliens were eligible to apply for up to $1,000 with $75 million coming from the California taxpayers bailing out illegals who don't pay taxes. And another $50 million was supposed to be donated by wealthy lefties. But while the taxpayers of the state were forced to put up their $75 million, the wealthy politically correct elites who have poured fortunes into electing Democrats didn’t pay up....
 
Illegal aliens are living in a place that is not their country. There’s no reason for them to be here, let alone be bailed out by California taxpayers, when 5 million Californians are unemployed....
 
The Seattle City Council, under Council President M. Lorena Gonzalez, passed a unanimous resolution calling for a fund of over $100 million for “undocumented Washingtonians"....
 
Maryland's 250,000 illegal aliens want their own stimulus plan. Pro-illegal alien activists in Phoenix held a rally demanding money for illegals. Two dozen Connecticut legislators have written a letter calling for a bailout for the state's 100,000 illegals. Massachusetts Democrats also desperately want to bail out their illegals....