Washington State Diverted $340M in Federal COVID Funds to Immigrants, Including Via $1,000 Checks
Fox News | 2/3/24 | Adam ShawA new report is highlighting how federal COVID funds were used in Washington state to give $1,000 checks to illegal immigrants who were ineligible to receive federal economic impact payments during the pandemic due to their immigration status.
The report, by the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), points to money administered by the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF), which was created by the American Rescue Plan Act and was intended to help state and local governments with their response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Washington state received $4.4 billion in funding overall from that program.
The report from the group, which calls for a smaller federal government, highlighted how $340 million in funding went to a program that sent $1,000 checks to illegal immigrants in the state. The funds, approved by the Washington state legislature in April 2021, provided “another round of funding for undocumented Washingtonians,” according to an impact report on the program said.
I wonder how they diverted enough Covid funds away from Fani’s perks to pay for this?
I bet a $thousand they’re also funding Antifa and BLM and most likely the Communist Party U.S.A.
And is this illegal?
Will anyone be prosecuted?
Answer the second question first.
Meanwhile, I knew a family that ran a small restaurant (about 4 employees) here in Washington state. They were forced to shut down for several weeks and the largest employer nearby forced mandatory telework for about 3000 employees. When said family applied for the COVID PPP loans they were denied. They were also denied unemployment, and any other “COVID relief funds”. They had to take a second mortgage on their home to pay the rent which was still due on the restaurant they couldn’t open. Had to trade in their nice modest cars for one complete beater. Almost lost everything. Ironically, one of the employees just got her American citizenship last week. She immigrated here legally.
It was Stalinesque the way they made stores close. On their say-so. Which no one had ever given them the power to do.