Republican Arkansas U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R) has proposed banning illegal immigrants from receiving relief checks.
Foreign nationals who entered the United States illegally are not eligible to receive the latest round of bailout cash checks. The Senate voted 58 to 42 late in the evening to approve Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas’s proposal to ban illegal immigrants from receiving bailout checks. The proposal would not affect families who are eligible but have different immigration status.
Cotton and Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) have teamed up on a fiscal year 2021 amendment that would prohibit non-illegal immigrants from receiving government-issued cash checks for relief.
However, families who are eligible for relief checks but have Family members who include illegal immigrants would not be affected. To receive a bailout check, a person must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder with a social security number.
Younger said the purpose of the proposal is to assist American people struggling with Food problems during the Epidemic, not to be given to people who entered the United States illegally. He said the amendment would ensure that relief checks, funded by taxpayer tax dollars, would not fall into the hands of illegal immigrants who violate immigration laws.
In the Senate’s evening vote on the 4th, eight Democratic senators voted in favor of Cotton and Younger’s proposal: Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Senator John Manchin of West Virginia, and Senator John Hickenlooper of the United States. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Gary Peters (D-MI), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AL), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Jon Tester (D-MI). Tester (R).
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