position on illegal immigration<\/a> and guest worker programs has shifted dramatically to the left over the last decade, also wants Congress to \u201cguarantee\u201d health care for \u201cevery person, including undocumented immigrants.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\nSen. Cory\nBooker (D-N.J.) did not address the question of legalization, but said that\nanyone who is in the country and working in \u201cessential\u201d industries, such as\nfood production and health care, should be able to receive assistance funds.\nThe first COVID-19 relief bills allowed some legal immigrants to collect\nfinancial aid, but those without Social Security numbers, including illegal\nimmigrants, were not eligible. Saying he found it \u201coffensive\u201d that the law\ndenied funds to those with Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs),\nBooker said it is something which merits being challenged in the courts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The expedited\nlegalization of some 12 million illegal aliens will be used as an election\nissue, particularly in Arizona and Texas, which have large Hispanic\npopulations, LULAC National President Domingo Garcia told Ramos during the town\nhall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blatantly\nconflating Latinos and illegal aliens, Garcia contended, \u201cWe need to say that\nLatinos are essential workers, that there is not going to be food on your table\nif Latinos are all deported, especially immigrants those that are undocumented.\nThere may not be construction in your cities.\u201d LULAC, he said, will continue to\npressure Congress to, at the very least, give \u201cemergency temporary protective\nstatus\u201d to illegal aliens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is\nexpected that a Latino special interest organization like LULAC would willingly\nexploit a pandemic to achieve its political ends. But to have sitting members\nof the Senate actively pushing to legalize illegal workers at a time of\nrecord-level unemployment, particularly among the minority population whom they\nclaim to represent, is political pandering at its worst. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During a during a town hall co-produced by Univision and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), four current members of the Senate embraced an idea so far out of the mainstream that it is almost laughable. Three were former candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. The idea they were embracing is to provide<\/p>\n
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