Activists push Democrats to give stimulus checks to 9M taxpaying noncitizens
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter |
| February 12, 2021 06:55 AM
Democrats face pressure from immigration activists to provide pandemic relief checks to millions of immigrants who are illegally residing in the United States but pay taxes.
Behind the scenes, left-leaning advocacy groups and nonprofit organizations are pushing to get $1,400 checks, including in major pandemic relief legislation not only for the 2.2 million U.S. citizen children who were excluded from the two previous checks but 9.3 million adults who pay billions of dollars in federal taxes. Altogether, the measure could cost the federal government $13 billion.
The National Immigration Law Center, Church World Services, and Service Employees International Union are leading efforts to whip Senate Democrats into adding language for the checks into the pandemic relief legislative package.
The move is not expected to succeed but could complicate negotiations within the Democratic Party in the coming weeks.
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