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The proposed Safety Net for All Workers Act, or SB 227, would give laid-off illegal migrants $300 a week for up to 20 weeks in the state of California.
The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors saw no problem with the bill and unanimously adopted a resolution in support of it back in March.
“We cannot take people’s money, take people’s taxes, take people’s labor, and then deny them the very benefits and rights that they deserve and that they have earned,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at a protest that took place before the board meeting.
There are many problems with this starting with how were these illegals employed in the first place.
Not all Californians see it the way the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors do and they are pushing back.
“When the governor and the Democrat super-majority is sending out the message of come to California, get free money, you don’t have to work, that’s just going to draw more and more illegal immigrants to our state,” State Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R told Brian Kilmeade Wednesday on Fox News.
“And that’s the message that we’re trying to stop in its tracks right now before it spreads to the rest of the country.”
Mike Diaz, a legal immigrant and California resident, argued against the proposal calling it unsustainable.
He also highlighted the fact that this type of legislation is the reason California residents are fleeing California for red states. These expensive progressive policies are killing the once-great state.
“You think that after COVID, where we paid people not to work – and that’s exactly what they did, not work – what do we think is going to happen with giving this money to illegal immigrants that are unemployed?” Diaz said during “Fox & Friends First” this week. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”
“The governor has already told us… we don’t have the money. We’re already in a $31 billion deficit. We just do not have the money,” he continued.
The state Unemployment Insurance system takes in $485 million a year from payroll taxes on illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the proposed program could cost the state $356 million per week.
“It’s unbelievable,” Jones said. “California Republicans, we’re fighting like hell here in California against this Democrat supermajority, and this is just one more issue that we’ve got to fight every single day… This program could cost up to $2 billion every year for as long as the Democrat supermajority wants to have it in place.”
“I think what’s going to happen is they’re going to run this up the flagpole again,” he said. “And I think they’re going… to trump the veto from the governor, and I think they’re going to maybe make this happen. I don’t know, that’s what it looks like to me.”
“I hope it doesn’t happen, but you never know these days with the legislature,” he continued. “This is the reason that folks, 200 plus thousand a year are leaving California, is exactly because of this.”
It will be interesting to see whether the Senate Appropriations Committee kills or advances the bill after reviewing it today.
