
NYC Mayor de Blasio defends $2B COVID relief fund for illegal immigrants
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended New York's proposed $2.1 billion fund for jobless people including illegal immigrants.
"So my answer is yes, this is important to do because these are families, these are human beings who are part of our community, part of our life," he continued. "They have been suffering without a lot of the help other people have gotten. This is part of how we recover together, so I do think it was the right thing to do." When asked whether including undocumented immigrants in the Excluded Workers Fund was the right decision amid a surge of migrants at the U.S. southern border, de Blasio stressed the "root cause" of illegal immigration from Northern Triangle countries, which are Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.More Related News