“They are deserving of whatever relief money is available,” he says of those unemployed. “And we shouldn't be paying relief money to people who lost jobs that they were holding illegally in the first place."
Mehlman says FAIR is pleased U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark) has introduced legislation that would prohibit state and local governments from receiving federal coronavirus relief funds if they grant relief to illegal aliens.
His bill is a response to the Democratic-led House's massive $2.2 trillion CARES Act. “The good news is that it's not going anywhere in the Senate,” Mehlman says of the House-passed measure.
But Sen. Cotton at least took the effort here to make it clear to Nancy Pelosi, and the House Democrats, that this is not something that is going to go without a response.
