Gov. Gavin Newsom has launched a program providing $500 to immigrants without legal status who have been put out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic, but several state lawmakers want more.
Locked out of state unemployment benefits, hundreds of thousands of out-of-work immigrants are facing additional hurdles to tap into a new California program offering a $500 one-time payment during the COVID-19 pandemic to those without legal status.
Now, amid the problems, a group of legislators including state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo have called for an expansion of the program to better address the needs of underemployed and unemployed immigrants, proposing an additional $400 per week for eight weeks.“Phone lines and websites across the state crashed due to the volume of calls and inquiries,” Durazo said Tuesday, the second.
He noted that “despite the initial technical challenges ... over 6,500 applications have been opened statewide.”The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights received more than 1 million phone calls, forcing it to add a second line, according to executive director Angelica Salas. “We know that, with at least 2.4 million undocumented Californians, response to the … program has been unprecedented,” Salas said.In a Facebook post urging patience with the process, The Central American Resource Center said it received more than 50,000 phone calls Monday “that completely saturated our lines,” and noted that staff members understand the community’s frustration and “are doing the best we can.
“I have heard from several clients that they were not able to reach the local organization here in the Bay Area.”A recent study by the UC Merced Community and Labor Center estimates that some 289,000 immigrants without legal status have lost their employment in California.that emergency assistance for 150,000 immigrants would come from $75 million in taxpayer funds.
But some Democratic lawmakers say the initial allocation of money, while welcome, is not sufficient to meet the needs of immigrant families who have lost income because of the stay-at-home order.
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