US Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, has drawn a red line for Governors in all fifty states. Illegal Aliens are not eligible for unemployment benefits.
Chavez-DeRemer reminded the governors that employment authorization was a prerequisite to securing employment.
“Unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in our country illegally,” Chavez-DeRemer said.
Compliance with the directive, Chavez-DeRemer wrote, would be in line with President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum aimed at preventing illegal migrants from receiving social security benefits and his executive order aimed at preventing taxpayer dollars from incentivizing illegal immigration into the country.
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I’m not too concerned about my state, New Hampshire. One of the reasons why it traditionally has low unemployment – not “fiddled numbers” low – is that the unemployment benefits suck. You can’t live on them. They are minimized to maximize the likelihood of getting a job instead of milking a taxpayer-backed subsidy.
COVID bailouts might be the exception, and that experiment produced expected results. There was a lot of fraud. How much will never be known, but with the playing field back to normal, the Granite State has returned to its roots. These benefits are not a lifestyle choice.
We take a similar approach with other handouts, especially for able-bodied, working-age adults. Still, the Democrats are forever insisting that people capable of work are entitled to other people’s money.
The Trump Administration has different ideas. Americans who can work should be able to find work, and anyone skirting wage and labor laws by hiring illegals needs to stop – but that doesn’t mean unemployed alien invaders are entitled to unemployment benefits.
States that ignore the warning have been threatened with the loss of federal dollars.
Here’s an idea. What if the term federal dollars related to taxes solely for general government purposes is limited by the US Constitution? Everything else would be left to the states and the people.
I know, there are reams of laws and regulations passed by Congress to appropriate and distribute resources, and they’ll never roll all of that back. We can also expect the next round of lawsuits from blue states looking to get a robed radical to keep the spigots open, the law be damned. And that’ll happen.
And there’s no guarantee the US Supreme Court will agree that the law says what we think it says. That is, after all, a power they have given themselves and are loath to give back.
