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2020-04-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-
California's Governor Newsom reveals $125million plan to give $500 checks to undocumented immigrants in the state to help them cope during Covid-19 crisis
  • California will be first state to offer cash to illegal immigrants as stimulus check

  • Immigrants will be offered $5000 apiece as part of a Disaster Relief Fund

  • Gov. Newsom expressed gratitude to migrants 'still addressing essential needs'
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-16 10:47|| || Front Page|| [20 views ]  Top

#1 What a lovely humanitarian gesture!

Did he pay for it himself, I wonder?
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-16 11:20||   2020-04-16 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 SMH.

"...the state will give the money to a network of regional nonprofits to find and vet potential recipients."

You can kiss that money good-bye, in more ways than one.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-16 11:29||   2020-04-16 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 to find and vet potential recipients

So illegal discovery and registration?
Gonna invite ICE to the courthouse steps again?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-16 11:45||   2020-04-16 11:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Give em one-way tickets south + a luggage set and a free Uber van ride to the Greyhound station
Posted by Lex 2020-04-16 11:51||   2020-04-16 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Literally giving taxpayer money directly to known criminals, how can this not be malfeasance and grounds for criminal charges? The figleaf of an intermediary is irrelevant given the stated intent. ?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-04-16 12:38||   2020-04-16 12:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder how many more CA residents this will cause to finally say 'fuck this noise - I'm outta here for good' over the ensuing months?
Posted by Raj 2020-04-16 13:51||   2020-04-16 13:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Just wait till he asks for a bail out.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-16 14:00||   2020-04-16 14:00|| Front Page Top

#8 how can this not be malfeasance and grounds for criminal charges

How?
It's California.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-16 14:03||   2020-04-16 14:03|| Front Page Top

#9  Just wait till he asks for a bail out.

Procopius2k nails it. California is already so deep in debt they can’t see the sky.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-16 16:19||   2020-04-16 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 No worries. We'll just raise our marginal state income tax rate again, up to 25 or 30%... whether you like it or not.
Posted by Gavin Noisome 2020-04-16 16:22||   2020-04-16 16:22|| Front Page Top

#11 'And because of our quarantine restrictions, you can never leave.'
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-16 17:36||   2020-04-16 17:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Just enough to buy a street gun.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-16 22:12||   2020-04-16 22:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Yet another reason we did the right thing to move out of that shithole six years ago.
Posted by Nero 2020-04-16 23:11||   2020-04-16 23:11|| Front Page Top

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