{"id":21520,"date":"2020-03-26T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/?p=21520"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:39:00","slug":"nilc-statement-regarding-2-trillion-covid-19-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/2020\/03\/26\/nilc-statement-regarding-2-trillion-covid-19-package\/","title":{"rendered":"NILC Statement Regarding $2 Trillion COVID-19 Package"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
\n<\/strong>March 26, 2020<\/p>\n

CONTACT
\n<\/strong>Email: media@nilc.org<\/a>
\nJuan Gastelum, 213-375-3149
\nHayley Burgess, 202-805-0375<\/p>\n

National Immigration Law Center (NILC) Statement Regarding $2 Trillion COVID-19 Package<\/h1>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Late Wednesday evening, the U.S. Senate passed a $2 trillion deal to provide economic relief amidst the growing COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Marielena Hincapi\u00e9, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cSenate Democrats fought for key improvements from a prior version of the COVID-19 relief package introduced by Senate Republicans, who are operating with a \u2018business as usual\u2019 attitude in prioritizing corporations over people and continuing to demonize and exclude immigrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cNevertheless, this bill still falls woefully short of meeting the most basic health care and economic needs of millions of Americans. Immigrant workers and families who are paying taxes have been cut out from receiving a single dollar. While it provides for crucial unemployment insurance benefits and funding for medical care, the bill shamefully excludes millions of immigrants and their families from coverage for COVID-19 testing and treatment or economic assistance, even as many are on the front lines working to confront the pandemic. It is both reckless from a public health perspective and disgraceful that our congressional leaders are refusing to extend the same relief to immigrant communities, many of whose members will play an essential role in our recovery as a nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Senate Republicans now planning to leave for a month-long recess, we call on House Democrats to demand that the final legislation include crucial relief for immigrants. Since no other relief package appears imminent, the stakes are high for millions of low-wage workers and immigrants, who also need economic support and access to health care. Any deal that leaves them out jeopardizes us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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[vc_row el_class=”holder” css=”.vc_custom_1444345515294{margin-top: -75px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 26, 2020 CONTACT Email: media@nilc.org Juan Gastelum, 213-375-3149 Hayley Burgess, 202-805-0375 National Immigration Law Center (NILC) Statement Regarding $2 Trillion COVID-19 Package WASHINGTON \u2014 Late Wednesday evening, the U.S. Senate passed a $2 trillion deal to provide economic relief amidst the growing COVID-19 pandemic. Marielena […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21525,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions\/21525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}