ICYMI: Sue Altman Wanted Illegal Immigrants To Receive Taxpayer-Funded COVID Relief
Sue Altman just can’t stop trying to rewrite history. Before running for Congress, Altman supported illegal immigrants receiving taxpayer-funded COVID relief funds. Now, she is laughably blaming Republicans for Biden’s Border Crisis.
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Swing State Dem Wanted Illegal Immigrants To Receive Taxpayer-Funded COVID Relief
Meaghan Blonder
4/19/2024
Before she ran for Congress, Sue Altman (D., N.J.) wanted illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded COVID relief funds. Now, Altman says it’s Republicans’ fault that the border crisis—which has exploded during President Joe Biden’s administration—hasn’t been solved.
Altman, the presumptive Democratic nominee for New Jersey’s hotly contested Seventh Congressional District, called to make illegal immigrants eligible for financial COVID relief during her time as state director of the progressive New Jersey Working Families Party.
Altman appeared in an October 2020 interview on a show called “Activista Rise Up” with Patricia Campos-Medina, who is now a long shot Democratic candidate for Senate in New Jersey. There, Altman shared her support for illegal immigrants and their children during the COVID-19 pandemic and called on state and federal governments to give stimulus checks to those who were “cut out” of other financial relief programs during the economic shutdown.
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The Working Families Party also advocated for financial relief for illegal immigrants under Altman’s direction. In a July 2020 post, the party touted an encampment formed at the New Jersey state house in protest in favor of “recovery for all” from the pandemic’s economic downturn. The party also linked to information for residents to lobby legislators to “bring COVID relief legislation that will provide stimulus-like payments to undocumented immigrant taxpayers for a vote.”
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