Trump’s Labor Department to Revoke Federal Funds from States Giving Unemployment Benefits to Illegals
John Binder, Breitbart, April 28, 2025
President Donald Trump’s Labor Department is vowing to revoke federal grant money from states that willfully give unemployment benefits to illegal aliens.
In a letter to states, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer makes clear that her office will carry out Trump’s executive orders titled “Preventing Illegal Aliens from Obtaining Social Security Act Benefits” and “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders.”
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An investigation released in 2022 by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) found that sanctuary states like New York and Colorado used the Chinese coronavirus pandemic to open unemployment benefits to illegal aliens — paid for by American citizens.
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The sanctuary state of California has routinely attempted to pass legislation that would provide jobless illegal aliens with a right to unemployment benefits.
