Washington state used hundreds of millions of federal COVID relief funds to provide giveaways to the state’s illegal immigrant population, a new report has concluded.
In April 2021, the state legislature approved $340 million in funding as part of the Immigrant Relief Fund that, according to its annual report, was designed to provide “targeted community engagement, communications development efforts, and trusted messengers to encourage eligible community members to apply.”
However, what has only just emerged was that the money for that program came from the federally approved American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which provided $350 billion for local governments “to support their response to and recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency.”
The Economic Policy Innovation Center explained in its latest report:
Now, EPIC has discovered that the Biden Administration approved…
