Cruz proposing amendment to coronavirus relief package barring illegal immigrants from receiving stimulus checks

By Andrew Mark Miller

Published March 5, 2021 9:02pm ET

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Cruz proposing amendment to coronavirus relief package barring illegal immigrants from receiving stimulus checks — Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, and Senate Transportation subcommittee chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listen during a Senate Transportation subcommittee on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. Two recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed nearly 350 people, have lead to the temporary grounding of models of the aircraft and to increased scrutiny of the FAA's delegation of a number of aspects of the certification process to the aircraft manufacturers themselves. | AP Photo / Alex Brandon

Sen. Ted Cruz is introducing an amendment to the latest round of coronavirus relief funding that would prevent illegal immigrants from receiving stimulus checks.

“Not only does this COVID bill fail to address the real needs of the American people who are suffering, but it hands out billions in taxpayer dollars to illegal immigrants,” the Texas Republican’s office said in a statement to Breitbart News.

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