IL prioritizes $3.2B for immigrants, leaves working families behind: Legislator

IL prioritizes $3.2B for immigrants, leaves working families behind: Legislator – Center Square

House Bill 3082, which provides $50 million in grants to support afterschool programs and community schools, hasn’t moved out of committee. Said state Rep. Adam Niemerg, “Here we are in the last couple days of session, running over a billion-dollar shortfall that we're aware of right now, $3.2 billion has been spent on illegals, and we don't even have the money to shore up the federal dollars on the state side to help our own working-class Illin…

IL prioritizes $3.2B for immigrants, leaves working families behind: Legislator

(The Center Square) – A state legislator says a proposal to allocate $50 million in state funding for after-school programs has been sidelined due to state spending on illegal immigrants.