(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A leftist Texas county judge ruled this week that illegal immigrants have the right to receive a universal basic income, a decision that comes as chaos unfolds on the southern border under the Biden regime.
According to the Post Millennial, on Tuesday, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo made the claims during a vote on the pilot program that was introduced by Harris County Democrats — Uplift Harris — which would give $500 monthly payments to 1,500 families who crossed the U.S. border illegally under the American Rescue Plan Act.
“And so what we do is we pick the 10 poorest neighborhoods. Can the undocumented community apply? If the county attorney says they can, they will. If the county attorney says they can’t, they won’t. What I was told is they can,” Hidalgo said.
She then criticized Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia, who opposes the program, berated him for “interrupting a woman” and claimed that he is a xenophobe.
“Excuse me, Commissioner, you take a liking to interrupting the women, so let me finish and let the director finish,” Hidalgo said.
“If we’re just looking to delay the vote on this, just vote no, Commissioner. We all know you’ve got a bone to pick with certain folks.”
Considering the fact that the majority of politicians in the county are Democrats, it seems that taxpayers will indeed be forced to financially support the people who don’t care about the laws of their country.
“It is uncivilized that we live in a society where people cannot afford basic necessities. As county leaders, we have a duty to employ all the tools that we can to reduce poverty,” the illegal-supporting judge said in her statement.
“This pilot program will support the people that work incredibly hard day and night but still need an uplift.”
She then tried to justify spending taxpayers’ money on illegals by saying that some of that money already goes to places where it is not supposed to be.
“Now we’re having conversations about the money that goes toward the poor. So why did we give $5 million, $6 million to the district attorney that she spent without the court’s initial approval at the objection of the budget director that put us into a deficit?” Hidalgo said.
“Why didn’t we give that to the poor? What about the funds to the courtrooms that put us on the desks here? Why didn’t we give that to the poor?”
