Immigration advocates have launched a new coronavirus relief fund to provide financial support to workers who have been “shut out of” the government’s recent stimulus package.
Kickstarted by Faith in Action, a national community organizing network, as part of the organization’s LA RED campaign, the new effort will see money raised and distributed to immigrants making up part of the U.S.’s “essential workforce.”
Those workers, Faith in Action said, are being left with no choice but to work amid the pandemic, since they cannot receive government support due to rules preventing some immigrant workers from benefiting from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
