Disgusting New Proof Democrats Care More About Illegal Aliens Than American Citizens

The casual confidence of that response is the part worth sitting with. Hochul isn’t defensive about spending New York taxpayer money on legal representation for people who have no legal right to be in the country, children or not. She’s proud of it. She’s bragging about it. She put it on official government social media like it’s a bumper sticker.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 — a Bush-era program — requires that illegal alien minors receive legal representation at deportation hearings. This is existing federal law. New York has now committed an additional $7.25 million of state money on top of whatever federal legal aid remains in place.

The obvious question, asked by every American watching their own legal costs, their own children’s school budgets, their own infrastructure crumbling: when does the state spend $7 million to help American citizens navigate a legal system that is also complex, also expensive, and also produces consequences that can ruin lives?

The question answers itself. The state spends money on illegal alien legal defense because it’s a political statement — a signal to the activist base that New York will resist federal immigration enforcement using every dollar it can find. The signal matters more than the math.