Illegal immigrants, like the name implies, should not be in California or anywhere else in the US in the first place anyways, let alone receiving checks.
Of course, the real problem is not the illegal immigrants themselves but the fact that the US has illegal immigrants that have stayed in the country for years or even decades in the first place; and in some cases even have kids who are US citizens.
But that's a reason to introduce a path to citizenship and maybe ease up immigration laws, not to let people starve
Oh absolutely. As I said, the problem is that the illegal immigrants were not deported when the time for deportation was appropiate. The time to deport someone is as soon as they enter illegally or break the terms of their legal visa. It is better to deport a months old baby, than to deport said person 12 years later as a 12 year old. (alongside his or her parents of course, and assuming the parents are also illegal immigrants)
I certainly do support a path to citizenship for several categories of illegal immigrants; for example off the top of my head deporting the DACA people would be absolutely heartless; and so would deporting people who have spent more than a decade in the US, and in many cases have stable jobs. Deporting someone who arrived just a couple months ago and has no buisness being in the US is absolutely fine by me though.
Given that the economic situation due to the coronavirus is more than uncertain I'd put it on hold for now, but in general I would also support legal immigration reform, and given the low unemployment the US should have temporarily increased immigration during the Trump presidency tbh; though I would need to first see a cost analysis for this (on one hand it solves labour shortages but on the other those same labour shortages can increase the wages of American workers, which have been declining for a while now?)
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