On Wednesday, inside the Sheraton Times Square Hotel where the New York State Democratic Party Convention was held, the party expectedly threw its support behind Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2022 reelection bid this summer.
Outside the notable Midtown hotel was a drastically different scene.
Nearly 50 undocumented immigrants and cash-economy workers, known excluded workers, crowded outside the building calling out Hochul for failing to support legislation including a $3 billion push from lawmakers to revive the Excluded Workers Fund — a payment to low-income workers who lost wages due to COVID-19 and who are not eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) due to immigration — and a permanent alternative to unemployment insurance.
