How a hunger strike achieved financial aid for 290,000 undocumented immigrants in New York (podcast).

Undocumented immigrants and activists went on a hunger strike for 23 days to demand that the New York Assembly and Governor Andrew Cuomo approve a $ 3.5 billion fund to send financial aid to non-citizens rejected from federal aid programs.

Their fight achieved that on April 6, $ 2,100 million dollars were approved to create the Fund for Excluded Workers, which will allow to grant between $ 3,200 and $ 15,600 dollars to undocumented immigrants who lost their jobs or had fewer working hours during the COVID pandemic.- 19.

Rubiela Correa, who is originally from Colombia, where she has a son, tells Daniel Parra , from  Ciudad sin Límites , and Jesús García,  from  El Diario , how she joined this movement with organizations like Make the Road New York.