Winning!
Excellent!!! A lot fewer will desire to come here.
Will this apply to the so-called refugees too? I sure hope so.
I would feel much better if it was said “illegal aliens” are not eligible for welfare benefits.
Even this doesn’t go far enough. All they have to do (and in a lot of cases, for both legal and illegal, this is what happens) is pop out an anchor baby, then apply for all the goodies in the name of the citizen baby. They’ve got to make it so if the head of the house is immigrant and under 5 years, even if they start popping out anchor babies, they still don’t qualify. And if the head of the house is illegal, no benefits in the name of the kid, no matter how long the parent has been in the country. It’s the only way to stem the tide.
It’s about time. If immigrants, with short time exceptions for some real refugees, had never been permitted welfare or tax credits illegal immigration would be a highly manageable trickle rather than the gimme flood we have had. With no possibility of welfare at any level, the illegals that we would still get would be productive people and an amnesty at irregular intervals but averaging no more than once a generation might be sensible. It would be more like it was a century ago when the only bars really were health and political proclivities. Returning to the immigration policies of the 50s would be sensible and productive. Before the Kennedy Abomination we pretty much drew the brains of the world to the USA and it aided the technological rise of the Nation.