Posted on 08/22/2016 6:54:59 AM PDT by massmike
Gov. Paul LePage has pounced on the recent unsealing of court documents showing an Iranian refugee who resettled in Maine and later joined the terror group ISIS.
But the governor’s eagerness to use Adnan Fazeli’s radicalization here to rail against welfare benefits for refugees may have led him to run afoul of a federal law designed to protect the identities of welfare recipients and their families.
According to federal rules, the identities of benefit recipients are confidential — only law enforcement, immigration officials and state administrators are allowed to know who receives the benefits.
Those same officials, according to the law, “must adequately protect the information against unauthorized disclosure.”
“It’s concerning if that was indeed reported by Maine officials because federal law is clear that people’s confidentiality should be protected,” says Robyn Merrill, director for Maine Equal Justice Partners, an advocacy group for the poor.
Merrill says that Fazeli’s radicalization here is concerning, but she worries about the LePage administration’s zeal to politicize it.
“It seems as though this one particular circumstance is really being exploited and used as justification to deny help to a whole group of people,” she says.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.mpbn.net ...
I wonder if his offspring will receive survivors’ benefits.
Broke Federal law?
What’s that? /s
oh, well. I guess the governor broke “the law”.
FYI
He’s a Republican....so he’ll do 5 years.You just wait!
And BTW...why should the names of welfare queens (and kings) be secret?
I know! The names of the people that donated to Prop 8 in California were available enough to the rainbow people......
When will Zero award him the Medal of Honor?
“According to federal rules, the identities of benefit recipients are confidential — only law enforcement, immigration officials and state administrators are allowed to know who receives the benefits.”
Oh, I see. So the TAXPAYERS who foot the bill for TERRORISTS aren’t allowed to know where their tax dollars are going?
Got it.
I love this guy.
The names of welfare recipients should be public information. The salaries of government employees is public info. Same should be for those getting a free ride on the taxpayer dollar.
Gov. LePage is a true American, and a real, live Horatio Algier story. As a street kid who left his Lewiston, Maine home at age 11, he lived the American dream. From literally rags to the governorship of Maine. He is honest, generous, and does not suffer fools well.
The idiot who wrote the story at Maine Public Broadcasting Network and the social justice lawyer need to reexamine their priorities, and pull their respective heads out of their respective rectums. The governor making public information that should be public is not the problem. Letting those into the country who insist on non-assimilating into our culture and who, in return, are bent on killing Americans...that is the problem.
Change the narrative to make the governor a criminal!
I watched a documentary on the Dust Bowl over the weekend, and one of the segments went over how these hard-working folks, completely beaten down over the events that took place, finally relented to taking government assistance, and when they did so, their names were published in the local papers.
Right to privacy? he is dead, no?
Uh oh. All those cashiers and people standing in line behind the people using the benefits cards are going to be hauled in under this law...
That is not surprising. They all get welfare. Along with free spending money, free housing, and free medical. All while being trained to kill us. All courtesy of the choice that a majority of voters made when they demanded, via their votes, that a muslim have the rule over them.
This appears to be the decisive point. It is posthumous. Nobody living, even if believed to be in the same position, has been publicly implicated.
Also this can’t be taken to a ridiculous point: if John Doe commits welfare fraud and is duly tried and convicted for it, the crime is now not a secret. Conviction implies that yes, the person was taking welfare benefits.
I know we have too many laws but this is where another law would make sense: you are committing welfare fraud if you take it and then fight for an enemy force. Now even formally, bye bye secrecy for these circumstances.
The people have a right to know how their money is being spent.
Go Governor LePage.
I love this guy.
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