In 1991 I was required to sign an affidavit declaring I would not take any benefits as a condition of entry to the country. Has this changed?
For legal immigrants, I do not think anything has changed. But illegal invaders get all kinds of public assistance, ostensibly so they can care for their anchor baby children.
“Has this changed?”
It just has not been enforced.
For more than a half century, the only ones who got deported for taking benefits, were the few whom the Government sent bills trying to recoup benefits, who flat out refused to pay.
In many places, Green Card Holders are not eligible for benefits. But in some left wing States (I believe that New York is one), they are routinely signed up for them.
I knew some immigrants who got Green Cards for serving as translators in Afghanistan, who were denied benefits in Virginia - but their friends with the same Visas who went to New York, were signed right up.
> required to sign an affidavit declaring I would not take any benefits as a condition of entry to the country.
Who needs conditions when they don’t come in with permission anyway?
Report: More than half of immigrants on welfare
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/01/immigrant-welfare-use-report/71517072/