Posted on 09/25/2025 11:40:53 AM PDT by packagingguy
The Trump administration is warning migrant sponsors to take financial responsibility for them or expect to be slapped with steep fines, lawsuits, or even prosecution.
American citizens who sponsor migrants that end up using taxpayer-funded benefits like food stamps or housing assistance will be held financially liable and could even face criminal charges, according to a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) memo obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The announcement, which is intended for all migrant sponsors across the country, marks the latest policy crackdown by the Trump administration.
“It is crucial for sponsors and aliens to meet their fiscal obligations and not push financial burdens onto the American people,” USCIS Spokesman Matthew Tragesser said in a statement provided to the DCNF.
“American taxpayers should not be on the hook to subsidize aliens when their financial sponsors have promised to do so,” Tragesser continued.
Most family-based immigrants are required to be sponsored by a citizen or lawful permanent resident when applying for a green card, according to USCIS. A sponsor agrees to take financial responsibility for them, ensuring that foreign nationals seeking resident status in the U.S. have adequate means of support and will not become dependent on public benefits.
If a migrant receives means-tested public benefits — public benefits funded by the federal or state government, such as welfare or cash assistance — while under support of their sponsor, the agency that provided that benefit can request the sponsor to pay back the cost, according to USCIS. If the cost is not repaid, that agency is permitted to sue the sponsor for repayment, legal fees, and other associated costs.
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The government makes that perfectly clear so the sponsor knows exactly what their obligations are.
This is not so much a new policy from the Trump administration and they are certainly not making new laws on their own.
The administration's stance is simply a reflection on and enforcement of existing law.
Enforcement of this is long overdue.
Is it:
“This is not so much a new policy from the Trump administration and they are certainly not making new laws on their own.”
Or is it:
This is not a new policy from the Trump administration.
?
This means the Trump administration has not formulated some brand new policy out of thin air, although that’s how you’re likely to hear it from the “news”.
It really is a return to decades-old federal policy that simply was not followed under the Biden administration. For the last four years the American taxpayer had to pony up the money to pay for “migrants”. Now their sponsors will as they had agreed to do so.
This should also help shut down the globalist NGOs importing migrants like Amnesty International, Catholic Relief Services, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, etc....
Ruh Roh
Now they have to prove they even have the slave, errr,,refugee, they bought,,eeerr,
,sponsored.
And I am considering sponsoring a Venezuelan couple that has tried to work with the State Department for years, to stay here. Was brutally prosecuted under the old regime.
Went to the embassy for their last formal interview, and found out that their entire process was canceled when the Trump admin stopped all Venezuelans from coming and completing their application for citizenship.
Don’t necessarily disagree with halting new citizenship requests, but the State Dept is broken, and has been broken for decades.
You missed my point
It is not new.
It is a law that has been ignored.
I would further require evidence from the sponsor that they have the money to support the immigrant, supported by bond if unpaid.
We need to stop ALL immigration for at least 25 years.
I have multiple people in my life who were sponsored. Wives, mostly. Everyone had to sign that they had full responsibility for the person until they had something like ten years of gainful employment in, otherwise it was for life.
These illegals are all getting what legal immigrants and citizens can’t.
Also, if legal immigrants are getting any government benefits, of course the sponsor must pay that. That was already known.
This is the LAW!
Proof was required.
“It is not new.”
Thereby making this: “This is not so much a new policy from the Trump”
Confusing
Ok
That will leave American men having to stay single or marry crazy libs.
Ron Paul wanted this... No freebies, sponsors pay up and sponsor or they starve or go back home.
Obviously, an exception should be made for hot eastern European women near me.
No it won’t.
This was always the law, but it was not being enforced for, now, many years, it seems.
So, yes, it is a new Trump policy to finally enforce the law.
“American citizens who sponsor migrants that end up using taxpayer-funded benefits like food stamps or housing assistance will be held financially liable and could even face criminal charges, according to a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) memo obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. “
That’s how it was when I came over in 1962.
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