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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Explain.
It’s clear legal immigration is destroying America. If you can’t see that then you are blind and nothing can be done to help you.
This will go a long way in reducing immigration sponsorship abuse that pushes the financial costs onto taxpayers.
The Biden Administration? I was an eligibility worker in the 1980’s and it wasn’t followed then. They applied and received. No questions asked.
So Trump's mother and the wives of family and friends who were legally-sponsored foreign women are the problem and not illegals and temporary workers for farming and H-1Bs are the problem.
FRiend, you're crazy.
I am quite sure they were not supposed to give out those benefits.
I was a very young kid when our church sponsored Vietnamese refugees fleeing communism, just old enough to remember we had to give to a special fund since the families couldn’t use welfare.
(That didn’t last too long because the Vietnamese quickly found work or started businesses)
Anyone with a brain see’s how LEGAL immigration is also destroying opportunities and changing demographics. The h-1 and H-2 visas are prime examples. The only reason to import humans is to lower the prevailing wages of working class Americans. There is no other reason. This level of legal immigration is causing social disruption. No other country does this except for lefty EU failed socialist hell holes.
Those are both NON-IMMIGRANT visas, as are H-1B.
Immigrant visas are what you said were the problem.
You really have no concept about this subject, it seems.
After 6 years most get green cards then citizenship . They go on to vote Democrat over Republican 85:15. So we import people that don’t work? What? Imported tax wasters?
It’s about frikking time, I had to Guarantee with my incomke and assets for 10 years that my wife would NOT be a Public Burden.
Now make a BRAVE MOVE and Declare the Public Employee’s as a whole in every sanctuary State are by Definition the Sponsors LEGALLY for Every Illegal Alien in their State.
Then talk against the available path to switch from “non-immigrant” to “immigrant” visa.
The problem is not with actual “immigrant” visas.
Ok other than visitor and student visas what immigrant visa does not allow work? Try to make sense.
Fiancee visas allow work and are obviously fine.
If someone becomes someone’s wife or husband, you want them to not work?
“The State Dept is broken, and has been broken for decades.”
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A portion is the Deep State, countermanding every correct action by the President.
Most of those visa marriages are a scam.
No, they are not.
And if they were, both can go to prison.
Like our immigration laws are enforced. LOL
Then rail against non-enforcement of our current laws.
Why? I want all immigration to halt for decades. Why bother to fix it.
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