Posted on 05/23/2011 8:29:25 PM PDT by La Lydia
NPR would like to talk with first-generation immigrants who send money to family or friends in their home countries. Tell us in the comments what country you're sending money.
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The subject at the NPR link is “first generation immigrants”, not “illegal first generation immigrants”. I don’t drink but I can read. The assumption that all immigrants are illegal, particularly those dubbed as third world immigrants is offensive to me personally.
The NPR thread does not distinguish between legal and illegal though some of the posters do. Posts here have the two catagories combined as well, asserting that all are on some form of welfare including the tax credit fed handout. I oppose the tax give away but if the recipients are obeying the law, the money is theirs. Change the law, don’t demonize the recipient.
Who said they were all illegal? But let’s face reality: most illegal immigrants are from the Third World. Since the subject is “money sent out of the country by immigrants,” perhaps it is pertinent to point out that legal immigrants are, under the 1971 Supreme Court ruling in Graham v. Richardson, entitled to any and all benefits that citizens may received. This was altered slightly by the 1996 welfare reform act (Clinton’s end of welfare bill which reduced benefits for everyone), however, In 1997, Congress restored SSI eligibility for most legal immigrants present in the country prior to the ‘96 law’s enactment. In 1998, Congress restored food-stamp eligibility to immigrant children and those elderly or disabled immigrants. My point being, legal immigrants receive benefits from the public purse, and those benefits replace funds that they might send abroad.
Lets just get it all out in the open.
For many immigrants, the entire purpose of coming here in the first place is to earn enough money to send back home to their relatives. And why shouldn’t they? their relatives probably helped them out with cash to get them relocated and set up in america. It’s always been like that.
The difference is they used to come here legally, learn english, and make their own way in life without government freebies at taxpayer expense.
So are you saying those freebies should come with strings attached? Because I think the answer is to be more selective who we let in and how many freebies we hand out, rather than try to track their freebies once they get here.
Are you sure this post was meant for me? Who suggested “tracking their freebies once they get here”? What good would tracking them do?
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