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Fear of deportation drives people off food stamps in US
WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | June 6, 2017 5:25 pm | AP

Posted on 06/06/2017 4:40:54 PM PDT by COBOL2Java


NEW YORK (AP) — A crackdown on illegal immigration under President Donald Trump has driven some poor people to take a drastic step: opt out of federal food assistance because they are fearful of deportation, activists and immigrants say.

People who are not legal residents of the U.S. are not eligible to take part in what is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

But many poor families include a mix of non-legal residents and legal ones, such as children who have citizenship because they were born in the U.S. In those cases, it is often an adult who is not a legal resident who submits the application.

Some now feel that is too dangerous under a president who has made immigration enforcement a priority. Throughout the U.S., there are accounts of people resisting efforts of nonprofit organizations to sign them up for food stamps, letting benefits lapse or withdrawing from the program because of the perceived risk.

“They don’t want to put their name and address on a form for a government public benefit out of fear that they’ll be sought out and asked to leave,” said Teresa Smith, executive director of Catholic Charities of Orange County, California.

The food stamp program provides monthly payments, typically about $125 per eligible household member, to poor families to buy essential staples. Going without can be an extreme decision, advocates say.

“This means less food on the table, fewer meals in houses where the kids have rights because they are U.S. citizens,” said Andrew Hammond, an attorney for Chicago’s Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; aliens; deportation; dreamers; ebt; illegals; maga; obamalegacy; snap; welfare; welfareabuse; welfarecheats; welfarefraud
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To: COBOL2Java

41 posted on 06/06/2017 5:13:08 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: stillfree?

The other is to take over the country


42 posted on 06/06/2017 5:13:41 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: COBOL2Java

If you really want to see the illegals run just introduce a bill in congress to reinstate the draft with finding and drafting illegal men a priority. Hen make public statements that military mobilization is immenent.


43 posted on 06/06/2017 5:14:32 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: jackibutterfly

“Is something wrong with Free Republic again. I can’t get it to fully load.”

Are you here illegally? You also have one of those ‘Hippy Names’ like that SPY, ‘Reality Winner.’

That’s probably your problem. :)

JUST KIDDING! (I couldn’t resist; the Times, they are so CrAzy!)


44 posted on 06/06/2017 5:16:20 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Just proves that “fear” is an excellent motivator.


45 posted on 06/06/2017 5:18:21 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: COBOL2Java

If they are illegal how the hell did they get food stamps?


46 posted on 06/06/2017 5:23:33 PM PDT by Lee25
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To: COBOL2Java

Now, turn of all the Obama phones. There’s no “right to a cell phone” in our founding documents. More winning.


47 posted on 06/06/2017 5:33:12 PM PDT by Fireone (No more Kennedys, Bushes, Clintons, or Obamas....(or their kids)ever!)
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To: COBOL2Java
Now, there's a novel idea: queue up in line, follow our laws, and become LEGAL immigrants! You'll still be dead weight spooning a living out of our wallets, but at least we'll know who and where you are! And learn English, you bastiches!


48 posted on 06/06/2017 5:38:08 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." - John Steinbeck)
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To: COBOL2Java

One would hope they would be limited to citizens. If the immigrants can’t support themselves here, they should not be here. I would never expect to move to another country and expect to get handouts from the government to support myself...NEVER!


49 posted on 06/06/2017 5:47:43 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: COBOL2Java

When my mom moved here in the 50s she was a legal alien and not entitled to any public assistance.


50 posted on 06/06/2017 5:53:40 PM PDT by punknpuss
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To: joshua c; COBOL2Java

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The workaround is to have an anchor baby. The baby, a US citizen, gets the food stamps. The parents, illegal aliens, get the checks. So illegals can and do get welfare benefits.

That is why getting rid of the anchor baby provision is so important,
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I’d rather we just got rid of the illegal, unconstitutional, economic slavery known as ‘welfare’.

That *ONE* step solves a plethora of ‘issues’ (of govt making), while restoring a good deal of Rights.

Too many solutions not requiring $.01, but getting govt back to its rightful size, role and purpose.


51 posted on 06/06/2017 5:54:06 PM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: COBOL2Java

Less free food for other countries’ citizens? Where is the down side?


52 posted on 06/06/2017 5:55:50 PM PDT by Yaelle (#IStandWithHannity)
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To: COBOL2Java

How about we stop granting citizenship to children born here to illegal aliens? It may have made sense a couple of centuries ago, but no longer. ALSO, we have to drop the dual-citizenship nonsense.


53 posted on 06/06/2017 6:06:19 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: COBOL2Java
This is the "anchor baby" scam. They sign up an anchor baby for SNAP but since they're only a month old they have to have a parent or legal guardian sign up for them and they DO NOT have to be US citizens.

When I lived in Del Rio (TX),we had a running joke: Mexicans buy groceries in Del Rio because they're free and Americans buy groceries in Acuna because that's all we could afford.

54 posted on 06/06/2017 6:08:21 PM PDT by SanchoP (Any compromise with evil is still evil.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Rephrased in a rational way— Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants saves taxpayer money by cutting fraud and abuse of our social services.


55 posted on 06/06/2017 6:13:24 PM PDT by Rob the Ugly Dude
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To: COBOL2Java

Cry me a river.

And ask me if I care.


56 posted on 06/06/2017 6:26:11 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: COBOL2Java

NTOWY


57 posted on 06/06/2017 6:27:08 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: COBOL2Java

Gee, it sure would be a shame if that went to .... I dunno ... American citizens?


58 posted on 06/06/2017 6:41:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: COBOL2Java
Call me crazy, but aren't food stamps - I dunno - supposed to be for LEGAL immigrants?

You're crazy!

Legal immigrants are supposed to have American citizen sponsors who guarantee that the immigrants will not need public assistance. Or, so it used to be.

59 posted on 06/06/2017 6:49:33 PM PDT by donna (There are now roughly 3,200 mosques in America, nearly three times as many as there were in 2000.)
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To: joshua c; ExTexasRedhead

“That is why getting rid of the anchor baby provision is so important,”

Particularly when they breed like rabbits and produce a mammoth problem for the decent, hard-working taxpayers of this country.
I truly believe that if we were able to cut out all the waste fraud and abuse, coupled with forcing the Federal Government back inside the parameters set forth in the Constitution, that retiring the National Debt would not take all that long.


60 posted on 06/06/2017 8:03:03 PM PDT by vette6387
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