would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs, including Obamacare,
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Good, immigrants should not be a burden on the citizens, they should be an asset to the country as a whole.
Trump is such a meanie!
This will trigger TDS Stage IV.
Limit? Welfare and all public programs should be eliminated for any immigrant who arrived within at least 7 years.
Yeah. The title is misleading. He wants to make it harder for those that have abused their “temporary legal” status to become citizens.
They could have posted that title if Trump said he wanted to not allow people with felony convictions to become citizens.
Which is a darned good idea.
How the hell did you supossedly afford the fees to immigrate to the U.S., and then plop yourself on welfare!?
You are not a net drain on us!
Didn’t these people used to require a sponsor?
More dubious sources.
Next: Sources say Trump plans to kill kittens.
Yes!
Go, POTUS!
I don’t ever remember hearing a conservative leader or politician fail to pledge fealty to legal immigration. They jump to the pledge, when discussing illegal immigration, like a moth drawn to a flame, as if they are showcasing their inner purity of motives.
As Ann Coulter has demonstrated, it is LEGAL immigration that will finally sink our culture and our country.
How could people be such fools to think that this country can absorb over a million low-skilled, illiterate people from all over the world and maintain its being.
That is, absorbing over one million low-skilled and illiterate immigrants per YEAR, I should have said.
That means the gainfully employed ones who have never used welfare go to the head of the line. Works for me.
Needs to be clarified. In theory, this could prevent my legally-immigrated green-card wife from fully becoming a US citizen, since we had to use Obamacare for a time while I was unemployed during the Obama Depression.
I’m all for making it excruciatingly difficult to freeload off the US, for immigrants of any stripe; we just need to be careful not to ensnare legitimate use cases.
Good! My grandparents came through Ellis Island. There were no ‘programs’ to suck off the American taxpayer, just work and do the best they could. It wasn’t easy, but they survived, as did their children, including my late mother.
I totally agree with that. We don’t need people from outside taking funds we need to care for our own.
If I went to any foreign country and tried to stay there without being able to support myself, I would not be allowed to. They would send me back to the United States. I was born here. I’m America’s problem.
public welfare programs, including Obamacare
Wait ... Wut?
The media realize that people rarely read past the headline. This one is a perfect example. Without reading the article, John Q. Public would have an unfavorable opinion about Trump.
But those of us who DO read on, we see this nugget ... “if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs”.
Hey, I don’t have a problem with it being made difficult on those that come here without becoming citizens or obtaining legal residency and then milk the taxpayers of our hard earned dollars.
Bwahahahaha……. (Karl Rove’ ‘magnificent b@st@rd’ is soooo over-rated.)
Just the proposal (or rumor of it) will set off the Left, the ‘compassionate’ RINOs and all the ‘right enemies’.
I say, go for it. Go BIG, President Trump.