Posted on 05/23/2019 2:44:04 PM PDT by RightGeek
President Trump is signing a memorandum Thursday that will enforce a 23-year-old provision requiring sponsors of legal immigrants in the U.S. to reimburse the government for any social services such as Medicaid or welfare used by the immigrant, Fox News has learned.
The provision was part of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and Welfare Reform laws that were signed by then-President Bill Clinton, but despite being enshrined in federal law, the rule has not been enforced.
Under the provision, each future sponsor of an immigrant would need to sign an affidavit that would spell out the financial responsibilities for the sponsored immigrant and create a collection mechanism to recover funds from the sponsor. The Department of Health and Human Services is to collect the data of the sponsors and the immigrants, while the Treasury Department would collect the funds.
The move – part of the president’s push for a merit-based immigration system – is meant to make the person sponsoring the immigrant responsible for any medical or financial benefits the immigrant receives.
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That would be mean.
What a great law - I remember hearing about it when I was a child. Srsly.
There you go! Perfect. That’s the way it used to be. When my grandparents came over from Scotland they had to have a sponsor who would be financially responsible.
Agreed.
SO WHY HAS IT NOT BEEN ENFORCED.
If the government can pick and choose what laws that it enforces, I’m not understanding why citizens should not have the same freedoms in following them.
We would be missing two certain congress ladies from the Minneapolis and Detroit areas had that been enforced.
in canada, before any immigrant lands any welfare crap is under the responsibility of the sponsor. Meaning simply: no citizenship if you even attempt it..
Yup....when my grandmother came at age 13, she went and lived with and was cared for by her relative/sponsor. There was no welfare for immigrants.
My grandparents came in the late 1800s. You had to have a sponsor, a health check, and a job
The bigger problem is that they give welfare handouts to illegals when they should be giving them a bus ride back to the dump they came from.
Does this mean that Catholic Charities in Lutheran Social Services could be on the hook for this?
I really really hope so.
HOLY CRAP!! What are all of those Subway stores and Marathon Gas stations going to do for employees now, without the “Immigrant cousins” that are exempt from minimum wage laws!??
THIS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS, folks.
The EVIL ORANGE MAN is at it again. How dare he enforce existing laws!
Wow!
I read this to mean that any sponsor of an H-1A or H-1B visa is shitt!ing their pants right now.
Silicon Valley will be apoplectic. As will be the big hotel chains.
New sponsors will be few and far between.
Thank you, Mr. Pres. Now, get the meanest guy you can find to enforce it.
Brilliant move. Make the bleeding hearts pay for their misplaced “compassion.” That’ll stop the invasion quicker than a wall.
Trump needs to go after the churches. Lutheran Services, the Catholic church...they’re the ones who are bringing them in here and collecting taxpayer dollars.
Congress repeals the law in 3 ........ 2 ..........
Although I do agree with the sentiment, they are technically bringing in refugees, not immigrants. Different rules apply. Catholic Bishops and Lutherns EACH get $100,000,000 per year to do this, from you and I. It is at the presidents discretion as to how many to allow in per year (currently around 30,000).
Amen to that. I usually put it "Why should I have to be the last good little boy in North America when nobody in power obeys any laws?"
Before someone starts to oppose me for that I merely say "sanctuary cities." Case closed. I won.
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