Posted on 06/04/2019 5:10:45 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
President Trump just took another crucial step toward restoring sanity to our immigration system and making sure it works to America’s benefit rather than draining our country’s wealth.
In a recent memorandum, the president ordered authorities to enforce a Clinton-era law that required sponsors of welfare-dependent legal immigrants to reimburse the government for the benefits they receive. That law also requires the government to consider the income of a sponsor when a legal immigrant applies for welfare.
"To protect benefits for American citizens, immigrants must be financially self-sufficient," President Trump said in announcing the plan, making the common-sense point that even establishment politicians have acknowledged for decades.
The president is right, and the numbers prove it. According to a 2018 report from the Center for Immigration Studies, some 63% of “non-citizen households” access welfare programs of some kind — compared to only 35% of “native-headed households.”
Legal immigration is supposed to help, not burden, the U.S. economy — which is precisely why the Trump administration is fighting tooth and nail to reform our broken immigration system, which starts with enforcing our existing laws.
The president also recently announced another initiative to enhance the benefits of legal immigration, touting a merit-based system that would favor high-skilled immigrants who can help to ensure that America remains competitive on the world stage.
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Best vote I ever cast. MAGA.
“when a legal immigrant applies for welfare.”
No immigrant, refugee, legal, illegal or naturalized citizen should be allowed to even “apply” for welfare. When my wife became legal, and then naturalized, she and I were both required to sign that she would never go on welfare.
No non-citizen has a right to be here. If they apply for taxpayer funded welfare they should be deported immediately.
Naturalized citizens should be held to contractual law.
He’s talking about immigrants who come here under the auspices of the law. We’ve got criminals/crimigrants flooding across our southern border by the tens of thousands. I think that’s the greater problem.
How much is Mexico collecting to allow this?
116 Congolese were just apprehended by ICE.....where do these people get the thousands of dollars for food and transportation to get to the border?
Its likely govt's are paying the freight b/c they cash in bigtime from remittances of the US gravy train tax dollars.
In a recent memorandum, the president ordered authorities to enforce a Clinton-era law
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He needs to write a special order to get them to enforce the laws that have been on the books for 20 years?
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