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Trump’s callous attack on immigrants who need public aid
Los Angeles Times ^ | Aug. 13, 2019 | The Times Editorial Board

Posted on 08/13/2019 6:13:46 AM PDT by artichokegrower

The Trump administration is moving — again — to make it more difficult for even legal immigrants to get a foothold in the United States.

Beginning in October, a new rule will make immigrants who use certain government safety-net programs ineligible for permanent residency, blocking their path to naturalized citizenship.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: trumpillegals
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To: artichokegrower

This is not a new rule, it’s been law since the 1800’s. Trump is just going to start enforcing it “again”. It’s about damned time!


41 posted on 08/13/2019 6:53:06 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: artichokegrower

We have A/B Tricare Life sucks a lot of our income in co-pays. Every SS COLA raise we get we see a few Dollars, rest goes to Medicare and increased Tricare Life Co-pays. So we might see enough to pay for the OTC meds, vitmins, we require.


42 posted on 08/13/2019 6:56:08 AM PDT by GailA (Intractable Pain, a Subset of Chronic pain Last a Life TIME at Level 10.)
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To: mowowie

I used to live in MA. I heard no one ever checked that box to pay more income tax.


43 posted on 08/13/2019 6:58:19 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: artichokegrower

LAT doing the bidding of California hospitals, who now suddenly stand to have to carry all of this free care on their own books.


44 posted on 08/13/2019 7:09:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: artichokegrower

Immigrants should never be a burden to the citizens.

Illegal aliens should ALL be removed.


45 posted on 08/13/2019 7:13:35 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: artichokegrower

These rules are decades old. Democrats helped pass them and never changed them. You don’t get to bitch when Trump enforces them.


46 posted on 08/13/2019 7:17:36 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: eyeamok
The 40 quarters for SS is one of the conditions that removes your responsibility as a sponsor. Becoming a citizen is another one and that usually takes 5 years.

"The 1996 federal welfare and immigration laws introduced an unprecedented new era of restrictionism. Prior to these laws’ enactment, lawful permanent residents of the U.S. generally were eligible for assistance in a manner similar to U.S. citizens. After these laws’ enactment, most lawfully residing immigrants were barred from receiving assistance under the major federal benefits programs for five years or longer."

47 posted on 08/13/2019 7:18:59 AM PDT by kabar
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To: artichokegrower

Enforcing immigration law is now considered as an attack.

Is trying to stop a bank robber now considered an attack by the police? One is robbing a bank, the other is robbing taxpayers.

So, the next time I am stopped for speeding, I will tell the trooper that he is attacking me.


48 posted on 08/13/2019 7:21:59 AM PDT by odawg
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
This is absurd - why should the US welcome immigrants who will immediately require public assistance?

The fashionable phrase for colleges is "needs-blind admission."

49 posted on 08/13/2019 7:28:33 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: artichokegrower

In the 60’s and 70’s I know that applicants for permanent residency had to apply through their country’s US consulates or embassies. Their applications were subject to a thorough background investigation which included finances. They had to sign statements that they would not become a burden on US taxpayers, etc. Then they had to wait five years as a permanent resident (green card) before applying for citizenship.

Question: When did it change to the current process, and why???


50 posted on 08/13/2019 7:29:28 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: txrefugee
It’s the LAW, passed by Congress

The correct way to say this when talking to normies is, "these are the People's laws, passed by Congress, signed by Presidents going back to Truman. The system is not "broken", it's the GOVERNMENT which refuses to enforce OUR laws that's broken".

51 posted on 08/13/2019 7:32:45 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: artichokegrower
This will win a lot of the black vote.

Black community has been destroyed by illegal immigration.

52 posted on 08/13/2019 8:27:01 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: artichokegrower

Back in days of Ellis Island, you had to prove you had a skill and a job waiting for you.


53 posted on 08/13/2019 8:29:19 AM PDT by bgill
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To: artichokegrower
a new rule will make immigrants who use certain government safety-net programs ineligible for permanent residency, blocking their path to naturalized citizenship.

Good. That's the way it should be.

54 posted on 08/13/2019 8:31:17 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Trump has also made a callous attack on MS 13 members. The man is totally callous.


55 posted on 08/13/2019 8:57:39 AM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: artichokegrower

No comments section?

Why not? :)


56 posted on 08/13/2019 9:09:59 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Starcitizen
"Social security offices in Washington State and no doubt California and elsewhere are chock-full of Indians and Chinese elderly that never worked a day in their lives in the US, collecting benefits."

Yep. I'm a physician.

I see this every single day.

Grandma from the old country may be a nice person, but why does she get free medicaid, just by being on US soil for a month?

Oh, and grandma doesn't speak English, so by law we have to pay for a translator.

Don't you LOVE democrats?

57 posted on 08/13/2019 11:02:56 AM PDT by boop ("I've always hated Nazis")
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