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 ...
This is not a new rule, its been law since the 1800s. Trump is just going to start enforcing it again. Its about damned time!
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.
I used to live in MA. I heard no one ever checked that box to pay more income tax.
LAT doing the bidding of California hospitals, who now suddenly stand to have to carry all of this free care on their own books.
Immigrants should never be a burden to the citizens.
Illegal aliens should ALL be removed.
These rules are decades old. Democrats helped pass them and never changed them. You don’t get to bitch when Trump enforces them.
"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."
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.
The fashionable phrase for colleges is "needs-blind admission."
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???
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".
Back in days of Ellis Island, you had to prove you had a skill and a job waiting for you.
Good. That's the way it should be.
Trump has also made a callous attack on MS 13 members. The man is totally callous.
No comments section?
Why not? :)
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?
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