[AnotherUnixGeek]

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

This is absurd - why should the US welcome immigrants who will immediately require public assistance? We want immigrants who are self-sufficient and will immediately contribute to the American economy, not those who will immediately ask others to help them financially.

[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. It’s every H1B’s dream to bring over their whole clan to collect unearned benefits from the USA

[kabar]

It is the law. You can’t be a public charge the first 5 years of residency. Trump is enforcing the law.

[Vigilanteman]

As a practical matter, it is a lot less costly to be a public ward in El Salvador or Somalia. We have a more than ample supply of native born slackards. We need not be importing any.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This is absurd - why should the US welcome immigrants who will immediately require public assistance?

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