Posted on 08/13/2019 9:57:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
"Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge," Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said Tuesday, twisting Emma Lazarus' famous words on a bronze plaque at the Statue of Liberty.
Cuccinelli was speaking to NPR's Rachel Martin about a new regulation he announced Monday that targets legal immigration. The rule denies green cards and visas to immigrants if they use — or are deemed likely to need — federal, state and local government benefits including food stamps, housing vouchers and Medicaid. The change stands to impact hundreds of thousands of immigrants who come to the United States legally every year.
The final version of the "public charge" rule is scheduled to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register. A public charge refers to a person who relies on public assistance for help.
On Tuesday, Cuccinelli described the public charge as a "burden on the government." He told NPR the new regulation was a prospective rule, "part of President Trump keeping his promises."
The new rule will go into effect Oct. 15, and only government aid used after that point will be assessed, Cuccinelli said.
Welfare benefits will be just one factor that immigration service officers use to determine an applicant's fate in the United States, in addition to age, health, education and financial status.
"If they don't have future prospects of being legal permanent residents without welfare, that will be counted against them," Cuccinelli said.
"All immigrants who can stand on their own two feet, self-sufficient, pull themselves up by their bootstraps" would be welcome, he added.
Asked if that changes the definition of the American dream, Cuccinelli said, "No one has a right to become an American who isn't born here as an American."
Then he clarified: "It is a privilege to become an American, not a right for anybody who is not already an American citizen, that's what I was referring to."
He said the welcoming words from the 1903 plaque at the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor," were put there "at almost the same time" as when the first public charge law was passed — in 1882.
Critics have denounced the rule as a sweeping attempt to stem immigration and favor wealthy migrants. The regulation is expected to be challenged by immigration groups in court.
Leon Fresco, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Obama administration, said the case could wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
"I also expect lawsuits from individuals who say that, at the end of the day, if Congress provided certain benefits to be accessible by certain groups of immigrants, that meant that they did not want them then banned under the public charge rule," Fresco told NPR.
Rumors that the Trump administration was considering the regulation already led to a chilling effect on immigrants looking to put down roots through legal and permanent residency. Public health and social service providers report that immigrants are worried about seeking medical and housing aid for themselves and their children, who may be U.S. citizens.
Cuccinelli, a former Virginia attorney general, has long held a hard-line stance against immigration and asylum policies. President Trump tapped him to be the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in June, bringing him to the helm of an agency he had never worked in.
Children Being 'Rented' To Help Migrants Claim Asylum and Hefty SS Checks
IJR ^ | 7/14/2019 | Houston Keene / FR Posted on 7/14/2019, 8:59:55 PM by Its All Over Except ...
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained how migrant children are being “rented” to help other migrants claim asylum when attempting to cross into the U.S. over the southern border. Graham said migrants have been “renting” their children so that others can claim asylum in the U.S. and his claim that 30% of families apprehended while attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border are not really related. Graham responded by saying that officials at the border have started a “pilot program” where they are testing the DNA of migrant family units at the border and that he was told of “about 60 children” who were being “recycled” at the border to allow more people to claim asylum. “They told us about 60 children that were recycled,” said Graham. “They pick the child up in Central America, they bring them to the United States, everybody’s released, and the child goes back to Central America to do it again.” Watch the video here: ... The Senate Judiciary chairman continued on to call the system that has “exploited” children “sick” and “rotten to its core.” He also brought up that “100,000 unaccompanied minors” had been apprehended at the southern border “this year alone.” “This is a sick system. It is rotten to its core. These children have been exploited. We’ve picked up 100,000 unaccompanied minors this year alone. They’re taking this journey, God knows what happens to them on the way, and when they get here 98 percent of them stay and the parents send a note [saying,] “if you want your child to come to America, hire a coyote.” (Excerpt) Read more at ijr.com ...
Fearful migrants have tons of tax-dollars (collected under several identities) from their extended visa-free stays here. NOTE: Claiming "asylum" triggers hefty monthly SS checks. The Washington Examiner reports the "fearful migrants" are cleaning out Western Unions in Texas, making huge withdrawals:
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — People assisting the thousands of migrants who have arrived in San Antonio after being released from federal custody say Western Unions downtown are regularly running out of cash as a result of the high number of withdrawals being made by emigrants from Central American and African nations. “Western Union has run out for the past two-and-a-half months," said Khalid Chini, a local resident and volunteer at the migrant resource center downtown. "All the surrounding area, the Western Unions, they run out of money.” Withdrawals are running in the four and five-figure sums, according to the Examiner: (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Thank you! Those lines from a socialist’s poem have nothing to do with the Statue of Liberty.
They are not the LAW.
Our “DOOR” is open to those who come and meet the STANDARDS we set as Americans.
I attach the following clip from ALL IN THE FAMILY for your viewing pleasure where Archie explains the Statue of Liberty and what America stands for. ENJOY!:
If they think not paying for immigrants necessities is bad; wait a few years until our debt is so large we cannot afford to pay for anyone’s stuff. How much will that suck?
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
RE: Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
THOSE ARE THE KEY WORDS.
You are guaranteed LIBERTY. That’s all that is promised. Sucking from the public’s teat is not promised.
Enforce a Clinton era law and you would think that this was the order of a dictator. Time to spank the children like their parents should have done.
Rumors that the Trump administration was considering the regulation already led to a chilling effect on immigrants looking to put down roots through legal and permanent residency.
You are right. I wish others would learn our history.
“’All immigrants who can stand on their own two feet, self-sufficient, pull themselves up by their bootstraps’” would be welcome, he added.”
The first word “all” is problematical. We simply don’t have the infrastructure or the ability to create enough jobs.
“Yearning to be free”...
You are not FREE if you are depending on someone else..
Yep. You can be poor on a whole lot less money in El Salvador or Somalia. We have more than ample supply of domestically born slackards. We need not be importing any.
The Statute of Liberty was given by France to the United States to celebrate its hundred years of freedom. It was a celebration of liberty, as in its name, and had nothing to do with immigration.
The poem in praise of garbage dump immigration was placed on it about twenty years later by a one worlder with no official sanction.
You MUST remember, this was a French Sculptor who wrote this, not our Legislation.
Nobody was guaranteed a free ride. You had a chance to succeed, not a guarantee.
And we did not buy into supporting you and your family and your relatives for the rest of your lives.
If you can work, we need workers, if your are an academic, we have a place for you.
We are not your private bank account, where you get free medical, free college, free housing.
Americans don’t get that, why should you. And most importantly, Why should I pay for it???
Just sayin...
Emma Lazarus
A gift from the people of France.
She has watched over New York Harbor since 1886, and on her base is a tablet inscribed with words penned by Emma Lazarus in 1883: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
“Emma Lazarus
A gift from the people of France.”
She was not a gift from the people of France and the poem was placed there in 1903.
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