Free of Charge: For Bill de Blasio, newcomers to the U.S. have no obligations.

City Journal ^ | Autumn 2019 | Seth Barron

[karpov]

Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced that it would expand the list of government benefits it considers when defining a person as a “public charge.” Under the new terms, an immigrant receiving, say, food stamps, emergency cash assistance, or living in public housing may see those benefits count against him when he seeks to upgrade or extend his visa status or apply for citizenship.

It was long believed that immigrants to the United States should not impose social burdens and should thus secure local sponsors who could guarantee their expenses until they got settled. The Immigration Act of 1891, for example, excluded from entry “insane persons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons suffering from a loathsome or a dangerous contagious disease,” and other undesirable categories, including felons and polygamists.

Progressive localities have responded furiously to Trump’s directive. New York City and State have joined a lawsuit to prevent the expansion of public-charge criteria, alleging that it reflects animus against nonwhite immigrants. “The ultimate city of immigrants will never stop fighting President Trump’s xenophobic policies,” declared New York City mayor Bill de Blasio. New York attorney general Letitia James called the rule change “a clear violation of our laws and our values” that would make “more children go hungry,” though aid to children was excluded from consideration in the new rule.

A Federal judge in Manhattan issued a nationwide injunction earlier this month, blocking the new rules from going into effect. Judge George B. Daniels said the Trump administration was perverting the intent of the law, and that the rule “is repugnant to the American Dream of the opportunity for prosperity and success through hard work and upward mobility.”

[griswold3]

Immigrants should again be required to have a Sponsor who will be financially responsible for them

[antidemoncrat]

Our grandparents had to have a sponsor before they could migrate into the US and that worked very well. The Democrats are on a course to make us the welfare teat for the world’s poverty stricken. I wonder why...oh yeah. They would all then be Democratic voters.

[leaning conservative]

I agree. Bet things would quickly change. We all say again & again........take care of our people first. It really is simple & common sense.

[Thank You Rush]

“”is repugnant to the American Dream “”

And yet, it worked for many, many years before people like the mayor of NYC decided they KNEW better. It’s really amazing how people like him turn everything on its head to gain WHAT? Beats me!

[griswold3]

It took my German mother two years to come here even though she was a military wife after WWII. Never met anyone prouder to be American