Posted on 09/12/2021 8:08:47 AM PDT by Enlightened1
As thousands of Afghan migrants are being processed and transferred to the United States, the White House is requesting Congress make welfare benefits available to Afghan nationals paroled into the nation.
During the chaotic US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan as the Taliban took over the nation, US troops helped evacuate more than 116,000 people from Kabul, including 6,000 Americans.
This week, the White House asked Congress for $6.4 billion in funds to help resettle the Afghan evacuees. Part of the funding would go towards authorizing Afghan evacuees who have been paroled into the United States and cleared background checks or screenings to receive welfare benefits and qualify for a driver’s license or ID card. To be eligible, all individuals must have been paroled in the US between July 30 and Sept. 30 of this year.
All who are eligible would be subject to additional background checks and screenings at any time by Homeland Security.
By being granted parole, these individuals will have a year-long grace period to apply for asylum or other visas. The language change requested would seemingly make it easier for Afghan refugees to settle in the US, by providing English training and placing them in jobs, and for the migrants to receive “entitlement programs”
“Without the anomaly, paroled individuals from Afghanistan would not be eligible for resettlement assistance, entitlement programs such as Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food assistance, and other benefits,” the White House outlined in their request. “The language also authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to adjust the status of these individuals to that of a lawful permanent resident upon meeting requisite criteria.”
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Stolen elections have consequences.
FU Joe Biden
You just know the repubs will be jumping all over this to approve it. We can just barrow the money from china.
Right?
Welfare for life plus a green card hell of a long list it’s the only way the left gets votes bribe or rig.
WTF?!
You haven’t properly funded the actual citizens of the United States of America - let alone the veterans that fought YOUR WARS - but now we’re supposed to pay for your guilt because you destroyed a nation and made it unlivable?!
F that.
Regretfully there will be no solution, as is the design, till the law abiding become outlaws.
Hold up. They will qualify for driver’s licenses and IDs? Isn’t this the same party that lambasted voter ID laws, insinuating that CITIZENS are unable to obtain IDs required to prove who they are so they can vote?
Color me confused /s
The article states for a year.
Can we move all of them to Freemont?
Why would they need English training? They were interpreters. If they don’t speak English they are not interpreters and need to go back.
Just more proof that Joe has finally figured out he NEEDS money BUT AFTER a decision has been made... Cart/horse - or is it horse/cart. In this case, donkey!
What’s this “parole” monkey business? When are they going to get tired of looking stupid???
I’m going to go out and buy a new car this afternoon and when I get home, I will figure out where the money is going to come from! Having been born in the U.S., I don’t suppose the government would consider buying it for me???
They were actually in danger and real refugees (the ones who aren’t isis and taliban plants) unlike the millions who walk across the southern border to get on welfare from the stupid gringo.
BREAKING: More BS from the Reconciliation Bill !!
What a coinkydink.
Perfectly stated. You nailed it.
Make them speak SPANGLISH like the other illegals.....
Saw that with the first one to set foot on US soil.
~100,000 Afghans
$6.4 billion
That’s about $64,000 per Afghan.
Resettlement shouldn’t cost much more than $6,000/individual adult or $12,000/family.
Perhaps:
Green card
one year US passport
state driver’s license manual
list of DMV test centers
taxpayer ID number
trust account of $5,000 individual/$10,000 family
VISA debit card of $800/$1600
$200 cash per adult, $100 cash per teenager
SNAP card for one year
Medicaid card for one year
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