Posted on 03/17/2017 8:10:04 AM PDT by pgkdan
Immigrants are canceling their food stamps over fears they could be deported.
Food banks and hunger advocates around the country from Tuscon to Baltimore have noticed a decline in the number of eligible immigrants applying for food stamps and a rise in the number of immigrants seeking to cancel their food stamps since President Trump’s inauguration two months ago, the Washington Post reported.
Advocates on behalf of these immigrants say that their fear stems from the possibility that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would notice their participation in the food stamp program and deny them U.S. citizenship or deport them.
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Advocates for reforming the welfare system say that immigrants, both illegal and legal, have too much access to public benefits and take more out of the system than they pay into it.
“I don’t think it’s proper to increase the burden on U.S. taxpayers for people whose only claim to them is that they broke our law,” said Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “These children receive a large amount of benefits because their parents came here illegally.”
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A yuge win, as most illegal households can’t survive without government handouts.
Guess they’ll have to pack the truck and head back to Mexico. That’s a shame...
Less need for food stamps = less need for advocates = fewer moocher and looters = Win win.
Pitchforks and torches. It's time.
Immigrants NOT supposed to receive food stams. Their legal Sponsors have to fend for them FIRST !!!
and the only way but when?
When the pressure forces us into the streets. We'll know when that is.
Listening to Rush about an hour ago, and he was making the same point I've been making since the first E.O. was stopped by the Seattle judge, and that is, the judiciary is essentially obliterating the power, authority, and sovereignty of the Executive Branch by pure fiat.
Something has to be done about it, and it won't be done by the offending branch of government, which puts the ball back into the court of the other two branches and the people.
I think we're observing a sort of response lag, while the gravity and import of all this sinks in across the boards. This is why the pitchforks haven't come out yet. We're in the discussion stage, so let's keep talking to one another and anyone else who will listen.
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