Trump To End Illegal Immigrant Welfare Scams

TrumpConservative Zone – Hard-working, low-income immigrant families can take a breath of fresh air now that President Donald Trump has expanded a federal rule ending welfare scams for people who are in the country illegally. For too long, Americans have been taken advantage of by non-citizens scamming the system.

Democrats and biased media outlets are already unleashing false propaganda that the Trump Administration is excluding working-class immigrants from lawfully becoming U.S. citizens. Nothing could be further from the truth.

“Through the public charge rule, President Trump’s administration is reinforcing the ideal of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility, ensuring that immigrants are able to support themselves and become successful in America,” acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli said.

The loophole that allowed illegals to penetrate the border and lie around like deadbeats while American taxpayers pay for their lifestyles has acted as a magnet. Liberal extremist Democrats have used the lure of “free stuff” to draw Central Americans to assault the U.S.-Mexico border knowing the life of milk and honey awaits them. The days of milking the system are fast coming to a close, and already thousands of dependent, welfare-bound migrants are being returned to their home country or a suitable third option.

Under the “public charge” rule, the policy was originally used to prevent illegal and dependent migrants from accessing only taxpayer cash benefits such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income. But since the 1990s, the federal government has broken up entitlement and assistance programs into sub-groups that did not directly provide cash. The non-cash benefits were used as a backdoor to circumvent the intent of the public charge rule, which was to deliver taxpayer-funded benefits to American citizens only.

Federal immigration guidelines would now take into account whether green card, visa, and other applicants would become “primarily dependent on the government for subsistence.”

Ignoring the fact that welfare programs are paid for on the backs of everyday Americans’ labor, sidestepping the public charge rule emerged as one of the most grotesquely expensive scams in American history. The president has restored the intent and integrity of the rule by rightly applying it to all taxpayer benefits. Even a cursory glance at the enormous amount of wealth being scammed by immigrants is shocking. The following is a 2014 breakdown from the Center for Immigration Studies.

♦  63 percent of non-citizen households take some form of tax-funded welfare

♦  31 percent of non-citizen households take tax-funded cash

♦  45 percent of non-citizen households take tax-funded food programs

♦  50 percent of non-citizens enjoy Medicaid paid for by American citizens

In California’s so-called “sanctuary cities,” non-citizens now comprise upwards of 30 percent of the population, and nearly 70 percent are reportedly scamming the welfare system for at least one taxpayer-funded program. That figure is double the number of citizens claiming a government benefit.

SF Source Conservative Zone Sep 2019

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