Trump is clearly right: We don’t need new immigrants headed directly to welfare

The New York Post ^ | October 15, 2019 | Betsy McCaughey

[2ndDivisionVet]

President Trump’s key immigration rule change, to discourage immigrants from relying on public health programs, food stamps, housing assistance and other welfare, got derailed Friday by three federal judges. Their decisions, blocking Trump’s rule from going into effect, are wins for Democrats and immigration lobbyists. America’s poor are the losers.

Our country needs to take care of our own needy first.

Trump’s proposed rule would make it harder for immigrants who use welfare to qualify for green cards and give preference to those who fend for themselves. The rule would also require visa applicants to show they won’t use welfare if they’re let in the country.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Typical bi-coastal Democrat: That's racist!

[Pelham]

How about we deport all of the ones here who are currently forcing us to support them with our taxes?

In California alone it’s in the billions.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Go back to Bulgaria.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I really hate what Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama have done to my country.

[Buttons12]

Since we can’t deport these federal judges, maybe we need a better, faster method of overriding their asinine decisions.

[Lurkinanloomin]

We should deport ALL illegal aliens.

[SkyDancer]

That’s why they come here; free everything and in return they bring their diseases which we’ve eliminated.

[Pelham]

Who’s the Bulgarian?

[jdsteel]

...got TEMPORARILY derailed Friday by three federal judges.

Fixed it.

[BradyLS]

...And we never did. In the 1900’s, there was no welfare state to coddle and hammock immigrants. You came, you found work—anything—ASAP. You struggled, your kids did better, and you made the best of it.

Today? Work, schmerk. Maybe you have one bread-winner and the rest of the family are plugged into assistance. Want to be hooked up? There’s an assistance program ready to issue checks to just about anyone.

I saw one guy at the grocery who was from who-knows-where with an inches-thick _deck_ of credit cards. Just kept handing them to the cashier one after the other until one finally took.

[castlebrew]

“How about we deport all of the ones here who are currently forcing us to support them with our taxes? In California alone it’s in the billions.”

...and that’s just the politicians. </rimshot>

[SunkenCiv]

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[Mastador1]

Funny it wasn't racist when millions of immigrants had to have a legally responsible sponsor prior to entering the country and had to swear an oath to neither seek or accept ANY government aid,state or federal for a period of five years, with the penalty for violating it being deportation. And it didn't matter if they had a baby or babies during that time, they had to be responsible and pay for the doctors, hospital, healthcare and food all on their own. Now the G Damn democrats use taxpayer funds to teach people how to illegally enter America and leach off of Americans and legal immigrants.

[GOPJ]

I really hate what Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama have done to my country.

Our 'elites' betrayed the country so they could be 'heroes in their own minds'... and so they could 'gift' their donors with an endless supply of cheap labor.