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Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants
NBC news ^ | Aug.07.2018 | Julia Ainsley

Posted on 08/07/2018 7:14:09 AM PDT by sickoflibs

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs, including Obamacare, four sources with knowledge of the plan told NBC News.

The move, which would not need congressional approval, is part of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller's plan to limit the number of migrants who obtain legal status in the U.S. each year.

Details of the rulemaking proposal are still being finalized, but based on a recent draft seen last week and described to NBC News, immigrants living legally in the U.S. who have ever used or whose household members have ever used Obamacare, children's health insurance, food stamps and other benefits could be hindered from obtaining legal status in the U.S.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; immigration
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To: Little Pig

...and Obama-care was structured to force people into it, even if they were part of self-sustaining programs.

It wrecked so much of the infrastructure and the relationship patterns in such a short time.


41 posted on 08/07/2018 7:49:31 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Cboldt; Little Pig
RE:”public welfare programs, including Obamacare
.....
Wait ... Wut? “

I assume they mean the expanded Medicaid under Obamacare

But isnt that what the Left does?

Expand welfare then call those against further expanding it hypocrites?

42 posted on 08/07/2018 7:53:05 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: sickoflibs

“four sources with knowledge” = fabricated “news” with fabricated “sources” if/until proved true ... not worthy of comment other than to note NBC has jumped on the leftist fake stream enemedia bandwagon of increasing the number of fake sources to simulate greater credibility ...


43 posted on 08/07/2018 7:54:22 AM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: sickoflibs
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs, including Obamacare, four sources with knowledge of the plan told NBC News.

Yes! Do it!

44 posted on 08/07/2018 7:54:29 AM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: VanDeKoik
Didn’t these people used to require a sponsor?

Why yes, yes they did. And they had one!


45 posted on 08/07/2018 7:55:59 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: sickoflibs

So Trump is attempting to ensure that when you come to America, that you do not become a permanent drain on the welfare state... The audacity of it is amazing... In Canada Trudeau invited everybody and guess what... They’re coming in droves and surprise, surprise... Taxpayers are getting fed up with it... Trudeau and his government claim that the polls are wrong. Too funny.


46 posted on 08/07/2018 7:56:25 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: sickoflibs

Excellent - we want immigrants who add value to the US, net, not drainers.


47 posted on 08/07/2018 7:56:49 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: sickoflibs

Nearly every other country on Earth has the same or similar rule.


48 posted on 08/07/2018 7:58:28 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: sickoflibs

The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs, including Obamacare

...

That makes sense.

The title, however, is Fake News.


49 posted on 08/07/2018 7:59:58 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: sickoflibs

Actually this is already law. Anyone who has sponsored an immigrant can recall the affidavit of Support form which states that the immigrant must have sufficient resources to avoid the us of any means tested public benefits.


50 posted on 08/07/2018 8:00:06 AM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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To: sickoflibs

That should’ve been the law of the land regardless.

Liberals who need 3rd world voters and that mentality will fume.


51 posted on 08/07/2018 8:00:12 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: sickoflibs

That should’ve been the law of the land regardless.

Liberals who need 3rd world voters and that mentality will fume.


52 posted on 08/07/2018 8:00:14 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Good, immigrants should not be a burden on the citizens, they should be an asset to the country as a whole.

Well, yeah. That's the supposed reason for inviting them here. We are endlessly told they are so much more industrious and harder working than the natives.

I say we even go a step further and do what they do in Japan: require that employers pay them AT LEAST a 10% wage premium over the going rate for people with similar positions. Then, be responsible for their repatriation once it is decided that they are no longer worth said premium.

53 posted on 08/07/2018 8:01:31 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: VanDeKoik
Didn’t these people used to require a sponsor?

Back when this country was sane, sponsorship required the sponsor be financially responsible, including providing them with housing and the living expenses to survive until such time as they got a job and became independent. Most of the sane countries in the world still oberate that way.

Today, sponsorship only requires that you pick them up at the airport, and sign them up for public housing, EBT cards and all the other trappings of a newly minted ward of the state.

54 posted on 08/07/2018 8:05:59 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: rbmillerjr

Bingo. There’s a denial buried in the article.


55 posted on 08/07/2018 8:11:54 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: sickoflibs

#MAGA


56 posted on 08/07/2018 8:12:41 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: sickoflibs

You know what seriously limits citizenship...abortion.


57 posted on 08/07/2018 8:15:34 AM PDT by Leep (Make The Swamp Small Again!)
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To: sickoflibs

Hmmmmmm. I have personal knowledge that it is already being done to locate overstays and deport them.


58 posted on 08/07/2018 8:24:55 AM PDT by gandalftb
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To: sickoflibs

I am “torn” on this considering that I am a legal immigrant to Switzerland. I am required to pay the same taxes as any other person - to include high health insurance. If, after many years of paying such taxes, I were to loose my job, take unemployment until I got a new one and then continued to pay taxes - I see no reason to deny citizenship on that basis alone.

The inclusion of Obamacare is also “troubling” as many were more or less forced into it - holding that against them would seem unfair.

OTOH, if someone were to currently be on benefits - or as the Swiss put it “for a longer period and in considerable amounts” - these would be grounds to deny citizenship or even revoke residency. That is fair as it allows for the unforeseen.


59 posted on 08/07/2018 8:30:52 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: Parmy
I agree. My father was a legal immigrant. He led a productive life and served in WW II. My mother's parents were immigrants. Her father worked as a coal miner, and her mother ran a boarding house for coal miners. My wife is an immigrant.

People who add something to the USA should be welcomed. It's those who enter illegally and leech off the taxpayer who should be sent home promptly, without any legal delays.

60 posted on 08/07/2018 8:31:32 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney
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