Posted on 09/23/2018 3:20:16 PM PDT by caww
The Trump administration formally announced late Saturday a long-anticipated proposal to change a public rule to potentially favor legal immigrants in the United States who are applying for green cards and those applying to enter the country on visas who have not used or do not have plans to use public benefits, including Medicaid, food stamps, and public housing.
“Under long-standing federal law, those seeking to immigrate to the United States must show they can support themselves financially,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in a statement. “This proposed rule will implement a law passed by Congress intended to promote immigrant self-sufficiency and protect finite resources by ensuring that they are not likely to become burdens on American taxpayers.”
Foreigners applying for or renewing visas who receive or would likely receive certain public benefits would be "generally ineligible" for admission or an extension to stay.
The rule is expected to be published in the Federal Register in the next few weeks. The public will then have 60 days to comment on the proposal.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
That’s the way it was when you entered Ellis Island. You had a sponsor or job and were NOT dependent on handouts.
A lowly judge will block it & declare unconstitutional
Step 1
It’s just a start, and will be bitterly resisted
Go Trump!
Doesn’t New Zealand expect a prospective immigrant to show a net worth of US$250?
When did they start intentionally ignoring the law??
I had to sign the financial responsibility form guaranteeing for 10 years my wife would not become a public charge?
Thought that was already the law...
And NO past history of having broken ANY US laws!
sounds like a great idea
like other countries, such as Mexico and Canada
As former immigrant I am shocked to know there’re such an immigrant today who are dependent on us government. Time has changed
$250 ???
My immigrant wife had to sign (amid an inch of paperwork) an assurance that she would not be a burden on the state. Strange how something so important so got lost.
About the same time the left found it convenient to hold the child born of an illegal alien had birthright privileges per the 14th A; even though such was expressly not intended at the time of passage of the A.
I had to sign the financial responsibility form guaranteeing for 10 years my wife would not become a public charge?
That is because you and your wife were lawful and visible and thus subject to law enforcement. Millions of illegals become so entrenched in our communities that the Socialist Dems find it convenient to not only not deport them but to give them the right to vote (for the Socialist Dems).
The subtitle for "MAGA" could well be "Returning to Our Senses".
Well, they have borders to specify they are countries...
Yes! So this is great news and how it should be.
Under Obama anything was a go!
Under Obama anything was a go!
Watch the liberals cry that Trump enforcing a very old law is mean and heartless.
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