Posted on 06/06/2017 2:04:46 PM PDT by mdittmar
NEW YORK (AP) -- A crackdown on illegal immigration under President Donald Trump has driven some poor people to take a drastic step: opt out of federal food assistance because they are fearful of deportation, activists and immigrants say.
People who are not legal residents of the U.S. are not eligible to take part in what is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
But many poor families include a mix of non-legal residents and legal ones, such as children who have citizenship because they were born in the U.S. In those cases, it is often an adult who is not a legal resident who submits the application.
Some now feel that is too dangerous under a president who has made immigration enforcement a priority. Throughout the U.S., there are accounts of people resisting efforts of nonprofit organizations to sign them up for food stamps, letting benefits lapse or withdrawing from the program because of the perceived risk.
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LOL. Good choice of songs for this topic!
Who cares? Who writes this crap? What part of not being here illegally and sucking up our resources do they not get?
I have been traveling and was reading one of the local papers. The two prominent headlines were about how the locals do not appreciate immigrants enough and how maligned the LGBTQ were being picked on.
The fact that they have been makes me hand to rip my hair out.
The budget is auto-balancing. I like it!!
Get them out of our cash strapped public schools...
Winning
Thanks for that info. It’s still infuriating, though, that they’re coming here illegally and then giving birth to kids they can’t afford, just to get food stamps.
I thought illegal aliens were not getting food stamps
WIN!!!
Don't whine to me that your child, who, being a US Citizen through the grace of our stupid laws, should benefit off of my back, with my hard earned tax money.
YOU, the illegal mama, came here in direct and blatant violation of the law, dropped your spawn and now get upset that although we will assist in caring for the child, will use said assistance to remove YOUR illegal ass from the country.
A conundrum if there ever was.
You can solve it, mama...just pack up everything and take your illegal ass back to the third world sewer you came from.
YOUR PROBLEM IS NOT MY PROBLEM AND I DID NOT CREATE YOUR PROBLEM.
Hard-hearted bastard that I am, I cannot see any other way to deal with it.
Sorry.
Not.
I will not get tired of winning.
5.56mm
Oh I agree. I’d go even further and say their kids should NOT be citizens just because they snuck in.
No, we shouldn't and I don't. Let them earn their meals not get them free from me and my children.
The whole program should be eliminated.
You’re an idiot. I’ve worked as an eligibility worker too. Those FS are going INTO THE HOUSEHOLD. Prove to me that the food purchased with those FS is being consumed ONLY by the American born minors!
OBVIOUSLY, any food brought into the HH is being consumed by ALL in the HH!
If they’re here illegally, they should not be living off the backs of the U.S. taxpayers. America already has an overabundance of “poor” people to care for.
I’m not an idiot. I didn’t say the illegals aren’t consuming them. Jeez! I didn’t even say that I agree with the program. I was pointing out that the illegal parents themselves are not included in the amount of food stamps a family draws and are not listed as recipients.
Reading comprehension is not your forte or you’re just looking to call someone names. Careful or you’ll pop a blood vessel.
As soon as fear turns into panic,
Hunger will turn into self-deportation.
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