Posted on 06/06/2017 4:40:54 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
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.
“They don’t want to put their name and address on a form for a government public benefit out of fear that they’ll be sought out and asked to leave,” said Teresa Smith, executive director of Catholic Charities of Orange County, California.
The food stamp program provides monthly payments, typically about $125 per eligible household member, to poor families to buy essential staples. Going without can be an extreme decision, advocates say.
“This means less food on the table, fewer meals in houses where the kids have rights because they are U.S. citizens,” said Andrew Hammond, an attorney for Chicago’s Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
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What next the horror of being afraid to drive without insurance or to vote? Maybe these interlopers should just GTFO.
“That is why getting rid of the anchor baby provision is so important,”
In the meantime let it be known that the “citizen” children will be adopted out and the illegal parents deported. There will be a real stampede for the border then.
I understand what you’re saying, but LEGAL immigrants are supposed to assimilate into AMERICAN CULTURE, much as say, my Great Grandparents did when they came here from Germany and England, Poland and Ireland.
You are to be an ASSET to America, not a burden or an expense to Her.
Learn the language. Get a job. Work hard. Pay taxes.
Generation after generation of lazy, illegal layabouts that WON’T assimilate, not to mention terrorists and spies and home-grown whack jobs, INFLUENCED by the above. That’s not good for ANY country.
See current-day Europe for a GLARING EXAMPLE of what NOT to do!
I know. I’m MEAN as a Junkyard Dawg. Well, too bad. :)
It’s no fun being an illegal alien-
Genesis
Got out of bed, wasn’t feeling too good
With my wallet and my passport, a new pair of shoes
The sun is shining so I head for the park,
With a bottle of Tequila, and a new pack of cigarettes
I got a cousin and she got a friend,
Who thought that her aunt knew a man who could help
At his apartment I knocked on the door,
He wouldn’t come out until he got paid.
Now don’t tell anybody what I wanna do
If they find out you know that they’ll never let me through.
It’s no fun being an illegal alien
It’s no fun being an illegal alien
Down at the office had to fill out the forms
A pink one, a red one, the colours you choose,
Up to the counter to see what they think
They said ‘It doesn’t count man, it ain’t written in ink’.
Don’t trust anybody least not around here, cause
It’s not fun being an illegal alien,
It’s not fun being an illegal alien,
It’s not fun being an illegal alien,
It’s not fun being an illegal alien,
An illegal alien, O.K.
Consideration for your fellow man
Wouldn’t hurt anybody, sure fits in with my plan
Over the border, there lies the promised land
So don’t tell anybody what I wanna do
If they find out you know that they’ll never let me through.
It’s no fun being an illegal alien,
It’s no fun being an illegal alien,
It’s no fun being an illegal alien,
It’s no fun being an illegal alien.
Last time i checked, Mexico had plenty of food.
“The workaround is to have an anchor baby. The baby, a US citizen, gets the food stamps. The parents, illegal aliens, get the checks. So illegals can and do get welfare benefits.
That is why getting rid of the anchor baby provision is so important”
Worth repeating. They can work under the table for cash, show little income, and qualify for baby anchor benefits. It’s one of the reasons they have so many kids.
Yesterday at Walmart, there was a MIE couple holding up the line while the WIC checks were entered, their food stamp card swiped and finally, the man pulled out his cell phone and the cashier scanned something off of it.
They paid ZERO.
Oh, and the hijabed woman was holding the hand of a young child, was holding an infant and she was pregnant.
ME, not MIE
SO, you are here illegally. You are committing fraud to collect welfare ILLEGALLY. YOU'RE A CRIMINAL and should be treated like one. BOO HOO
Too bad so sad
Another liberal *sob* story. They aren’t supposed to be getting welfare.
Is something wrong with Free Republic again. I can’t get it to fully load.
Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all.
Another narrative nuked by its own purveyors.
Now that the illegals have to pay for food it will cut into the amount of money the wire back to Mexico.
They MUST be SWIMMING in Avocados, at a minimum. I can eat 2-3 of those beauties a day! ;)
Are we supposed to feel sorry for criminals that shouldn’t be getting them in the first place?
“Now that the illegals have to pay for food it will cut into the amount of money the wire back to Mexico.”
From every Walmart, in every town across the Nation! Our little Cow Town has a special area all set up JUST TO DO THAT!
I told Beau that ICE needs to set up at all of the Walmarts and a lot of the dollars leaving America...wouldn’t be!
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