New U.S. Government Policy Denies Grden Cards to Immigrants on Public Assistance
If immigrants are withdrawing from public assistance to make them eligible for green cards why were they on it in the first place because clearly they did not need it?:
Immigrants applying to live permanently in the United States can be rejected if they receive public benefits, beginning this week.
Use of Medicaid, food stamps, tuition assistance and free school lunch programs, among other government assistance, could all be grounds for denying a green-card application.
The policy from President Donald Trump’s administration, which took effect Friday, marks a dramatic change to a long-standing federal policy consistent with the president’s efforts to restrict legal immigration pathways.
The rule could reduce federal and state payments by $13 billion a year, by persuading some 950,000 people to disenroll from or avoid federal safety net programs, according to estimates from the Department of Homeland Security. The agency said that the rule aligns with Congress’s intent that noncitizens “in the United States be self-sufficient and not dependent on taxpayer-funded government benefits.”
“Aliens in the United States should be self-reliant,” a DHS policy document for the rule states, “and government benefits should not incentivize immigration.”
You can read more at the link, but of course the Democrat states are suing to keep these people dependent on welfare so they keep voting Democrat. .
