Trump Rolls Out Ban on Welfare-Dependent Immigration to America
New federal regulation stops non-contributing immigrants permanently resettling in the US
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President Donald Trump's administration has rolled out new federal regulations to ban welfare-dependent legal immigrants from permanently resettling in the United States.
The Trump admin started implementing the new measures on Monday that are geared toward stopping non-contributing migrants from moving to America.
The White House has now begun applying what is known as the “Public Charge” rule after the U.S. Supreme Court gave the green light for the regulation.
The rule makes it less likely for legal immigrants to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past.
The listed forms of state-funded welfare include any cash benefits for income maintenance, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, food stamps, Medicaid, and certain taxpayer-funded housing programs.
The new rule is being rolled out nationwide and will favor younger, self-sufficient, healthier, and English-speaking legal immigrants over those who have used at least one form of public welfare for more than 12 months within any 36-month period.
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According to Breitbart, when last asked of their support for the rule, 56 percent of Hispanic Americans said they supported favoring self-sufficient legal immigrants for green cards over welfare-dependent legal immigrants.
The move was also backed by about 6-in-10 of all American voters and 62 percent of all swing voters.
Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli said in a statement that the Public Charge rule is merely a continuation of “longstanding law” dating back to the 1800s.
Most recently in 1996, a rule demanding legal immigrants to be self-sufficient was codified into federal statute but has hardly ever been enforced. Cuccinelli said:
This rule enforces longstanding law requiring aliens to be self-sufficient, reaffirming the American ideals of hard work, perseverance, and determination.
It also offers clarity and expectations to aliens considering a life in the United States and will help protect our public benefits programs.
Foreign nationals arriving in the U.S. as refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking, domestic violence victims, and violent crime victims are not subject to the Public Charge rule.
The big business lobby and corporate interests have denounced the rule because they say they need welfare-dependent legal immigrants coming to the U.S. to grow the economy, create more consumers, and secure a never-ending flow of lower-wage foreign workers.
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The rule is a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.2 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.
In 2017, National Academies of Science noted that state and local American taxpayers are billed about $1,600 each year per immigrant to pay for their welfare and revealed that immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households.
A similar Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) study found that about 63 percent of noncitizen households in the U.S. use at least one form of public welfare, while only about 35 percent of native-born American households are on welfare.
This means that noncitizen households use nearly twice as much welfare as native-born American households.
In California — with the largest noncitizen population in the country at almost 11 million or nearly 30 percent of the state’s total population — more than seven-in-ten, or 72 percent, of noncitizen households are on at least one form of welfare.
Compare that to the findings that only about seven-in-twenty, or 35 percent, of native-born households in California, are on welfare.
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Currently, there is an estimated record high of 44.5 million foreign-born residents living in the U.S.
This is nearly quadruple the immigrant population in 2000.
The vast majority of those arriving in the country every year are low-skilled legal immigrants who compete against working and middle-class Americans for jobs.
