Trump’s chief immigration restrictionist Stephen Miller strikes again. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images In a long-proposed and highly controversial policy change sure to attract a host of lawsuits, the Trump administration is moving ahead with a proposed new regulation expanding restrictions on federally funded cash benefits for large groups of legal immigrants to include non-cash benefits like food stamps, health-care benefits, and housing assistance.
Aside from expanding the scope of benefits that can lead to a rejected visa or green-card application, the new rule would redefine the amount of public assistance that would trigger the “public charge” label from half of total income to a flat amount representing 15 percent of the federal poverty line, or, at current levels, $1,821. So we’re not talking about a lot of assistance.
Monday’s regulation is likely to meet legal challenges, but it could still cause some who fear retribution to alter their daily lives.About one in seven adults in immigrant families reported that either the person or a family member did not participate in a non-cash safety net program last year because of fear of risking his or her green card status in the future, an Urban Institute study found.
There’s a broader difference of perspective this approach reflects: between those who believe public assistance, especially of the non-cash variety, is a good in itself in terms of its impact on public health and economic opportunity, and those who view this safety net as inherently corrosive of individual initiative and a form of redistribution of the hard-earned resources of U.S. citizens toward the undeserving poor, immigrant or native.
Looking forward to when life for StevenMillerFascist and RealDonaldTrump PresidentCrimeBoss is made as miserable as possible.
fake news
If you put the money fromyour pocket!!
They're making life miserable for ALL of us.
In Europe migration to get better social benefits is called 'benefit tourism'.
Autarkh Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! ... Nah, jk, fuck you I got mine!
Reminder that immigrants, both legal and unauthorized, are taxpayers. That frequently gets lost in these discussions.
All this time, I never knew the President had this much power. All the talk about a beautiful elaborate experiment of democracy set up by the “founding fathers”. Reality is we have a GD monarchy.
When this administration is done, where the hell are all these disgusting ppl gonna work? They better be shunned, I’ll remember every shitty thing they’ve done!
Not for 'immigrants', for immigrants of color.
Why would this headline be so negative “miserable” why not say trying to get them to be self-sufficient
Stephen Miller just be tried in The Hague for CrimesAgainstHumanity
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