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发帖数: 7021 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: USANews
标 题: trump要给非法移民,非绿卡停发福利
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 25 19:09:28 2017, 美东)
Limiting social services: “Protecting Taxpayer Resources by Ensuring Our
Immigration Laws Promote Accountability and Responsibility”
Libertarians sometimes suggest “building a wall around the welfare state”
instead of the country — restricting access to public benefits to US
citizens. This executive order proposes that President Trump, who’s already
building a wall around the country, build one around the welfare state as
well.
Legal immigrants currently get access to some public benefits in some
circumstances. But the federal government can bar someone from coming to the
US, or from becoming a permanent resident, if there’s any evidence he or
she will become a “public charge.”
Currently, the federal government looks at use of cash benefits (like
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) when it’s making “public charge”
decisions, but not in-kind benefits like Medicaid and the Children’s
Health Insurance Program. This executive action, though, would ask the
Department of Homeland Security to issue a rule saying that an immigrant can
’t be admitted to the US if he’s likely to get any benefit “determined in
any way on the basis of income, resources, or financial need.” Furthermore
, people who use any of those benefits and are in the US on visas would be
subject to deportation.
The order would require the person who sponsored an immigrant into the US to
reimburse the federal government for any benefits the immigrant used. It
would direct the government to publish regular reports on the benefits used
by immigrants in the US — and how that money could be “reinvested” in the
inner cities, something Trump proposed as a candidate.
One of the reports requested in the order would be a report on the cost of
the entire Refugee Assistance Program — the program by which the US helps
refugees get settled, obtain jobs, and learn English. Refugees are
responsible for much of immigrant welfare use in the US, because they’re
not selected for their high earning potential — they’re selected because
of their humanitarian need. But consistent with the forthcoming order
restricting refugee admissions entirely, this memo sees refugees as a drain
on the public coffers.
Unauthorized immigrants aren’t spared by the order: It would prevent
families from getting the child tax credit if the parents are unauthorized (
even if the children are US citizens), and it would prevent an unauthorized
immigrant from being eligible for Social Security during the time he was
unauthorized (even if he was paying into the system, as many do, using a
fake Social Security number). But for the most part, this order doesn’t
crack down on unauthorized immigrants to protect legal immigrants; it cracks
down on immigrants, and their US citizen children, for the sake of the
native-born. | h********o
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