Justice Department Ends Clinton Rule Giving Welfare to Migrants

[Tall Timbers]

The Department of Justice is closing a Democrat-created bureaucratic loophole that has allowed legal and illegal migrants to get a huge quantity of taxpayer aid since 1997, despite a 1996 law limiting aid to citizens.

The loophole was created by President Bill Clinton’s administration after Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), which was intended to “strengthen… the principle that [legal and illegal] immigrants come to America to work, not to collect welfare benefits.”

“We now retract that [1997] opinion and offer the best reading of the phrase ‘Federal means-tested public benefit,'” President Donald Trump’s Justice Department said on December 16.

Justice Department Ends Clinton Rule Giving Welfare to Migrants

The Justice Department is closing a Democrat-created bureaucratic loophole that has allowed legal and illegal migrants to get welfare since 1997.

www.breitbart.com

 

[dwb]

That's big news and great for America. I believe most Americans are sympathetic towards immigrants, but the immigrants in turn need to assimilate and pay their own way. This creates a mutual respect such as we have for immigrants who came in the right way, contribute to society by working and paying taxes. That's not too much to ask to be part of the greatest nation on earth.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Now, they need to do the same with Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Social Security.

 

[Cheeky200386]

Excellent!