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    Default Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.8ab51f71fa57

    Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration, which is seeking to reduce the number of foreigners living in the United States.

    According to a draft of the proposal obtained by The Washington Post, immigration caseworkers would be required to consider a much broader range of factors when determining whether immigrants or their U.S.-citizen children are using public benefits or may be likely to do so.

    Current rules penalize immigrants who receive cash welfare payments, considering them a “public charge.” But the proposed changes from the Department of Homeland Security would widen the government’s definition of benefits to include the widely used Earned Income Tax Credit as well as health insurance subsidies and other “non-cash public benefits.”

    The changes would apply to those seeking immigration visas, or legal permanent residency, such as a foreigner with an expiring work visa. While it would make little difference to those living illegally in the shadows, it could affect immigrants protected by the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — whose termination has been blocked by federal courts — if they attempt to file for full legal residency.

    Immigrants and their families facing a short-term crisis could potentially have to forgo help to avoid jeopardizing their U.S. residency status. The proposal would also require more immigrants to post cash bonds if they have a higher probability of needing or accepting public benefits. The minimum bond amount would be $10,000, according to the DHS proposal, but the amount could be set higher if an applicant is deemed at greater risk of neediness.
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    Default Re: Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits

    WaPO..... reducing immigrants??? No, reducing ILLEGAL immigrants.....they act like there's no distinction.......they wear their effed up agenda on their sleeve.....obvious to even the dumbest observer.
    Its easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled....Mark Twain

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    Default Re: Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits

    Mandatory self sufficiency for them is a fine as far as I'm concerned. We're operating so deeply in thee red we need to cut losses as much as we can.
    Gender confusion is a mental illness

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    Default Re: Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits

    .

    according to the IRS from 2011 to 2014 illegals stole and used 1.8 million social security numbers to use to get jobs and other benefits.


    zero prosecutions
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    Default Re: Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits

    During the mass immigration in the late 1800's and early 1900's, one the provisos was that the subject was "unlikely to become a public charge".
    Now they come here with the express intention To Become a Public Charge.
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