That said, it appears that Trump may implement a welfare wall. Something I have called for often here at EPJ.
Vox reports:
The Washington Post obtained two draft executive orders the Trump administration is reportedly considering, both of which (in title and content) resemble documents Vox wrote about and published last week...I would support Trump on such an order though I repeat, I am suspicious of his attitude toward immigrants in general. A welfare wall, yes, but only a welfare wall.
The draft dealing with legal immigrants’ use of social services could have further-reaching implications for legal immigrants currently in the US than anything the president’s already signed...
Legal immigrants currently get access to some public benefits in some circumstances. But the federal government — already, under existing law — 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 — according to the draft obtained by Vox, which seems consistent with the Post’s reporting — 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.”...
People who use any of those benefits and are in the US on visas would be subject to deportation. And the order would even require the person who sponsored an immigrant into the US to reimburse the federal government for any benefits the immigrant used...
Whether or not this particular executive order is signed, “walling off the welfare state” from immigrants in the US may well remain in the White House’s sights.
-RW
You are suspicious because you were brainwashed well by the media, and probably also because you are not very smart
ReplyDeleteThe lack of suspicion is the indicator of brainwashing
DeleteWhile I do generally enjoy the hell out of both of your blogs, even when I disagree, it seems lately that you are following the MSM trend of knee-jerk reactions to everything. Now that Trump is doing basically exactly what you have suggested, you have to be suspicious of his "attitude."
ReplyDeleteYou should give credit where it is due, like I'm about to do.
At least the title of the thread wasn't "OMG: Trump follows EPJ Advice!"
Re: Rob,
DeleteThe point was not to exclude immigrants from receiving welfare or benefits by threatening them. The point is to end the entitlement state.
Besides the issue that 'immigrants' receive benefits is a red herring. Permanent residents are eligible for benefits after 5 years of proven residency. Non-resident aliens with a work visa are not eligible. So-called 'illegal' immigrants are not eligible at all. In essence, El Señor Presidente Bananero Trumpo wants to keep the entitlement state, just not for icky foreigners.
Most pre-1965 Americans don't want mass immigration. Do they have a say?
ReplyDeleteHope not
DeleteThis would be great, particularly because it would remove the segregationists' go-to excuse for trying to dictate where people are allowed to move.
ReplyDeleteI just wonder what their next excuse will be. "Muh culture!!!"
Import the 3rd world. Get the 3rd world.
DeleteDo you think you can just walk into another country and live there without the permission of the people that live there? Guess what? They don't want you.
DeleteI hate the Irish too. US has gone downhill since they mass immigrated. Whole country is like a huge Irish pub now. Sad!
Delete@Matt
DeleteSo because other states restrict freedom, that makes it OK?
Sounds like a great move! We should deport as many as possible. I know some 'Muricans that paid their taxes and such over the years, but can't get help because they are old white males and don't have a brood of bastards.
ReplyDeleteSo maybe RW and others could tell me more about their insatiable appetite for Somali immigration for example and why they are not moving to a Somali neighborhood?
How am I a "coercive people herder" when I'm advocating for individual self-determination and against state-mandated segregation? That's a pretty Orwellian charge to make.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I'm familiar with the Hoppe/Block debate. Hoppe's public library analogy is nothing but question-begging IMO. And I agree with Block that immigrants have a relatively stronger claim to public land than does the government.