Do you support this?

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would allow officials to disqualify immigrants’ applications based on receipt of federal assistance such as food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers or Medicare and Medicaid drug subsidies.

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Graylight · 51-55, F

Immigrants, legal and illegal, pay millions of dollars in taxes without any benefit of the services for which they're paid.

Sure, let's remove the assistance they receive, which would include housing vouchers, Medicaid, welfare and food stamps. Now we have millions of people who can't adequately feed their children, still require medical attention, may find themselves homeless and will continue to make this their new land. How is it we won't end up not only paying for their needs one way or the other but creating new problems along the way, like increased crime, possible spread of disease, higher healthcare and homelessness?

We've become a nation that once utilized the qualities of mercy and foresight to strengthen the general community but now seeks only to penalize others at every opportunity.

CopperCicada · M

@Graylight I think the whole thing is a non-question and betrays a lack of commitment to really solving the problem of immigration.

IF one REALLY solved the problem of immigration, then there would be people in immigrant status (citizens and green card) and people in non-immigrant status (various visa categories-- B, H, R).

Obviously people in the immigrant status should have access to these services. Fuck. I know people whose wives are in the green card status.

And people in the non-immigrant status have sponsors, contracts, and the applications for these categories require demonstrating how support, including health care, will be provided.

So who are these people that would be impacted by such a law? Clearly not in immigrant or non-immigrant statuses.

And if they are doing farm labor, meat packing, roofing and so on-- they should be in a legitimate non-immigrant visa status and some American corporation is committing labor fraud.