The Trump administration reverses the terrible policies of the Democrat Party.
They have just closed a loophole from the Clinton era that allowed migrants to receive welfare.
The Department of Justice has closed a bureaucratic loophole created by Democrats that allowed illegal and legal migrants to receive a large amount of taxpayer assistance since 1997, despite a law passed in 1996 that limited aid to citizens.
The loophole in the law was created by the Clinton administration following the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1997 (PRWORA), a law that was passed to “strengthen the principle” that immigrants, both legal and illegal, come to America for work and not to receive welfare benefits.
The Justice Department of President Donald Trump said that on December 16, “We retract our 1997 opinion and provide the best interpretation of the phrase Federal means-tested public benefits.”
Legal and illegal migrants are no longer eligible to receive welfare, housing or healthcare subsidies and other programs. This aid cutoff is likely to force more illegal migrants — particularly families — home, as many of them cannot afford housing, healthcare, food and other expenses.
According to an estimation by Steven Camarota & Karen Zeigler 52.5% “households headed up by legal immigrants that have not naturalized” receive welfare benefits.
Only 35.9% native-born households receive these benefits
PRWORA has largely failed to fulfill its promise made to American taxpayers regarding the burden of immigration. Steven Camarota, Karen Zeigler and I estimated that by 2022 – a quarter century after PRWORA was enacted – 52.5 percent households headed up by legal immigrants (mostly LPRs), who were not naturalized, would receive welfare benefits. This compares to 35.9 % of households headed up by native-born Americans.
Why? It is because, in a large part, the Clinton White House wanted to calm a Democrat base that was angry about President Bill Clinton signing PRWORA. They decreed that only federal programs with means-tested benefits would be subjected to the waiting period of five years, but not discretionary ones. Mandatory benefits will be paid regardless of the amount of money Congress appropriates, while discretionary benefits can only be given until all funds are exhausted.
Promises made, promises kept!
