FIGHTING BACK: A group of Senate Republicans is seeking to end Joe Biden’s welfare-dependent legal immigration inflow.
“… it is fair and sensible to favor prospective new citizens who will not be reliant on government benefits,” Marshall said in a statement.
“We have millions of our own American citizens without health insurance and receiving SNAP benefits, as well as hundreds of thousands sleeping on the streets at night,” Rep. Troy Nehls , who has filed the identical version in the House, said. “Biden continues to exacerbate the issue.Sens. Ted Budd , Mike Braun , Mike Crapo , Ted Cruz , Bill Hagerty , Josh Hawley , Cindy Hyde-Smith , Mike Lee , James Risch , and Rick Scott are cosponsoring the resolution.
Reps. Mike Johnson , Andy Biggs , and Andy Ogles are cosponsoring Nehls’ House version of the resolution. When Trump first issued the public charge rule in 2019, polls found that the policy was overwhelmingly popular with Americans. AboutAmericans said they supported ending welfare-dependent legal immigration, including 56 percent of Hispanics and 71 percent of black Americans.
In 2017, the National Academies of Science noted that state and local taxpayers are billed about $1,600 each year per immigrant to pay for their welfare and revealed that foreign-born households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than native-born American households.of non-U.S. citizen immigrant households use at least one form of public welfare, while only about 35 percent of native-born American households are on welfare. This means that nearly twice as many non-U.S.
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