US Govt promoting food stamps for illegal immigrants?

Question

This is ANOTHER slap in the face to middle-class Americans. This is being promoted on spanish TV. Please show your indignation by writing the "elected class" What's next take them into our homes so they can literally, instead of figuratively, cut out throats?http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2006/10/us_promotes_food_stamps_for_il.h

sorry about link - I'm almost computer illiterate! Link on 1st answer is good. Thx Mark

Answer 1

You know what?? Illegal immigrants are making fools out of Americans!! Where else in the world could an illegal or whatever show up and get free stuff? No- they'd get shot or hauled to jail. But in America we give hand outs to criminals that are clearly breaking the law!

This is why people hate illegal immigrants.

Answer 2

Remember this when the issue of AgJobs comes up again after the election.

It is one thing to have a program like the H2B visa for seasonal only workers where the employer has to provide housing and health care and the worker has to be truly seasonal.

It is quite another for Agriculture to say 'you can afford to live on the slave wages we pay you - just go for the free food!'

I knew that is in EFFECT what they were doing with the AgJob proposal which would give a path to citizenship to anyone who works in agriculture for 3 years. They are saying they don't want to pay enough, they are going to barter lifelong subsidies from the American taxpayer to bolster their 'benefit package'.

But this is much more blatant.

Answer 3

that may no longer achieveable.you need to get a social secure practices card.Which they might under a green card.yet,it could have letters after the huge type.that ought to be conscious them as no longer american.thus no nutrition stamps. huge type 2,human beings do no longer want to feed the unfavourable/ought to take that up with God.an clarify their point of view.

Answer 4

It's been going on for a long time and we pay for it!

$2.2 BILLION DOLLARS a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

Answer 5

THis has been going on for a long time.
There free lunches given in schools , the govt is spending millions of dollars trying to educate these people.
Do you know where the chunk of the money is going in the school districts.it goes to Tittle one and and to ESL:.
ESL...english language learners.........and where do they come from........???
Giving them food stamps which they might anyways be getting is no surprise to me.....They use Fake SSN so who is topping them from fake ids to get food stamps..........

Answer 6

Your link is broken. Here's the correct one:

http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2006/10/

I think it's disgusting. Yours and my tax dollars at work.

Answer 7

Why should this surprise you? Big business interests here in the U.S. wants illegal workers.

Answer 8

I watch Spanish language TV and have never seen anything remotely related to what you claim. Just because an announcement is in Spanish does not mean it is meant to be towards illegal immigrants...and even though the commercial says "it will not affect you immigrant status" does not mean that illegal immigrants are elidgeable! It just means that even though you came legally and have a sponser, you may still qualify for food stamps. That you will not lose your papers for trying.

Answer 9

bad link

Answer 10

I cant get your link please post it again if you can,thanks for the link
Shaking my head at this new/old stupidity

U.S. Promotes Food Stamps For Illegals
Friday, October 13, 2006

The United States Department of Agriculture is spending taxpayer money to run Spanish-language television ads encouraging illegal immigrants to apply for government-financed food stamps.

The federal agency, which claims to provide leadership on food, agriculture and natural resources based on sound public policy, is working to promote its food stamp program in the Latino communities with a costly series of ads on the nation’s largest Spanish-language network, Los Angeles-based Univision.

A few years ago the Department of Agriculture’s Division of Food and Nutrition Service made a deal with the Mexican Embassy to jointly distribute informative brochures and create public service announcement informing Mexican migrants of the free food program for the poor.

Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro even starred in some of the U.S. Government-financed television commercials, which explain the program and provide a phone number to apply. In the widely viewed commercial, Ortiz Haro assures that receiving food stamps “won’t affect your immigration status.”

Indeed, food stamp recipients do not have to prove immigration status as per Department of Agriculture guidelines. In fact, they say that states distributing the assistance must comply with the provision of the federal Privacy Act which says states are prohibited from denying an individual any right, benefit or privilege because of an individual’s refusal to disclose his or her social security number.

With these assurances from their own government official as well as U.S. authorities, it’s no surprise that the number of food stamp recipients has risen dramatically in the areas covered by the promotional U.S.-Mexico campaign. One Southern California county alone reported hundreds of calls when the commercials first aired. Many others are sure to follow.
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Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household.

Among the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).

With nearly two-thirds of illegal aliens lacking a high school degree, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their legal status or heavy use of most social services.

On average, the costs that illegal households impose on federal coffers are less than half that of other households, but their tax payments are only one-fourth that of other households.

Many of the costs associated with illegals are due to their American-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth. Thus, greater efforts at barring illegals from federal programs will not reduce costs because their citizen children can continue to access them.

If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes and use services like households headed by legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual net fiscal deficit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 billion.

Costs increase dramatically because unskilled immigrants with legal status -- what most illegal aliens would become -- can access government programs, but still tend to make very modest tax payments.

Although legalization would increase average tax payments by 77 percent, average costs would rise by 118 percent.

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