President Trump: Immigrants Will Not Be Able To Qualify For Welfare For Five Years - Granite Grok

President Trump: Immigrants Will Not Be Able To Qualify For Welfare For Five Years

Prohibiting immigrants from collecting welfare for the first few years here is not a new idea, but it is an excellent idea, and not just because Democrats will hate it. And make no mistake. Democrats loathe it.

“Just this week, we announced a historic immigration bill to create a merit-based Green Card system that ends the abuse of our welfare system, stops chain migration, and protects our workers and our economy,” Trump stated. “As an example, you cannot get welfare for five years when you come into our country. You cannot just come in like in past weeks, years, and decades, you come in immediately and start picking up welfare. For five years, you have to say you will not be asking or using our welfare systems.”

Trump’s plan will send the left off the cliff again (and there was much rejoicing) because it strikes at the heart of any number of priorities. But the overall plan is little different from the programs already in place in “bastions of xenophobia” like Canada and Australia so let the wailing begin.

It also forces opponents to take a stand that can be easily spun as anti-American jobs, a theme that won Trump the presidency in the first place. Republican members of Congress who consider opposing this will need to tread very carefully.

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