Joe Biden Signs Order Revamping Welfare-Dependent Immigration
2 Feb 2021
President Joe Biden signed an executive order that seeks to revamp welfare-dependent legal immigration to the United States by eliminating certain regulations and demanding a review of current enforcement practices.
On Tuesday, Biden signed an order that revokes a crackdown on welfare-dependent legal immigration that sought to protect American taxpayers from being forced to foot the bill for federal benefits provided to foreign nationals seeking green cards.
In May 2019, President Trump signed an order to enforce Clinton-era laws from 1996 that delegated all financial responsibility to a family member or business sponsor of a foreign national seeking a green card when they had previously used welfare programs. The order cut loose taxpayers from having to pay the cost.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/
The following statement was issued by Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in response to yet another flurry of executive actions, triggering a review of how to increase legal and illegal immigration in the middle of a crisis with no end in sight.
Increasing Welfare State Through Potential Elimination of Public Charge: Protecting the interests of the American people by barring the admission of immigrants who are likely to become public charges those who are likely to become dependent on government welfare has been a cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy since 1882. As part of his America Last immigration agenda, President Biden is gearing up to reverse existing policies that protect American taxpay
Vox that immigrants aren t supposed to be a public charge.
Not entirely their fault it s only a short period of time since most of them were in high school, and the Public Charge requirement for legal immigration hasn t been enforced for some time.
In 2001, we published
Contrary to the “Open Borders” myth, Americans have always tried to prevent the immigration of anyone likely to become a “public charge” – dependent on public charity. Massachusetts enacted the earliest public charge laws in 1645. But the Immigration and Naturalization Service reports that just 12 immigrants were deported on public charge grounds during the 1981-90 decade. Since then, the INS has stopped listing public charge as a separate category of reasons for deportation.
ANALYSIS: The Judicial Takeover of Immigration Law Saga Continues
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On Tuesday Judge Tipton in the Southern District of Texas issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Biden Administration s 100 day deportation freeze. One of the reasons provided in justification of this TRO was that Biden s administration acted in an arbitrary and capricious fashion. Judge Tipton wrote: DHS, however, never explains how the pause in removals helps accomplish these goals. It remains unknown why a 100-day pause is needed given the allegedly unique circumstances to which the January 20 Memorandum alludes. Indeed, despite such unique circumstances, DHS did not state or explain why 100 days specifically is needed to accomplish these goals. The silence of the January 20 Memorandum on these questions indicates that the terms provided for in the Memorandum were not a result of reasoned decision-making. Allentown Mack Sales, 522 U.S. at 374, 118 S.Ct. at 826.