Trump Ends Usage of Taxpayer Money to ‘Incentivize or Support Illegal Immigration’
“My Administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order that puts an end to using our tax money to benefit illegal aliens instead of Americans.
“My Administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans,” Trump wrote in the order.
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) prevents illegal aliens from welfare programs.
However, if the government grants them parole, the illegal aliens become “qualified aliens.” The classification makes them “eligible for various welfare programs on a sliding scale, with full eligibility granted within five years.”
(i) identify all federally funded programs administered by the agency that currently permit illegal aliens to obtain any cash or non-cash public benefit, and, consistent with applicable law, take all appropriate actions to align such programs with the purposes of this order and the requirements of applicable Federal law, including the PRWORA;
(ii) ensure, consistent with applicable law, that Federal payments to States and localities do not, by design or effect, facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration, or abet so-called “sanctuary” policies that seek to shield illegal aliens from deportation; and
(iii) enhance eligibility verification systems, to the maximum extent possible, to ensure that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien who entered the United States illegally or is otherwise unlawfully present in the United States.
The Director of the Office of Management and Budget and DOGE have 30 days to:
(i) identify all other sources of Federal funding for illegal aliens; and
(ii) recommend additional agency actions to align Federal spending with the purposes
The fact sheet about the executive order claimed hundreds of billions of dollars have gone towards illegal aliens:
- According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), providing welfare to one million illegal aliens could cost American taxpayers an additional $3 billion annually.
- The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee estimated that taxpayers could pay as much as $451 billion to care for illegal aliens and gotaways that have entered the United States unlawfully since January 2021.
- The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) calculated that American taxpayers spend at least $182 billion annually to cover the costs incurred by the presence of 20 million illegal aliens and their children, which includes $66.5 billion in Federal expenses plus an additional $115.6 billion in state and local expenses.
- The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the Biden Administration’s open borders agenda, which sought to provide Medicaid-funded emergency services to illegal aliens, has cost Federal and state taxpayers more than $16.2 billion.
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Bad news for church-group named NGOs that make their money that way.
Quite an industry for them, huh? Catholic services, Lutheran services, etc., all making hundreds of millions a year.
Reminds me of the saying about the New England missionaries who went to Hawaii in the 1800s and then were enticed to own sugar plantations: “they went to do good and stayed to do well.”
They’re already suing to try to get it back–the Catholic bishops and at least one Lutheran Social Services group filed–they truly believe they’re entitled to this money
Who knows how much is being skimmed for “overhead”? How many 6 figure salaries are being paid to church leaders? How many of those prepaid debit cards end up in the hands of the NGO employees?
“$182 billion annually to cover the costs incurred by the presence of 20 million illegal aliens and their children”
That’s about the same as we wasted in overseas: nearly $183 billion for Ukraine alone.
Taken together we could’ve used the money to help our veterans instead of bombarding us with hundreds of the ads begging us to give to support citizens while the government gives our tax money to support others.
Ending the gravy train is a good start. But we need prison time for any and all who aided and abetted this invasion. That or a rope.
Dims have been saying we’re at war. Why don’t we take them up on it?
How refreshing… some fundamental sanity returns. Why ON EARTH would our government be funding something that is ILLEGAL?
Cutting the money by EO is good, but this needs to be codified into law, and anyone who does this in the future needs to have their pension revoked and to to prison. Full stop.
The same people who went on TV whining that “our immigration system is broken” are the people flying planes to South America to load them with illegals and fly them back.
Guillotines are no longer avoidable.
Remove ALL incentives to break into America, and watch the problem disappear.
Beat me to it. My sentiments exactly!
I have to agree with Suburban Farm Guy. The problem historically has been that willfully bad players have suffered no consequences for their participation. This has to change.
To put into law, Trump and company will need total control of US House and Senate. That means we start now identifying any state that has a possible flip (and loss) and get organized. Waiting for NRCC and NRSC to arrive 4-6 months before the election and not bothering to talk to people who actually made changes (some followed, others were ignored), to impose their system is just stupid. And don’t waste time on states who ignore the people who actually started to change and made a difference.
Duh ….
“Usage of Taxpayer Money to ‘Incentivize or Support Illegal Immigration’”
A simple truth that not one MSM outlet has had the honesty to utter over the past 12 years.
The audacity of this deliberate, routine lawbreaking nauseates me.
Let the whining begin. ‘Oh, but the children’. One way to counteract and expose the whining for the crocodile tears that they are is to pass legislation not just allowing but requiring sponsors for the various high profile groups.
If some whiny d/prog leftist really wants to allow these ‘asylum seekers’ or DACA or other group granted deferred deportation status then provide them the means to do so. However they gotta put them into THEIR home to house, feed, clothe and financially support on THEIR dime by contracting as the Sponsor. No second homes or paying for an apartment elsewhere. Nope they can put their own $ and the safety of their own families at risk. I suspect not many will materially express their ‘deeply held’ convictions when they must demonstrate personal courage and financial responsibility to do so.
Finally