Republican House Bill Would Criminalize Poverty For Dreamers

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Republican House Bill Would Criminalize Poverty For Dreamers
by Colin Kalmbacher | 1:03 pm, January 20th, 2018

House Republicans have introduced a bill that would criminalize Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program recipients (“Dreamers”) who fall below certain income metrics.

In effect, and explicitly, this equates to a criminalization of poverty–for Dreamers alone–because the income metrics used in the bill are based off of federal poverty levels.

https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/republican-house-bill-would-criminalize-poverty-for-dreamers/

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1. Thank you for posting this once again.

Spotted this part of the DACA Dreamers Bill. So if you have a Green Card and can't earn a living wage,you go to Debtors Prison. And the GOP would determine the base line? And you must make 135% of that base line.

Oh by the way,most White Folks in those Red States would be the next ones because they are sucking up all those Government Benefits.


Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell at work.

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2. This needs more attention

Outright class warfare. Outright hate.


“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

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4. First they came for the dreamers...

It will be the rest of us non-millionaires next.

See you in debtors prison soon!

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3. How does this differ from the requirements for the usual affidavit of support

that green-card applicants are required to submit?

https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/affidavit-support

These particular requirements were around in the '80s and '90s, and every time since then.

Is the proposal concerning the Dreamers the same or different?

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5. No as there are criminal penalties.