Trump proposal would penalize immigrants who use tax credits and other benefits

[maxrandb]

Source: Washington Post

Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration, which is seeking to reduce the number of foreigners living in the United States.

According to a draft of the proposal obtained by The Washington Post, immigration caseworkers would be required to consider a much broader range of factors when determining whether immigrants or their U.S.-citizen children are using public benefits or may be likely to do so.

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The proposed rule appears to have generated consternation among some USCIS employees. At a recent townhall-style staff meeting, agency Director L. Francis Cissna was challenged by one employee, according to a recording of the encounter shared with The Post.

“On a personal level, I think I can say with confidence that my destitute and illiterate great-grandparents would not have been welcomed in this country under something like the very ill-conceived public charge rule that is currently in the process of development,” the staffer said, telling Cissna such changes were hurting employee morale.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-proposal-would-penalize-immigrants-who-use-tax-credits-and-other-benefits/2018/03/28/4c6392e0-2924-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html?utm_term=.43e7ada9293f

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What sick twisted fucks have we enabled to take over our fucking country???

[George II]

1. How many trump employees would be affected by this?

[riversedge]

8. Immigration caseworkers (I know one) are generally career Federal employees, Many are

social workers or have degrees in Health care management. Many have Masters degrees. They care for the people they
manage the paperwork for. Many see the immigrants and their families for years -they come in for various reasons. Case workers get attached to these families--and they generally are families. They see new babies come into the families, kids getting enrolled in school, They hear of the school plays, etc. They hear of health problems. etc etc.

[Bengus81]

2. ANYTHING to raise another buck for his Corporate tax cut---ANYTHING

FUCK YOU TRUMP you POS..................

[maxrandb]

3. The whole point of the Earned Income Tax Credit

is that you have to have a JOB and have EARNED income. All it does is "maybe" pull you to just below the poverty line.

Was listening to some Greek American at a church function railing about "immigrants busting our national budget". I pointed out that if we had Donnie Short Fingers and Confederate Jeff in charge 100 years ago, he wouldn't fucking be here to bitch about immigrants

You know you've hit a nerve when you get a Greek to shut the fuck up!

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[yurbud]

5. I approve of the Earned Income Credit, but it subsidizes businesses that

don't pay their workers a living wage.

It is the single strongest argument for raising the minimum wage, but the argument to explain it wouldn't fit on a bumper sticker, so no Republican can understand it.

[alwaysinasnit]

6. I don't believe it is constitutional

Benefits to U.S. citizen children cannot be credited to the undocumented parent (need to have a valid social security number, I believe). I actually believe this may be a round-about way to justify denial of, what little benefits from the safety net remain, any assistance to everyone just because some "illegals are getting government benefits."

Earned income credit is not available to undocumented parents of a US citizen child, even if only one of the parents is undocumented.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I would think that part or all of it would not pass mustard.

If an immigrant is paying taxes they should be able to use most if not all of the exemptions and deductions available to everyone else.

[riversedge]

9. This is to instill fear-even in DACA folks.....One slip and they will be denied full legal residency

This is meanness, just plain meanness by trump et all.


.....Current rules penalize immigrants who receive cash welfare payments, considering them a “public charge.” But the proposed changes from the Department of Homeland Security would widen the government’s definition of benefits to include the widely used Earned Income Tax Credit as well as health insurance subsidies and other “non-cash public benefits.”

The changes would apply to those seeking immigration visas, or legal permanent residency, such as a foreigner with an expiring work visa. While it would make little difference to those living illegally in the shadows, it could affect immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — whose termination has been blocked by federal courts — if they attempt to file for full legal residency.........

[maxrandb]

10. Bingo!!

It's to ensure the folks that clean Donnie Shit for Brains hotel rooms and manicure his fucking golf courses LIVE IN FUCKING FEAR

Funny thing is that the "deplorables" are high-fiving each other and chortling at the pain and fear their sugar daddy is instilling in immigrants, but they don't realize that it's just a small jaunt across the street from denying the EITC to "Legal" Immigrants-to denying it to deplorables.

Fucking suckers.