You didn't follow the news a couple years back when more people were coming from central america than mexico? http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-us-security-20171026-story.html |
OP here...this isn't true. I know for a fact because I have family who sponsored their parents who are elderly. They come here and obtain their green cards and are able to apply for public assistance. They are on medicaid, and live in assisted living, go to government sponsored adult daycares all at the taxpayers expense. This is also happening all over my Potomac neighborhood. The adult children sponsor their parents who had already transferred all their own savings to the adult kids so on paper they are poor. They can then apply for medicaid (sometimes with a wait) and go to adult daycare centers, get taxi allowances, etc. All those buses you see with Asian characters that say adult daycare are running around getting these folks. BTW, just because on paper it says the adult children are promising financial support for their parents when they applied, it is never enforced. This is the same for siblings only for siblings, it is a longer wait. My parents sponsored a sibling over and it was a 10 year wait. However, once the siblings are here, they can apply for green card and a few years later apply for public assistance (as long as they are elderly). I am totally against this and believe our taxes should be helping those that truly need help, not those hiding their own savings so they can benefit from taxpayers money. |
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Chinese are abusing the immigration system
Among other things, I showed that most of the seniors receiving aid actually had well-off sons and daughters, and were living with them. During that time, a typical scenario in Silicon Valley, for instance, was that of husband and wife both from Taiwan, both making good money as engineers, and living in an expensive house — and with the down payment for that house coming in part from SSI money from the old folk. The latter would also serve as babysitters for the grandkids, and when the grandkids got older, the seniors would move into government-subsidized senior housing. The seniors would enjoy yearly trips back home to Taiwan — people on welfare enjoying international vacations, while some American black people on welfare had never even seen the ocean. Again, all of this was legal (with one possibly questionable aspect), and indeed promoted by the federal government. talk to people that actually have to deal with immigrants, not the educated elite in Bethesda with jewish guilt. https://normsaysno.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/immigration-and-welfare-use/ |
Yes, this is happening, and it is patently unfair. Elderly foreigners are getting free medical care, paid for by American taxpayers, that middle-income American taxpayers cannot afford for themselves. The entire system is upside down. |
Similar situation in Australia: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/28/plan-to-restrict-pension-for-older-migrants-unprecedented-in-australia |
What goalposts? I'm not OP. I didn't say I only had 3 conditions. Different people have different opinions on what should be done. That's not moving the goalpost.
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Yes I left my IA job because of this very reason I had to see in the school. Parents were to poor to pay lunch for their children but they can buy nice clothes, gaming system and new iPhone . |
I know few families who are sucking tax payers $$$ by putting elderly parents on walfare . |
I'm an immigrant too and I agree what you are saying . I have seen it plenty of free-loaders. American immigration system is broken and whatever the laws we have it is not enforced ,most of them. Most Americans are sleeping and don't care to know. |
yes but PP read an article in vox so she is an expert on immigration |
i am an immigrant as well and never got anything for free nor brought any family. however my nanny who was also an immigrant brought a bunch of relatives (adult children who brought spouses etc) and I was amazed at all the free godina she was somehow getting. that women knew everything and where to get it. she was very savvy while I, a phd, had no idea of the possibilities. you really need ground-level knowledge to understand how immigration actually works. |
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1. Pay a fine for breaking the law.
2. Admit guilt., and apologize. 3. submit to background check. 4. take a class in civics. 5. pay another fine for paperwork. 6. say please! |
Immigrants cannot bring married adult children. Only citizens can and the wait is long, so forgive me if I doubt the veracity of this claim. -someone with extensive ground-level knowledge of immigration. |
No, it’s because I actually worked on immigration policy. Straw man. Your “anecdotes” are likely not accurate, but even if they are, are far from a reflection of reality of family sponsorship. It takes years, decades to bring a relative here, and tens of thousands of dollars. The process for sponsorship is as exactly as I described it. Even the word “chain” implies there’s link after link, when the reality is that most families aren’t ever able to sponsor a relative, let alone two. But since we’re evidently going to based this debate on anecdotes via an anonymous bulletin board, here’s one: when I was a kid, my mother attempted to sponsor her sister, and finally gave up hope on the idea by the time I was in college. |
| If we're going to be intellectually honest about this debate, we should remember that "they should go back to their home country" or "I want them gone" or "get them out" = Deportation Force with Elian Gonzalez style raids and apprehensions and transportation costs back to wherever. We should factor in the full cost of a Deportation Force against the public resources being used by DACA kids. Is it worth the cost? |