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Ferd Berfle
Aug 22, 2012, 9:52:06 AM8/22/12
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Clinton, Napolitano mum on open-door immigrant welfare policy
Published: 12:28 AM 08/22/2012
By Caroline May
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano are mum on why the legal requirements that immigrants and visa
applicants not be reliant on government assistance have been watered down,
according to some lawmakers.
The deadline for Clinton and Napolitano to respond to a letter regarding
admission of immigrants on or likely to be on assistance programs from
senior Republicans on the Budget, Judiciary, Finance, and Agriculture
Committees came and passed Monday.
On Tuesday Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking member on the
Senate Budget Committee, blasted the pair for their failure to comply.
"It is unacceptable that Secretary Napolitano and Secretary Clinton have not
seen fit to respond our oversight letter," Sessions said in a statement. "It
is a sound principle of immigration law that those who come to our country
should be able to take care of themselves financially, yet this legal
requirement has effectively been waived. Under their agencies' guidelines,
an able-bodied, working-age immigrant could receive the bulk of his or her
income in the form of federal assistance and still not be deemed
welfare-reliant."
The concerns that Sessions, Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck
Grassley, Finance Committee ranking member Orrin Hatch, and Agriculture
Committee ranking member Pat Roberts have is the government's interpretation
of federal regulations prohibiting legal admittance of immigrants "likely to
become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence."
As the senators detailed in their letter sent on Aug. 6, immigrants can
avail themselves of dozens of welfare programs at the time of their
application and after without the government deeming them a dependency risk,
or so-called "public charge."
Food stamps benefits, housing benefits, energy assistance, child care
services and many other programs are all inadmissible when determining an
immigrant's risk of public dependency, according to the Department of
Homeland Security's website...........
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/22/clinton-napolitano-mum-on-open-door-immigrant-welfare-policy/
Published: 12:28 AM 08/22/2012
By Caroline May
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano are mum on why the legal requirements that immigrants and visa
applicants not be reliant on government assistance have been watered down,
according to some lawmakers.
The deadline for Clinton and Napolitano to respond to a letter regarding
admission of immigrants on or likely to be on assistance programs from
senior Republicans on the Budget, Judiciary, Finance, and Agriculture
Committees came and passed Monday.
On Tuesday Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking member on the
Senate Budget Committee, blasted the pair for their failure to comply.
"It is unacceptable that Secretary Napolitano and Secretary Clinton have not
seen fit to respond our oversight letter," Sessions said in a statement. "It
is a sound principle of immigration law that those who come to our country
should be able to take care of themselves financially, yet this legal
requirement has effectively been waived. Under their agencies' guidelines,
an able-bodied, working-age immigrant could receive the bulk of his or her
income in the form of federal assistance and still not be deemed
welfare-reliant."
The concerns that Sessions, Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck
Grassley, Finance Committee ranking member Orrin Hatch, and Agriculture
Committee ranking member Pat Roberts have is the government's interpretation
of federal regulations prohibiting legal admittance of immigrants "likely to
become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence."
As the senators detailed in their letter sent on Aug. 6, immigrants can
avail themselves of dozens of welfare programs at the time of their
application and after without the government deeming them a dependency risk,
or so-called "public charge."
Food stamps benefits, housing benefits, energy assistance, child care
services and many other programs are all inadmissible when determining an
immigrant's risk of public dependency, according to the Department of
Homeland Security's website...........
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/22/clinton-napolitano-mum-on-open-door-immigrant-welfare-policy/
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