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The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs, including Obamacare, four sources with knowledge of the plan told NBC News.
The move, which would not need congressional approval, is part of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller's plan to limit the number of migrants who obtain legal status in the U.S. each year.
[...] Though its effects could be far-reaching, the proposal to limit citizenship to immigrants who have not used public assistance does not appear to need congressional approval. As the Clinton administration did in 1999, the Trump administration would be redefining the term "public charge," which first emerged in immigration law in the 1800s in order to shield the U.S. from burdening too many immigrants who could not contribute to society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @08:06PM
It's one thing going to a U-pick to pick berries, corn, etc. It is quite another to do it for 8+ hrs/day, 8 days a week, as fast as you can, because the pay is by the pound, no real minimum wage in the fields.
the high school kids get some "charity" work detasseling corn, family & friends, and sometimes even paid a little extra. But if they were older? Or brown? Farmer John is paying as little as possible for it. He probably already does anyways for the "back 40".
While there are some "good" people willing to work (and get paid respectfully) to do things like pump septic tanks, mow lawns, etc., and customers who will pay for them, there are way more people who will only pay as little as they can to get such work done and will only pay out in cash, and have no qualms at all about it. And theres a decent pool of people willing to do said work for cash, too. Maybe they're "illegals". Maybe ex-cons. whatever.
But squeezing that lanor pool is eventually going to make some of your voter base upset. Dogma/ideology be damned, you're fking with their money now.