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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: 2) by Reziac on Friday August 17 2018, @10:29PM
Iraq is a very different situation, tho, even ignoring the complication of Islam and that it is based in concepts of a warrior class superior to everyone else, and the fundamental inferiority of all kaffir (factors Mexico lacks). Further, Iraq isn't smack up against our southern border and entangled in local trade agreements, both being where we're forced to pay attention to it. (We could mostly ignore Iraq and be none the worse.)
Mexico is really a nation of native Indians subjugated by a mostly-purebred-Spaniard ruling class, and it's so to this day. And it hasn't exactly risen up and thrown off that ruling class. Boss Man is in charge and who that is doesn't seem to concern villagers much. Mexican nationalism is mostly a myth promulgated by La Raza socialists. (I'd guess were it determined by a vote, most Mexicans would vote for their state to join the U.S., with all the benefits thereto.)
I expect the only official resistance would come from that ruling class. And at this point that's rather fragmented. Probably more unofficially from the drug cartels, which are hardly a majority of the population, nor are they a lawful government, but they do presently have most of the guns.
Meanwhile, what happens when Mexico tips wholly into being a failed state? Cuz if the cartels continue to run things as they please, that's where it's headed. I've heard reports that the central gov't has lost all control over most of the country. If resistance was in the cards, Mexicans would already be resisting this. But nope, they do nothing to preserve their own country. Fear rules, and peasants keep their heads down.
And at some point that's going to become our concern, if only because it's spilling over into our territory, the U.S. drug trade being the cash cow that keeps those Mexican cartels going.
I don't want the burden of administering Mexico, either benevolently or as an overlord; we don't need Puerto Rico's giant cousin sucking at the federal tit, and there's some benefit in having a very large buffer state between us and the rest of Latin America. But I think at some point we'll be forced into taking it on, and that would be better done on our terms than on terms thrust upon us.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.