Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect

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PHOENIX (AP) — Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants using government social services, people lined up before sunrise outside a state office in a largely Latino Phoenix neighborhood to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid.

No more.

“You had to arrive at 3 in the morning, and it might take you until the end of the day,” he said, pointing behind the office in the Maryvale neighborhood to show how long the lines got.

But no one lined up one recent weekday morning, and there were just a handful of people inside.

With new rules taking effect Monday that disqualify more people from green cards if they use government benefits, droves of immigrants, including citizens and legal residents, have dropped social services they or their children may be entitled to out of fear they will be kicked out of the U.S., said Velazquez and other advocates.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/crackdown-immigrants-public-benefits-takes-170137307.html

[Backseat Driver]

1. The brain of the Beast is permeating administration of

the social safety nets creating politicized fear, fear, fear. Heck, I'm an American by birth of nearly 7 decades and loathe how the Supreme Komander-by-Tweet manages to insert his baseless and brainless "discriminations" into the social fabric of our nation.

[shanti]

2. Sounds like

that last paragraph is the point of this exercise. Cruelty is his middle name.