s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 1 The Trump administration’s new plan to punish legal immigrants
By Editorial Board
THE TRUMP administration’s crusade against illegal immigration tends to
grab the headlines, but it obscures the equally concerted attack on the
legal variety — including authorized immigrants with valid documents, many
of them with U.S. citizen spouses and children, who lead settled, productive
lives in the United States.
Among the most radical examples of that campaign is a proposal, reported by
The Post, that would overhaul long-standing rules by reclassifying huge
numbers of legal immigrants who receive an array of tax and other benefits,
including for health and nutrition, as “charges.” They would be denied
green cards as legal permanent residents and potentially subject to
deportation, or barred from entering the country in the first place if
deemed “likely” to need such assistance.
The administration’s blueprint, a product of the Homeland Security
Department now awaiting preliminary approval from the Office of Management
and Budget, would have sweeping effects. It would cover not only benefits
granted to current legal immigrants but also to their U.S. citizen spouses
and children. For instance, if an American-born child receives Medicaid or
health insurance subsidies, that could be grounds to disqualify his parent
from receiving a green card.
The most recent version of the plan leaves fuzzy the possibility of
deporting legal immigrants whose offense would be to have received benefits.
The real target seems to be choking off the flow of future immigrants
deemed “likely” to receive benefits — by utterly arbitrary guesswork and
mushy criteria that would be applied by U.S. bureaucrats evaluating their
applications.
It’s hard to overstate the proposed rule revision’s draconian effects.
Under the existing system, federal officials are authorized to deny green
cards to immigrants who receive what are called “cash” welfare benefits —
mainly under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or elderly and
disabled people who receive cash assistance under the Supplemental Security
Income program. In the administration’s plan, working-class immigrants
would be penalized if they claimed practically any benefit for which they
qualified — even the earned-income tax credit, which is used by tens of
millions of American workers and whose effect is to promote employment.
The impact would be particularly devastating for individuals and families
with children, who might now use any one of several health and insurance
benefits — without which they are far more likely to land in a hospital
emergency room, at considerable cost to the public. The chilling effect of
the new rule might dissuade many such families, fearing the repercussions of
receiving such benefits, from seeking the care their children need. How is
that in America’s interest?
Immigrant families pay billions of dollars in taxes and over time have
accrued to the nation’s enormous benefit. Those benefits, in addition to
the country’s increasingly acute shortage of workers, are ignored by the
administration in its quest to reduce the foreign-born share of the
population. In fact, government figures show that legal immigrants are no
more likely than native-born Americans to claim public benefits. By
punishing immigrants for doing so, the administration would impoverish the
nation. | s****y
发帖数: 581 | | T*R
发帖数: 36302 | 3 也不一定。
美国大量接受中印移民是90年代开始的，这些人陆续到了退休年龄。
这些中印移民加起来也有一百万了吧。一百万每年退休金和医疗费用怎么也有几百亿了。
美帝快揭不开锅了，能每年省几百亿也不容易了。
哥为了自己那点退休金，还是决定要入籍了。现在搞不定哪天就要赶绿卡了，虽然归化
公民也不保险。
从非移到h1到绿卡，最后肯定是要搞黄皮公民。 | x****o
发帖数: 29677 | 4
了。
你公民后到佛罗里达投票民主党
【在 T*R 的大作中提到】
: 也不一定。
: 美国大量接受中印移民是90年代开始的，这些人陆续到了退休年龄。
: 这些中印移民加起来也有一百万了吧。一百万每年退休金和医疗费用怎么也有几百亿了。
: 美帝快揭不开锅了，能每年省几百亿也不容易了。
: 哥为了自己那点退休金，还是决定要入籍了。现在搞不定哪天就要赶绿卡了，虽然归化
: 公民也不保险。
: 从非移到h1到绿卡，最后肯定是要搞黄皮公民。
| g******t
发帖数: 18158 | 5 也要注意49年投奔国民党的风险
了。
【在 T*R 的大作中提到】
: 也不一定。
: 美国大量接受中印移民是90年代开始的，这些人陆续到了退休年龄。
: 这些中印移民加起来也有一百万了吧。一百万每年退休金和医疗费用怎么也有几百亿了。
: 美帝快揭不开锅了，能每年省几百亿也不容易了。
: 哥为了自己那点退休金，还是决定要入籍了。现在搞不定哪天就要赶绿卡了，虽然归化
: 公民也不保险。
: 从非移到h1到绿卡，最后肯定是要搞黄皮公民。
| s****y
发帖数: 581 | 6 绝大部分美国人老了以后是靠自己的401K好吗？SSN不够塞牙缝。
[在 THR (???) 的大作中提到：]
:也不一定。
:美国大量接受中印移民是90年代开始的，这些人陆续到了退休年龄。
:这些中印移民加起来也有一百万了吧。一百万每年退休金和医疗费用怎么也有几百亿
了。
:美帝快揭不开锅了，能每年省几百亿也不容易了。
:哥为了自己那点退休金，还是决定要入籍了。现在搞不定哪天就要赶绿卡了，虽然归
化公民也不保险。
:从非移到h1到绿卡，最后肯定是要搞黄皮公民。 | s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 7 多谢
【在 s****y 的大作中提到】
: 你的标题翻译精准到位，充分表达了作者的深意。
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