Homeland Security's Taxpayer Funded Teat Sheet for Immigrants

If you want a confirmation of America’s decline, all you have to do is visit the Department of Homeland Security’s website.  There you’ll find an immigrant cheat sheet to the taxpayer teat.  Don’t look down, you might just find a foreigner dangling from your areola. 

“Welcome to USA.gov,” a website maintained by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), bills itself as the “primary gateway for new immigrants to find basic information on how to settle in the United States” — featuring a prominent section for new immigrants about how to access government benefits.

“Depending on your immigration status, length of time in the United States, and income, you may be eligible for some federal benefit programs ,” the Web page reads.

“Government assistance programs can be critically important to the well-being of some immigrants and their families. Frequently, however, there is a lack of information about how to access such benefits. Benefit programs can be complicated and you may be given misleading information about how they operate.”

A long time ago, Americans didn’t allow this to happen.  Immigrants had to prove their worth as citizens, if they couldn’t provide for themselves, they would’ve been deported.  The Progressives have changed that standard:

A "public charge" is someone who cannot provide for himself and thus relies on public assistance for a substantial part of his livelihood; it is someone who is a charge, or responsibility, of the public.6 Individuals who are deemed as likely to become charges of the public are excluded from entering the United States. If an immigrant becomes a public charge, he may be deported. With the rise of the welfare state in the United States since the Progressive Era, public assistance has increasingly come through the civil government; however, public aid historically had a heavy private sector, voluntary, charitable aspect.

The policy of excluding potential public charges seeks to ensure that individuals unable or unwilling to sustain themselves not burden society. It embodies the idea that an immigrant should be self-sufficient and contribute to the society granting him the privilege of becoming a new member. It is one of the conditions of the social contract. Immigration policy relates to the choosing among foreigners those whom a country will accept. Designating public charges as excludable rests within the rights of a sovereign nation to decide on those to whom to grant admission or the right to remain.

Immigrants once thought American streets were paved with golden opportunity; now they see food stamps and “free health care.” 

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/18/homeland-security-promotes-welfare-to-new-immigrants-in-government-welcome-materials/#ixzz2DOHGOsVC

http://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2012/07/immigrants-abuse-welfare-system-it-is.html