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Illegal Immigrants Ditch Food Stamps "So Trump Won't Deport Them" |
2017-03-18 |
[WAPO] Luisa Fortin sometimes sits up at night, wondering what her clients are eating. She is the SNAP Outreach Coordinator for the Chattanooga Food Bank -- but lately she has done less outreaching. Her families, working immigrants in northwest Georgia, are spooked by the political climate, Fortin said. Increasingly, she’s being asked to explain how food stamps may impact immigration status, if not to outright cancel family food benefits. Since mid-January, five of Fortin’s families have withdrawn from the SNAP program. One, the single mother of three citizen daughters, had fled to Georgia to escape an abusive husband. Another, two green-card holders with four young children, were thinking of taking on third jobs to compensate for the lost benefits. These families represent a small fraction of Fortin's caseload -- she estimates she has signed 200 immigrant families up for SNAP over the past six months -- but based on the calls she gets from other clients, she fears more cancellations are imminent. "I get calls from concerned parents all the time: ’should I take my kids out of the program?’" Fortin said. "They’re risking hunger out of fear ... and my heart just breaks for them." |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#15 Don't Feed the Bears |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-03-18 18:17 |
#14 Ditching food stamps and they bail out? Just watch the exodus if the government starts collecting taxes from them and their employers. Couple that with employer verification of work status and those Americans living near the border will be endangered from getting trampled as the illegals head out. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-18 17:55 |
#13 So long as they're not eating our tax dollars. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-03-18 11:26 |
#12 a good % of the OTM, Magpie |
Posted by: Frank G 2017-03-18 10:56 |
#11 How many of these people have lapsed visas? Arrived legally and over stayed, not cross the border illegally? |
Posted by: magpie 2017-03-18 10:46 |
#10 That swamp seems to be self draining. Soon migration will be positive for the country and legal. |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-03-18 10:32 |
#9 One, the single the phrasing is no coincidence |
Posted by: Frank G 2017-03-18 10:31 |
#8 Wow... they get off the government teat and deport themselves. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2017-03-18 10:14 |
#7 BTW -- if illegals are an economic powerhouse, how come they're on the dole? Posted by: Rob Crawford A logical question to which there can only be illogical answers. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-18 08:44 |
#6 BTW -- if illegals are an economic powerhouse They are, for their home countries. |
Posted by: Gomez Wholuth7254 2017-03-18 08:43 |
#5 So long as they're not eating our tax dollars. BTW -- if illegals are an economic powerhouse, how come they're on the dole? |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2017-03-18 08:34 |
#4 Luisa Fortin sometimes sits up at night, wondering what her clients are eating. Check with Canada. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-03-18 07:53 |
#3 A very nice piece of psychological warfare. Posted by g(r)omgoru Yes indeed. Trump's actions are 'starving the children!' Something must be done. Surely an Obama appointed federal judge will step forward soon. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-18 07:42 |
#2 A very nice piece of psychological warfare. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-18 07:38 |
#1 Trump-INS dividends. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-18 07:33 |