Commentary: A new welfare trap for immigrants
by Alex Nowrasteh, Los Angeles Times
Aug 20, 2018
3 minutes
The Trump administration will soon place new limits on legal immigration with a regulatory change that will penalize newcomers just because they could use public benefits in the U.S. The point, according to a spokesman for the president, is "to ensure that the government takes the responsibility of being good stewards of taxpayer funds."
In the long run, however, the proposed rule will amount to the opposite of good stewardship: It will cost the government, and taxpayers, much more
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