Democrats Demand Trump Continue Welfare-Dependent Immigration to U.S.

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Democrats Demand Trump Continue Welfare-Dependent Immigration to U.S.

John Binder 22 Dec 2025

House and Senate Democrats are demanding that President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) rescind a new regulation that will prevent welfare-dependent foreign nationals from resettling in the U.S.

USCIS Director Joe Edlow has issued a final rule that will reinstate Trump’s “public charge” rule from his first term, which enforced Clinton-era laws from 1996 that delegated all financial responsibility to a family member or business sponsor of a foreign national seeking a green card when they had previously used welfare programs.

In February 2021, then-President Joe Biden ended Trump’s public charge rule, revamping welfare-dependent immigration.

House and Senate Democrats are now writing to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Edlow, urging them to halt the public charge rule, claiming it will have a “chilling effect” on migrant communities.

“The chilling effects triggered by expansions of public charge interpretation are well-documented and severe,” the Democrats wrote in the letter:

    Federal and academic studies following welfare reform found that confusion and fear led to significant declines in Medicaid participation among otherwise eligible immigrant families and their U.S.-citizen children, with researchers warning that rising uninsurance among these children would worsen health outcomes and increase uncompensated care burdens on safety-net providers.

    Under the 2019 Trump public charge rule, similar harm reemerged rapidly. Even though many programs were not included in the rule, nearly half (46%) of immigrants in low-income families reported that they or a family member avoided applying for or disenrolled from public benefits due to immigration concerns.

    That chilling effect extended far beyond the rule’s legal scope, including participation in Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, Head Start, and school meal programs. The consequences were borne disproportionately by U.S. citizen children, who lost access to preventive medical care, early childhood education, and essential nutrition — evidence that fear-driven policy harms American families and public health systems.

Among the Democrats who signed the letter are Sens. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Edward Markey (D-MA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Coons (D-DE), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR).

Decades of research have shown that legal immigrant households receive more welfare than households headed by American citizens.

The latest analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies found that 54 percent of legal immigrant-headed households used at least one form of welfare. Likewise, almost 60 percent of noncitizen-headed households use at least one form of welfare.


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/12/22/democrats-demand-trump-continue-welfare-dependent-immigration-to-u-s/

[Free Vulcan]

Now where they gonna get votes when all the illegals are gone?

[DefiantMassRINO]

At one time, wasn't it a point in Immigration polcy and law that incoming legal immigrants had to be self-sufficient?

The U.N. crowd uses 'refugee' and 'assylum' as a means to get certain developed countries to take in persons who have no interest integrating as productive members of their new societies.

In the late 1980's/early 1990's, I was standing on a suburban subway platform when I overheard two older Asian women (presumably Chinese) who only spoke one word of English - "S.S.I."

Before the 1960s, new immigrants to America were expected to be self-sufficient or be taken care of by family, not Government welfare.

Importing the 3rd World into the 1st World will only lower the 1st World's standard of living and quality of life.  The 3rd World should be working to improve its standard of living rather than lowering our standard of living.

Limousine liberals with rich white guilt feel morally obligated to help refugees and assylum seekers with other people's money and move them into other people's towns and school districts.

I'd like to see a Conservative NGO send newly arrived immigrant children to the same schools the elite send their children to and pay to move them into neighborhoods where the elite live.  The elites wouldn't want anyone to think they were xeno-phobic racists, now, would they?

The Deplorables need to breach the wall of wealth and privilege which insulates elites from the consequences of their own policies.