President Donald J. Trump took aim at a “magnet” for illegal aliens when he signed an executive order cutting off taxpayer-funded benefits to the foreigners who swarmed into the country during the Biden administration,
The administration said that the order’s goal is to ensure that “taxpayer resources are used to protect the interests of American citizens, not illegal aliens.”
“My Administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans,” read the executive order which was signed late Wednesday night.
BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump just signed an executive order to TERMINATE all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens and END the subsidization of open borders.
Here is the text of the order:
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Trump cited the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) which denies benefits to most illegal aliens and that “over the last four years, the prior administration repeatedly undercut” the law.
“Title IV of the PRWORA states that it is a national policy that ‘aliens within the Nation’s borders not depend on public resources to meet their needs,’ and that ‘[i]t is a compelling government interest to remove the incentive for illegal immigration provided by the availability of public benefits.’ But in the decades since the passage of the PRWORA, numerous administrations have acted to undermine the principles and limitations directed by Congress through that law. Over the last 4 years, in particular, the prior administration repeatedly undercut the goals of that law, resulting in the improper expenditure of significant taxpayer resources,” the order reads.
The order directs federal agencies to “identify all federally funded programs administered by the agency that currently permit illegal aliens to obtain any cash or non-cash public benefit,” to “prevent taxpayer resources from acting as a magnet and fueling illegal immigration to the United States, and to ensure, to the maximum extent permitted by law, that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens.”
“President Trump is committed to safeguarding Federal public benefits for American citizens who are truly in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans,” the White House said in a fact sheet on the executive order.
“The Biden administration gave billions in taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups that facilitated mass illegal migration and provided legal services to challenge deportation orders,” the fact sheet noted.
The order is the latest that is focused on the illegal immigration that exploded during the Biden administration when the senile Democrat leader and his useless “border czar” Kamala Harris presided over an invasion of mostly indigent foreigners who flocked into the U.S. to leech off of productive taxpayers with many of them being violent criminals, including murderers and rapists.
The White House fact sheet lists the actions that Trump has taken since January 20 when he took office to secure the border and put Americans first including declaring a national emergency at the southern border, deploying the military to the border, restarting construction of the border wall, ending catch-and-release policies and sending the “most dangerous illegal criminal aliens” to Guantanamo Bay.
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