I seem to remember some politicians promising us that newly legalized immigrants would not be able to receive welfare benefits. I must have been mistaken, seeing that a Senate panel just approved welfare payments for those they want to legalize. But on the bright side, if any of the formerly illegal aliens is convicted of drunk driving three times they can be deported. (Not that this administration would do so. They regularly ignore laws, or parts of laws, that don?t jibe with their agenda.)
The SenateJudiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began to emerge.
In one major change, the committee voted 17-1 to make a third drunken-driving conviction a deportable offense for the newly legalized immigrants if at least one of those offenses occurs after they are approved for legal status?.
Overall, the committee continued to maintain the delicate balance struck by the ?Gang of Eight? senators who negotiated the 867-page bill: Quick legal status for illegal immigrants, but delaying citizenship rights until after the administration spends more money on border security, puts in place a new electronic verification system to check workers? status, and enacts an entry-exit system to check visas at airports and seaports.
In previous days? action, two Republican members of the Gang of Eight ? Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona ? joined with Democrats to block a series of GOP amendments to stiffen the bill?s security.
But on Monday, the two Republicans sided with their party colleagues on key questions on giving illegal immigrants public benefits. (Read More)
I don?t know what makes Senator Rubio and his Republican colleagues on the Gang of 8 believe they can work with the Democrats on this or anything.
Source: http://lonelyconservative.com/2013/05/senate-panel-approved-welfare-for-newly-legal-immigrants/
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