The national media’s unwavering opposition to everything President Trump does on immigration usually means defending the indefensible. That’s exactly what they’re doing now after the administration said it would no longer issue green cards to immigrants who need welfare.
It’s only in the news media (and the Democratic Party but that’s redundant) that you could find earnest attempts at explaining why America needs more poor people.
CNN’s Bianna Golodryga on Tuesday said it should be taken for granted that any poor foreigner can “come and rely on our safety net.”
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson called the new rule “punitive and often sadistic.”
The mass immigration advocacy group known as the Wall Street Journal editorial board admitted that the rule “makes sense as a general principle” but then regurgitated the unrelated point that “immigrants are no more likely than native-born Americans to use public benefits.” This is not true, but even if it were true, why the hell would we look at the number of actual Americans on welfare and say, “This isn’t enough, let’s double it!”
No, we don’t need to import people who are going to be dependent on the taxpayer. We provide generously for the poor, but we have enough of them already. It’s not a crazy idea to say that we should focus on fixing homegrown poverty before importing 1 million more welfare dependents every year.
