{"id":17834,"date":"2013-05-02T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17834"},"modified":"2013-05-02T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T17:16:08","slug":"hidden-costs-of-gang%e2%80%99s-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17834\/hidden-costs-of-gang%e2%80%99s-immigration-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Costs of Gang\u2019s Immigration Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/347050\/coming-welfare-wave\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> explains the reality behind the Gang of Eight claim that illegal immigrants won\u2019t be eligible for public benefits until 13 years after being legalized:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A notable loophole in the Gang\u2019s legislation explicitly prohibits DHS from considering the likelihood that an applicant for provisional legal status will become a \u201cpublic charge\u201d \u2014 defined as any individual who is \u201cprimarily dependent on the government for subsistence, as demonstrated by either the receipt of public cash assistance for income maintenance, or institutionalization for long-term care at government expense.\u201d Critics fear that if a significant number of immigrants meeting that definition are given legal status, state and local government could face an immediate financial burden, and one that could worsen over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, as I explain in <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/58-immigration\/1829-ignored-by-gangs-immigration-bill-conservatives-should-return-the-favor\" target=\"_blank\">my column this week<\/a>, the Gang\u2019s prohibition against using federal law\u2019s \u201cpublic charge\u201d criteria to decide whether illegal immigrants should be legalized undermines claims from Gang members and their allies that mass legalization won\u2019t lead to big government spending increases.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2013\/04\/23\/how-heritage-is-studying-the-costs-of-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Rector<\/a> is still studying the impact of the Gang\u2019s legalization effort on government spending, and my hunch is that he, unlike the Gang, will include the probable increases incurred by state and local governments if the public charge prohibition becomes law.<\/p>\n<p>If so, the American people will get a clearer picture of the actual costs of legalization. Only then can we have an honest debate about what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Stiles explains the reality behind the Gang of Eight claim that illegal immigrants won\u2019t be eligible for public benefits until 13 years after being legalized: &#8220;A notable loophole in the Gang\u2019s legislation explicitly prohibits DHS from considering the likelihood that an applicant for provisional legal status will become a \u201cpublic charge\u201d \u2014 defined as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4123,70,1450,4100,1102,1553,2366,981,4124,3082,61,3498,1286],"class_list":["post-17834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-andrew-stiles","tag-budget","tag-federal","tag-gang-of-eight","tag-heritage-foundation","tag-illegal","tag-immigrant","tag-immigration","tag-legalization","tag-local","tag-spending","tag-state","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17838,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions\/17838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}