Thread: Inhumane Anti-Immigrant Plan

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Inhumane Anti-Immigrant Plan
October 1, 2007
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Furl Google Newsvine Reddit Spurl Yahoo Print Single page view Reprints Reader feedback Text size: Connecticut Social Services Commissioner Michael Starkowski apparently didn't get the memo - the one advising him that it is not right to put poor people at risk of freezing to death.

Had Mr. Starkowski done so, perhaps he would have reconsidered his proposal to require applicants for heating assistance to produce Social Security numbers as a condition of receiving aid. Mr. Starkowski wanted to weed out illegal immigrants, who are barred by federal law from receiving federally subsidized benefits from programs such as the energy assistance grants.

U.S. statutes, it happens, also prohibit the federal government from requiring that applicants for aid show proof of citizenship, which makes the immigrant rule on benefits extremely difficult to enforce.



Mr. Starkowski attached the Social Security provision to his plan for allocating the $40.9 million in heating assistance that Connecticut receives from the federal government - a plan that must be approved by legislative committees before it can be implemented. We urge state lawmakers to reject this plan.

Congress has passed plenty of laws for regulating the flow of immigration. Failure by the federal government to enforce those laws is partially responsible for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the country now.

Federal officials should do their job rather than attempt to get at immigrants through a back door by directing states to deny life-sustaining assistance. State agencies, meanwhile, should avoid participating in such machinations.
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THEY REALLY DONT NEED HEAT SINCE THEY WILL SOON BE RETURNING TO MEXICO. NICE AND WARM DOWN THERE.

What I want to know is why there is a Federal heating assistance program in the first place? Cannot the states handle it?

Since when is it prohibited to ask those applying to prove citizenship?

Ask anyone who has ever tried to receive any type of assistance without birth certificates for each person in the household what happens!!!

Now, if that isn't requiring proof of citizenship, then I don't know what is.

Originally Posted by azwreath

Since when is it prohibited to ask those applying to prove citizenship?

Ask anyone who has ever tried to receive any type of assistance without birth certificates for each person in the household what happens!!!

Now, if that isn't requiring proof of citizenship, then I don't know what is.

Precisely. Prior to the illegal alien invasion, and the addiction to cheap labor by the corporate elite, it was perfectly acceptable to require proof of citizenship. Suddenly, requiring information is discriminatory. Soon, it will even be discriminatory to require proof of citizenship for voting.

They are methodically altering verification requirements in an attempt to eliminate any semblance of distinction between "legal" and "illegal" citizenry.