Thread: Illegal Aliens Can Get DTV Coupons

Aliens Can Get DTV Coupons
Bush Administration Officials Says Aliens Can Participate in $1.5 billion Subsidy Program
By Ted Hearn -- Multichannel News, 10/2/2007 3:15:00 PM
Washington – A Bush Administration official said Tuesday he would make no effort to exclude illegal aliens from receiving benefits under a $1.5 billion subsidy program designed to keep analog TV sets running after the transition to all-digital television in February 2009.

“We don’t have any restrictions on the program with regard to any classification, whether it’s immigration status or economic status ...â€

more freebies. TV is not a right.. is it?

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Illegal Aliens Can Get $40 Digital TV Coupons
The federal government will issue the coupons next year for digital converters.
By Swanni

Washington, D.C. (October 3, 2007) -- The federal government in January will begin issuing $40 coupons to help Americans purchase Digital TV converter boxes so they can keep watching TV when the nation switches to all-digital signals in 2009.

And a Bush administration official said yesterday that illegal aliens will be allowed to get the $40 coupons just like everyone else.

"We don’t have any restrictions on the program with regard to any classification, whether it’s immigration status or economic status ...â€