Thread: AZ-Don’t ask for Band-aids or food stamps for the kids

In Arizona, don’t ask for Band-aids or food stamps for the kids
Monday, January 4, 2010
By Father Tom Joyce CMF
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In Arizona, don’t ask for Band-aids or food stamps for the kids


Arizona has the toughest state legislation against undocumented immigrants. Its employer sanctions have received most of the attention as challenges to the sanctions are winding their ways up to the Supreme Court. But more disturbing to the Hispanic community is a provision hidden in this year’s state budget that requires state workers to report any undocumented applying for a state benefit to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Failure to do so is a misdemeanor.

The law, which took effect Nov. 24, is so vague that some feared at first that even calling the fire department to put out a blaze would require the fire department to turn in the undocumented caller. The Republican sponsors of the measure said that was silly and asked that some common sense be used. But common sense, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. There is still much confusion as to the extent of the law.

But in the Hispanic community it’s more than confusion. It’s created fear. In the early days of the law many applicants had their names sent to ICE and were deported. As a consequence, there is fear among the undocumented, even to apply for benefits their U.S.-born children are entitled to – most commonly health care (CHIP) or food stamps. Some parents are afraid to go to the emergency room, though they are entitled by federal law to treatment there. That fear has caught the undocumented only pleases the sponsors of the legislation, since their intent was more to drive them from the state than to save money. (See Arizona Republic.)

Now fewer undocumented are being reported, in part because fear is keeping applicants away, but also because the state Department of Economic Security has given clearer instructions on how to comply with the law. No one is to be reported to ICE except if he/she admits to being here illegally or there is some evidence that she/he is undocumented. Also they must be applying for the benefit for themselves or other undocumented. So a parent applying for benefits for U.S. citizen children and have proof of citizenship are not to be reported. The DES is now waiting of an opinion from the state attorney general on the scope of the law.


http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/2010/01/ ... tamps-kids

Innocent people generally should have nothing to fear!

This is what we have been dreaming of for, gosh, 10 years now...With Napolitano out, I guess things are getting done? Illegals will have to flee to Blue States, with compounded budget problems, or Mexico.

The jobs are drying up, so the labor force is not needed. The 'growth' based on illegal immigration is costing us our country.

So a parent applying for benefits for U.S. citizen children and have proof of citizenship are not to be reported.

So how does that work? Parent asked how many in household, kids and adults. As long as one of the kids is an anchor baby, they all get food stamps? Isn't that giving benefits to the illegal alien members of the family? Seems they need to be reported, unless that parent has valid ID for every single member in the family who will be eating food purchased with food stamps.

Originally Posted by Arizonablues

This is what we have been dreaming of for, gosh, 10 years now...With Napolitano out, I guess things are getting done? Illegals will have to flee to Blue States, with compounded budget problems, or Mexico.

The jobs are drying up, so the labor force is not needed. The 'growth' based on illegal immigration is costing us our country.

Great point! It took the promotion of Napolitano to DHS to contain the illegal invader invasion in Arizona! This woman could not secure the borders of Arizona, much less this nation.

What a disgrace!

I think I am as much a humanitarian as anyone on the left but I believe that the 1982 decision of the SCOTUS to guarantee PS education to IA children was a great mistake. Think about it...what parent would take their children to a place they know the children would be denied schooling?