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President Trump signed a memorandum Thursday that will enforce a 23-year-old provision requiring sponsors of legal immigrants in the U.S. to reimburse the government for any social services such as Medicaid or welfare used by the immigrant, Fox News has learned.

The provision was part of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and Welfare Reform laws that were signed by then-President Bill Clinton, but despite being enshrined in federal law, the rule has not been enforced.

Under the provision, each future sponsor of an immigrant would need to sign an affidavit that would spell out the financial responsibilities for the sponsored immigrant and create a collection mechanism to recover funds from the sponsor. The Department of Health and Human Services is to collect the data of the sponsors and the immigrants, while the Treasury Department would collect the funds.

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The move – part of the president’s push for a merit-based immigration system – is meant to make the person sponsoring the immigrant responsible for any medical or financial benefits the immigrant receives.

The president’s memorandum comes a week after Trump announced his immigration overhaul that, if adopted, would dramatically alter how the U.S. accepts people into the country and upend the system in order to favor admissions based on merit rather than family ties.

“Our plan will transform America’s immigration system into the pride of our nation and the envy of the modern world,” Trump said from the Rose Garden.

The proposal would judge immigrants with a points-based system that would favor high-skilled workers — accounting for age, English proficiency, education and whether the applicant has a well-paying job offer.

Currently, only about 12 percent of immigrants are admitted based on employment and skills, while 66 percent are admitted based on family connections inside the U.S., officials have said. Administration officials estimated that those numbers would flip to 57 and 33 percent, respectively, under the Trump plan.

(Excerpted from Fox News, article by Andrew O’Reilly and John Roberts )
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David W. Locke
May 30, 2019

5/30/19 @ 11:30am

Dear Most High God and
Heavenly Father,

The One Who is Perfect in Love & knows All things!

We worship You, Oh King of Kings, Lord of Lord’s,
The All-Wise I Am 🙏🙌!

May our greatly blessed & beloved nation be guided by Your Heart and Mind through a people & leaders that “seek Your Face” in counsel,

“inquiring of The Lord”,

in this, the all important immigration issue,

as well as so many other concerns that are beyond our solving & causing dangerous division,

leading to our country’s demise.

We cry out to and desperately need You Most Merciful Messiah Jesus!

Forgive us, as we the USA,
“know not what we do”,

but,

on behalf of a Remnant and Faithful Few,

we are certain

“You Alone Lord have “The Words of Eternal Life” 🙌🙌🙌

We humbly beseech You in The Name Above All others,

Jesus Christ The Only
Begotten Son of The Father,

Full of Grace and Truth,

Lamb of God for sinners slain,

Amen

Alan K Veasey
May 30, 2019

President Trump is making the right moves. Praise the Almighty
for choosing him.

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