DHS to weigh immigrants' use of Medicaid, food and housing

Thursday, July 16, 2026

In a move that will place hundreds of thousands of green card applicants under broader scrutiny each year, the Trump administration is allowing immigration officers to consider whether some applicants have used taxpayer-funded benefits " including Medicaid, food stamps and housing assistance " when determining whether they qualify for permanent legal status. The Department of Homeland Security is poised to rescind a 2022 Biden-era regulation narrowing how officers apply a long-standing "public charge" test " an immigration screening tool used to determine whether applicants are likely to rely on government support " according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.

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Immigrants are and have been a net plus to the US economy for decades.

"Benefits of Immigration Outweigh the Costs"

www.bushcenter.org

"Immigrants are a fiscal boon to the U.S. In a new report released by the Cato Institute, the authors update a model created by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine the impacts of immigrants on the U.S. government's budget.

Their findings are clear:

In each year from 1994 to 2023, across all levels of government, immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits.

This resulted in a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 U.S. dollars over that period, including savings on interest payments on the national debt."

www.brookings.edu

Trumpers don't need no stinking Facts!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-16 12:01 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

So: spend hundreds of billions and cause billions in losses to the US economy in order to bomb brown people overseas before they get a chance to immigrate and subsequently add billions of dollars to the US economy.

Got it.

Nazis are so ------- dumb.

#2 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-07-16 12:33 PM | Reply

"This resulted in a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 U.S. dollars"

Republicans would rather Americans be $15 trillion dollars poorer, than accept Black and Brown people in their country.

There's no amount of tax dollars they won't spend to support and enshrine racism in the American Way of Life.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-16 05:14 PM | Reply

US Secretary of Homeland Gestapo Markwayne Mullet at a recent junta meeting discussing the abominable living and food conditions at an ICE gulag: "This is not Howard Johnsons." [sic]

Even POWs are entitled to eat sufficiently under the Geneva Conventions.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-16 05:39 PM | Reply

*** DHS Guidance: USG to Starve Immigrants ***

"Roughly 588,000 people file adjustment-of-status applications each year, the formal process for obtaining a green card while already in the US. All of them will now face public charge review under the reinstated framework. An estimated 950,000 people living in immigrant households may choose to forgo or disenroll from benefits they currently receive, out of concern that enrollment could complicate a future immigration proceeding."

Link: Dummkopf Trumpf is a monster

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-17 01:37 AM | Reply

"An estimated 950,000 people living in immigrant households may choose to forgo or disenroll from benefits they currently receive, out of concern that enrollment could complicate a future immigration proceeding."

And, what exactly, is wrong with that?

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 08:59 AM | Reply

"Even POWs are entitled to eat sufficiently under the Geneva Conventions"

That's retarded. These people aren't prisoners. No one made them come here and ask for handouts. But people like you have no issue with unbridled immigration in the US, and the stripping of our resources, all paid for by each and every citizen.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 09:07 AM | Reply

Once here they have every right to be treated decently.

When "outsiders" get Abused it's the first step toward abusing and Detaining "Undesirables", People who Vote the "Wrong" Way, Believe the "Wrong" things, etc.

Abusing Immigrants is prepping the country for Repression of Dissent by CITIZENS.

Trump is the Worst President in American History and that's saying a lot.

He's, also the Worst LOSER in American History, Whining about an Election six years ago that he Clearly Lost.

The only "fair" Elections are ones he won, but seriously, why hasn't anyone looked at 2024?

Trump thinks only he can question Elections?

#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-17 10:03 AM | Reply

" Even POWs are entitled to eat sufficiently under the Geneva Conventions'

No one said they are prisoners.

These folks typically are refugees (politically, economically, violence, and/or otherwise).

Asking for safety/help is not the same as asking for a handout.

They are not stripping our resources. If anything, typically they are a net POSITIVE (financially, culturally, etc.).

EVERY citizen is not paying (ahem 1% *cough*).

#9 | Posted by TrueBlue at 2026-07-17 10:17 AM | Reply

When "outsiders" get Abused it's the first step toward abusing and Detaining "Undesirables", People who Vote the "Wrong" Way, Believe the "Wrong" things, etc.

By, oh - just a hypothetical here - shooting them dead in the streets.

#10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-17 10:40 AM | Reply

Abusing Immigrants is prepping the country for Repression of Dissent by CITIZENS.

#8 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-17 10:03 AM | Reply | Flag:

denying resources to people who never paid a dime for them isn't abuse.

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 11:11 AM | Reply

-No one said they are prisoners

No, but similarities were drawn in #4.

-Asking for safety/help is not the same as asking for a handout

How many do we help before our own resources are depleted and we begin to have to raise taxes to cover it? are the people who pay for this not entitled to an opinion?

"net POSITIVE"

--------, you're repeating Snoofy's narrative. They're being employed for jobs that pay substandard wages, don't offer insurance and they can't even report being hurt. All so you can enjoy cheap ----. Once a champion of fair labor practices, the Democrat party now embraces illegal immigration and earnings below poverty. at least grow a pair and be honest for once.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 11:20 AM | Reply

Trump never paid a dime in Income taxes for Years.

His tax returns showed his losses were so massive he was tax exempt.

On $900,000,000 Income.

#13 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-17 11:21 AM | Reply

- No one made them come here and ask for

Someone apparently missed decades of planned US Corporate dominace and subjegation and bribery of the governments in their countries.

And the more recent climate change that killed their crops and animals and jobs.

Someone who would just as soon mow them down with artillary at the Border.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 11:26 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Trump never paid a dime in Income taxes for Years.
His tax returns showed his losses were so massive he was tax exempt.
On $900,000,000 Income.

#13 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-07-17 11:21 AM | Reply | Flag:

And he did so legally. Democrats should have closed that loophole and ensured these billionaires paid their share... Oopps Democrats can't do that...Because them and their cronies are doing the same thing.

-Nothing will fundamentally change.

Joe Biden to the Billionaires at the swanky dinner in NYC circa 2020....

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 11:26 AM | Reply

Someone who would just as soon mow them down with artillary at the Border.
#14 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 11:26 AM | Reply | Flag:

From WhutAboutQueen to DramaQueen.... Total BS

It's now dUh cLiMaTe cHaNgE!!!!!

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 11:29 AM | Reply

And Trump needs exemption from auditing/penalties for those years he paid no taxes because ...

#17 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-17 11:29 AM | Reply

People like lfthndcuck are miserable about immigrants because they do more for this country than their worthless a&&es do, even when they can't speak the language.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-17 11:30 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

99 percent of Climate Scientists are wrong, and lfthndturds is right?

Delusion is the Trumper's best friend.

#19 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 11:45 AM | Reply

*munches on popcorn while watching partisan hacks try to out-whatabout each other*

#20 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-07-17 12:18 PM | Reply

#20

Ah, if only we mere mortals could be so above it all.

Truly, you are magnificent!

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 12:22 PM | Reply

" denying resources to people who never paid a dime"

Only if you're the one deciding which taxes count, and which don't.

Interesting: you left out the one tax most workers pay more of in their lifetimes. Intellectually dishonest, wouldn't you say?

Republican Math is a scary thing! Stay in school, kids!!!

#22 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-07-17 12:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

99 percent of Climate Scientists are wrong, and lfthndturds is right?

#19 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 11:45 AM | Reply | Flag:

No, 99% of the climate $cientists you listen to are wrong.

#23 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 01:14 PM | Reply

No, 99% of the climate $cientists you listen to are wrong.

#23 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You have no where near the knowledge or credentials to make such a statement.

#24 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-17 01:17 PM | Reply

- the climate $cientists you listen to are wrong.

Only 1Nut could compete in obtusity with this clownshow.

"Scientific consensus identifying humans as primarily responsible for climate change is not new and was already forming in the 1980s.

Today, 97 percent to 99.9 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is happening and that human activity is the primary cause."

www.publichealth.columbia.edu

Or perhaps it's just denial of reality... I mean, Cults do that.

#25 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 01:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Re 24

Perhaps.

But.

He is fully qualified and officially certified and well trained by MAGA maroons and Dear Leader to pull random numbers from his arse.

#26 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-17 01:24 PM | Reply

Interesting: you left out the one tax most workers pay more of in their lifetimes. Intellectually dishonest, wouldn't you say?
Republican Math is a scary thing! Stay in school, kids!!!

#22 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-07-17 12:35 PM | Reply | Flag

You're telling on yourself. Aren't you for a living wage? Why should someone be on gov't assistance if they're working and paying taxes? The people being targeted in this article who "might" refuse assistance if this gains traction, are the ones who don't want to look like a freeloader when it comes time for their hearings. In other words, if you came here and have been working off the books and claiming SNAP, Medicaid, housing assistance etc... it's not going to look good for you.

I guess looting is ok for everyone else to take part in bUhCaUsE gOvErNmEnT sPeNdIng!!!

#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 01:27 PM | Reply

Today, 97 percent to 99.9 percent of climate scientists that you listen to agree.

#28 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 01:28 PM | Reply

Re 28

Still using the officially approved maga maroon random number generator (your arse)?

What a good little maga maroon you have become.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-17 01:33 PM | Reply

Re 28
Still using the officially approved maga maroon random number generator (your arse)?
What a good little maga maroon you have become.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-07-17 01:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

And you're still trying to muddy the water with climate change.

#30 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 01:41 PM | Reply

Homeland Security Secretary Mullin says second Trump admin has so far removed over 3M illegal aliens

justthenews.com

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-07-17 01:46 PM | Reply

Trump needs to spend billions on pet projects and wars for Netanyahu.

So Turds is here to defend treating poor people like criminals.

Just more proof that Trump supporters are complete pieces of garbage.

#32 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-17 01:49 PM | Reply

Homeland Security Secretary Mullin says

He said something, Trump's lackey did?

Wow, look how impressed you are!

#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-17 01:50 PM | Reply

Trump admin has so far removed over 3M illegal aliens

They only have 20 million more to go.

Most can be found working at Mara Lago.

#34 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-07-17 01:51 PM | Reply

When is the decomposing orange child rapist going to ship Melanoma back to Skankvenia?

#35 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-17 01:54 PM | Reply

Trump admin has so far removed over 3M illegal aliens
#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds

By doing so, the Trump admin has lowered GDP by 0.5%.

Why is hurting the economy so high on your list of priorities?

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-17 01:55 PM | Reply

Why should someone be on gov't assistance if they're working and paying taxes?
#27 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Because WAL*MART doesn't pay enough to make ends meet. Even with all the government assistance they get.

Walmart benefits from billions in government subsidies: Study
Walmart and the Walton family benefit from tax breaks and taxpayer subsidies estimated at more than $7.8 billion a year, according to a new report.
www.ms.now

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-17 01:59 PM | Reply

- that you listen to

The obtusity is ENORMOUS!

No, White Boaz, that's the percent of most climate scientist experts, not a select few.

#38 | Posted by Corky at 2026-07-17 02:01 PM | Reply