Trump is deporting migrants who go on welfare.
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 18, 2025
Especially the fat ones.
This could toss 6 in 10. And raises the surreal prospect migrants could actually pay for their own groceries. pic.twitter.com/3tpsVfYh8y
Donald Trump is cutting off migrants who go on welfare, especially the fat ones, raising the surreal prospect that migrants could actually pay for their own Healthcare, even their own groceries.
Last week, the State Department announced it would be enforcing the century old Public Charge Laws [term was introduced in the Immigration Act of 1882] that deny visas and entry to people who are likely to rely on public benefits, including welfare, housing, or Medicare provided free by taxpayers. The rules had been ignored by Biden's hailers so they could replace American voters with their 3rd worlders and therein a major reason why almost 4 in 10 migrants do not bother working. The rule would deny entry to anybody who has ever used government cash assistance, SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, or who's ever been institutionalized, or their nursing home. That could hit up to 6 and 10 non-citizen households, including so-called mixed status households where the anchor baby unleashes a flood of benefits. In fact, a separate study found 36% of non-citizens have used SNAP; 37% have used Medicaid; 22% literally collect cash payments, TANF. In all, the Center for Immigration Statistics estimates almost 2/3 of non-citizen households have taken taxpayer money. Though the real number could be much higher, illegals have every reason to hide their status as do the left-wing bureaucrats who import them. Now beyond the grifters, the rule requires a medical report that would exclude anybody with major health issues that could burden taxpayers. So no more Guatemalans parachuting in for free dialysis or million-dollar transplants. Conditions include diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, which one in three Mexicans have; it includes obese migrants who after all are very likely to consume tax-funded Healthcare resources, along with anybody with mental health conditions or drug addiction which seems long overdue. Worth pausing to know that billions of people want to move to the US, meaning we could cherry pick the very best, the best one in a thousand, the Elons, the Arnold Schwarzeneggers, the Japanese Nobel physicists. Instead, we take millions of drags so that millions of dregs so Democrats can recruit new voters. Now all this matters because American taxpayers currently waste almost $200 billion a year on migrants, according to the Heritage Foundation, when we could be turning a massive profit from cherry picking the best. I recently mentioned a European study that found migrants from Western countries or Japan generate half a million dollars in net benefits per migrant, while those from the 3rd world consume half a million or more per person.
The new rule is being implemented by the famously left-wing State Department, so it will take eagle eyes to make sure they're doing what they're supposed to. But the big payoff would be reviewing the 13 million green card holders whose permanent residency should also be subject to Public Charge rules. After all it's a privilege to come to this country; if you can't hack it, go home. Trump needs Congress to do this; he can only do new entrants. And giving green cards to convert to citizens at 70,000 per month, the clock is ticking. So it's a great start from Trump, but Congress needs to finish the job.
