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A Center for Immigration Statistics study found 47% of immigrant households use welfare programs, with usage rates varying by origin from 19% (Canada) to over 80% (Afghanistan, Somalia).
Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates illegal immigrants cost $150 billion annually in welfare, receiving six times more benefits than they pay in taxes.
The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 shifted US immigration from skills-based quotas to family reunification, increasing annual legal migration from 200,000 to over 1 million.
The Trump administration's new USCIS memo requires non-immigrants in the U.S. to return to their home country to apply for green cards, impacting students, temporary workers, and tourists.
DOJ announced charges against four non-citizens for illegally voting in federal elections, a claim Kash Patel had previously predicted.
The four charged individuals in New Jersey were permanent residents who registered to vote and cast ballots before applying for naturalization via the N-400 form.
Charges varied among the four individuals, with only two facing 'voting by an alien' charges; others were charged with false statements or unlawful procurement of citizenship.
Trump's DOJ has sued over thirty states for access to voter rolls to cross-reference with the DHS SAVE database, aiming to identify non-citizen voters.
James Stout notes the SAVE database is error-prone and combining it with voter rolls creates a disincentive for both immigrants and citizens to access benefits or register to vote.
The U.S. Immigration Service announced a new policy requiring green card applicants to first leave the country, a radical change that Ryan Grim says makes legal immigration impossible.
Darya Lisa Chevalier, a Justice Democrats-endorsed challenger to Adriano Espaillat, argues his votes to fund ICE and send arms to Israel show absence in a district needing housing and public investment.
Chevalier cites over 100,000 homeless NYC public school kids and disinvestment from public housing as reasons to elect organizers who fight for working-class people over war and ICE.
Guest cites polls showing young men who voted Trump rank having children as a top life goal, but find it economically unfeasible due to his policies on tariffs and the Iran war increasing costs.
Lowe's immigration policy focuses on creating a 'hostile environment' for illegal migrants. He proposes deporting illegal arrivals, illegal residents, and foreign criminals in prisons, then using incentives to encourage non-contributing legal migrants to leave.
Rojas sees the Castro indictment as a symbolic move to appease South Florida voters, noting Trump's approval has cratered among Latino voters, including Cuban Americans wary of his deportation policy.
My Wang, a Hmong refugee and Sacramento city councilwoman, runs on abolishing ICE, supporting a Gaza ceasefire, taxing billionaires, and an AI data center moratorium, while rejecting corporate PAC money.
Wang says over 40,000 Hmong villagers and soldiers aged ten and up died fighting for the US in the Secret War in Laos, leading to her family's displacement and her political awakening.
Trump is reportedly demanding Congress fund a billion-dollar ballroom and security complex, holding up ICE and CBP funding as leverage.
Ala Stanford's campaign imploded after she could not answer who should enforce immigration laws if ICE is abolished, stating enforcement 'belongs with Congress.'
Narinda counters that a business unable to pay adequate wages has a flawed model, and that Indian immigrant success relied on family labor, not employees.
Narinda argues immigration criticism is weaponized by racists, noting no Ukrainians arrive on small boats because they were given safe routes.
McCormack questions if declining white population share is a valid discussion, while Narinda says immigration has always occurred and must be accepted.
Narinda asserts brown and black immigrants do essential work and if they left, sectors like the NHS and social care would collapse.