Interesting anomaly:illegal immigrants are breaking our laws because their laws are being broken!

[healthmyths]

To put the current crisis in context, roughly 63,000 unaccompanied minors, most of whom are reportedly fleeing violence and poverty in Central America, have crossed illegally into the United States since October

These Are The Real Reasons Behind Illegal Immigration | HuffPost

So supposedly the parents of these unaccompanied minors don't care they are breaking the laws of America and want their children to become illegals because their country isn't keeping their laws.

 

[Care4all]

yes, that is usually the case, with most all asylum seekers from all over the world

They are trying to escape the lawlessness and violence or hoping their kids, can make it to a safer place.... in most cases, the word for that is, desperation...

 

[Manonthestreet]

Why don't you they go to a neighboring country..is there not one South American country that's worth livng in.......y your repeated lies are still lies

 

[healthmyths]

yes, that is usually the case, with most all asylum seekers from all over the world

They are trying to escape the lawlessness and violence or hoping their kids, can make it to a safer place.... in most cases, the word for that is, desperation...

And in prior cases it was because Obama administration ENCOURAGED.... YES encouraged this illegal immigration!

A Spanish-language leaflet that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided to the Mexican Embassy in Washington advises border-crossing Mexicans that they can collect taxpayer-funded food stamp benefits for their children without admitting that they're illegal immigrants.

Underlined and in boldface type, the document tells immigrants who are unlawfully in the United States that, 'You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.'

The USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, is funded in order to prevent hunger by helping poor families maintain a basic level of nutrition for both adults and children

The revelation that the USDA is actively working with the Mexican government to promote food stamps for illegal aliens should have a direct impact on the fate of the immigration bill now being debated in Congress,' Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement.
Shocking US government leaflet tells Mexican immigrants they can collect food stamp benefits without admitting they're in the country illegally | Daily Mail Online


And here is another proof that it is OK to break our laws just because your country's not keeping their laws!
Since 2014, hundreds of thousands of children and families have fled to the United States because of rampant violence and gang activity in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. U.S. laws provide asylum or refugee status to qualified applicants, but the Trump administration says smugglers and bad actors are exploiting these same laws to gain entry. Nielsen says the government has detected hundreds of cases of fraud among migrants traveling with children who are not their own. President Trump says he wants to close what he describes as “loopholes” in these humanitarian-relief laws.
Analysis | The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border

 

[BluesLegend]

most of whom are reportedly fleeing violence and poverty in Central America

Once they reach Mexico they are no longer in danger, they escaped the violence and poverty in Central America so why doesn't Mexico give them asylum?

 

[Care4all]

yes, that is usually the case, with most all asylum seekers from all over the world

They are trying to escape the lawlessness and violence or hoping their kids, can make it to a safer place.... in most cases, the word for that is, desperation...

And in prior cases it was because Obama administration ENCOURAGED.... YES encouraged this illegal immigration!

A Spanish-language leaflet that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided to the Mexican Embassy in Washington advises border-crossing Mexicans that they can collect taxpayer-funded food stamp benefits for their children without admitting that they're illegal immigrants.

Underlined and in boldface type, the document tells immigrants who are unlawfully in the United States that, 'You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.'

The USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, is funded in order to prevent hunger by helping poor families maintain a basic level of nutrition for both adults and children

The revelation that the USDA is actively working with the Mexican government to promote food stamps for illegal aliens should have a direct impact on the fate of the immigration bill now being debated in Congress,' Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement.
Shocking US government leaflet tells Mexican immigrants they can collect food stamp benefits without admitting they're in the country illegally | Daily Mail Online


And here is another proof that it is OK to break our laws just because your country's not keeping their laws!
Since 2014, hundreds of thousands of children and families have fled to the United States because of rampant violence and gang activity in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. U.S. laws provide asylum or refugee status to qualified applicants, but the Trump administration says smugglers and bad actors are exploiting these same laws to gain entry. Nielsen says the government has detected hundreds of cases of fraud among migrants traveling with children who are not their own. President Trump says he wants to close what he describes as “loopholes” in these humanitarian-relief laws.
Analysis | The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border

no, just a bunch of spin and lies...

no. illegal immigrant can not get food stamps.... and the program to inform LEGAL immigrants in every country in the world that we allow immigrants in from, began in 2004, under gw bush's administration....and these legal immigrants can not get the food stamps for the first 5 years living here.

Is Obama giving food stamps to Mexicans?

So is the Obama administration luring immigrants to the U.S. with the promise of a cushy $33.35 a week in food assistance? The short answer is no. The long answer is that the program was actually started by Bush and that one has to be in the country legally for five years before even qualifying for food stamps.
But first back to the myth. No one has done more to advance it than Sen. Jeff Sessions, a leading immigration hard-liner in the Senate, who began hectoring the USDA last summer for more information on the program.
"It has become increasingly clear that the mission of the food stamp program has moved from targeted welfare assistance for those in need into an aggressive drive to expand enrollment regardless of need," Sessions wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in July of last year, suggesting the administration was “pressuring” Mexican immigrants to join the rolls.
Naturally, conservative media took the ball and ran with it. The Drudge Report devoted its big banner to the headline: “US Partners with Mexico to Boost Food Stamps Rolls.” Fox News and conservative blogs covered the scandal extensively for several months as Sessions and Vilsack exchanged more letters, but the issue eventually died out late last year.
That is, until immigration came back on the agenda this year. In mid-March, Sessions tried to defund “this controversial promotion campaign,” but Democrats blocked the move on Sessions' Budget Committee. Now, conservatives can attack not only the program, but Democrats for defending it.
So what’s actually going on here?
Here’s what Tucker Carlson et al. get right: The USDA provides information about enrolling in the program at Mexican consulates. Here’s what they get wrong: everything else.
First of all, the program was actually started by George W. Bush in 2004, not Obama. Here’s then-Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announcing the new program in July of 2004:

Many Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals working within the United States have limited awareness of eligibility for Food Stamps and other nutrition programs such as Women, Infants and Children program and school meals. Additional barriers such as the language heightens the need for specialized outreach. The objectives under this agreement include new partnerships, communications outreach in both English and Spanish, and other activities to educate eligible populations.

Secondly, the program doesn't actually provide food stamps to immigrants -- that too was a product of a Bush-era Farm Bill -- but merely information. And it does this not in Mexico, as some claim, but at the country's 45 consulates across the U.S., which Veneman called "an ideal network to help with outreach for USDA nutrition programs."
What this entails is educating consulate staff about the program (hence binational meetings on the program) and making sure brochure racks are adequately supplied with literature on the program, a USDA official, who asked not to be named because of the political delicacy of the issue, told Salon. The USDA does exactly the same thing with local charities, faith organizations and other places they might reach vulnerable populations, the official said.
Third, you can't even qualify for food stamps as a non-citizen until you've been in the country legally for five years. "Undocumented workers are in no way eligible," Melissa Boteach, who studies poverty at the Center for American Progress, told Salon.
Indeed, official USDA guidance notes, "SNAP eligibility has never been extended to undocumented non-citizens." An immigrant hoping to take advantage of American food stamps would have to get a green card, move here, wait five years, and then cash in. It's not exactly a get-rich-quick scheme.
There are some exceptions for children and the infirm, but fewer than 4 percent of food stamp users are non-citizen legal immigrants.
Why would the U.S. want to educate Mexican-Americans about nutrition assistance? Because Latinos have disproportionately high hunger rates.
Of course, attacks on food stamps are nothing new -- Rep. Paul Ryan's budget slashed the food assistance program, for instance. Ironically, Boteach noted, “the entire 10 year cost of the Ryan budget cuts to SNAP could be avoided by closing the tax loophole that covers corporate meals and entertainment.”

 

[Care4all]

most of whom are reportedly fleeing violence and poverty in Central America

Once they reach Mexico they are no longer in danger, they escaped the violence and poverty in Central America so why doesn't Mexico give them asylum?

nope

Asylum applications in Mexico have soared 150% since Trump's election

 

[healthmyths]

yes, that is usually the case, with most all asylum seekers from all over the world

They are trying to escape the lawlessness and violence or hoping their kids, can make it to a safer place.... in most cases, the word for that is, desperation...

And in prior cases it was because Obama administration ENCOURAGED.... YES encouraged this illegal immigration!

A Spanish-language leaflet that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided to the Mexican Embassy in Washington advises border-crossing Mexicans that they can collect taxpayer-funded food stamp benefits for their children without admitting that they're illegal immigrants.

Underlined and in boldface type, the document tells immigrants who are unlawfully in the United States that, 'You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.'

The USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, is funded in order to prevent hunger by helping poor families maintain a basic level of nutrition for both adults and children

The revelation that the USDA is actively working with the Mexican government to promote food stamps for illegal aliens should have a direct impact on the fate of the immigration bill now being debated in Congress,' Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement.
Shocking US government leaflet tells Mexican immigrants they can collect food stamp benefits without admitting they're in the country illegally | Daily Mail Online


And here is another proof that it is OK to break our laws just because your country's not keeping their laws!
Since 2014, hundreds of thousands of children and families have fled to the United States because of rampant violence and gang activity in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. U.S. laws provide asylum or refugee status to qualified applicants, but the Trump administration says smugglers and bad actors are exploiting these same laws to gain entry. Nielsen says the government has detected hundreds of cases of fraud among migrants traveling with children who are not their own. President Trump says he wants to close what he describes as “loopholes” in these humanitarian-relief laws.
Analysis | The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families at the border

no, just a bunch of spin and lies...

no illegal immigrant can get food stamps, never did, never will.... and the program to inform LEGAL immigrants in every country in the world that we allow immigrants in from, began in 2004, under gw bush's administration....and these legal immigrants can not get the food stamps for the first 5 years living here.

Is Obama giving food stamps to Mexicans?

So is the Obama administration luring immigrants to the U.S. with the promise of a cushy $33.35 a week in food assistance? The short answer is no. The long answer is that the program was actually started by Bush and that one has to be in the country legally for five years before even qualifying for food stamps.
But first back to the myth. No one has done more to advance it than Sen. Jeff Sessions, a leading immigration hard-liner in the Senate, who began hectoring the USDA last summer for more information on the program.
"It has become increasingly clear that the mission of the food stamp program has moved from targeted welfare assistance for those in need into an aggressive drive to expand enrollment regardless of need," Sessions wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in July of last year, suggesting the administration was “pressuring” Mexican immigrants to join the rolls.
Naturally, conservative media took the ball and ran with it. The Drudge Report devoted its big banner to the headline: “US Partners with Mexico to Boost Food Stamps Rolls.” Fox News and conservative blogs covered the scandal extensively for several months as Sessions and Vilsack exchanged more letters, but the issue eventually died out late last year.
That is, until immigration came back on the agenda this year. In mid-March, Sessions tried to defund “this controversial promotion campaign,” but Democrats blocked the move on Sessions' Budget Committee. Now, conservatives can attack not only the program, but Democrats for defending it.
So what’s actually going on here?
Here’s what Tucker Carlson et al. get right: The USDA provides information about enrolling in the program at Mexican consulates. Here’s what they get wrong: everything else.
First of all, the program was actually started by George W. Bush in 2004, not Obama. Here’s then-Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announcing the new program in July of 2004:

Many Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals working within the United States have limited awareness of eligibility for Food Stamps and other nutrition programs such as Women, Infants and Children program and school meals. Additional barriers such as the language heightens the need for specialized outreach. The objectives under this agreement include new partnerships, communications outreach in both English and Spanish, and other activities to educate eligible populations.

Secondly, the program doesn't actually provide food stamps to immigrants -- that too was a product of a Bush-era Farm Bill -- but merely information. And it does this not in Mexico, as some claim, but at the country's 45 consulates across the U.S., which Veneman called "an ideal network to help with outreach for USDA nutrition programs."
What this entails is educating consulate staff about the program (hence binational meetings on the program) and making sure brochure racks are adequately supplied with literature on the program, a USDA official, who asked not to be named because of the political delicacy of the issue, told Salon. The USDA does exactly the same thing with local charities, faith organizations and other places they might reach vulnerable populations, the official said.
Third, you can't even qualify for food stamps as a non-citizen until you've been in the country legally for five years. "Undocumented workers are in no way eligible," Melissa Boteach, who studies poverty at the Center for American Progress, told Salon.
Indeed, official USDA guidance notes, "SNAP eligibility has never been extended to undocumented non-citizens." An immigrant hoping to take advantage of American food stamps would have to get a green card, move here, wait five years, and then cash in. It's not exactly a get-rich-quick scheme.
There are some exceptions for children and the infirm, but fewer than 4 percent of food stamp users are non-citizen legal immigrants.
Why would the U.S. want to educate Mexican-Americans about nutrition assistance? Because Latinos have disproportionately high hunger rates.
Of course, attacks on food stamps are nothing new -- Rep. Paul Ryan's budget slashed the food assistance program, for instance. Ironically, Boteach noted, “the entire 10 year cost of the Ryan budget cuts to SNAP could be avoided by closing the tax loophole that covers corporate meals and entertainment.”

All of which you wrote above is true. Don't disagree.

So why then would the Obama Administration encourage these people to illegally enter the USA by providing the below leaflet?
What was the purpose?

A Spanish-language leaflet that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided to the Mexican Embassy in Washington advises border-crossing Mexicans that they can collect taxpayer-funded food stamp benefits for their children without admitting that they're illegal immigrants.

Underlined and in boldface type, the document tells immigrants who are unlawfully in the United States that, '
You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.'

The USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, is funded in order to prevent hunger by helping poor families maintain a basic level of nutrition for both adults and children

The revelation that the USDA is actively working with the Mexican government to promote food stamps for illegal aliens should have a direct impact on the fate of the immigration bill now being debated in Congress,' Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement.
Judicial Watch Uncovers USDA Records Sponsoring U.S. Food Stamp Program for Illegal Aliens - Judicial Watch

 

[healthmyths]

When will all you idiots especially GOP like Laura Bush comprehend the MASSIVE Manipulation of your emotions by the MSM?

Overall, in just six days of coverage (June 13 through June 18) the nets have flooded their broadcasts with almost
three hours (176 minutes) of emotional segments that included pictures of crying children and accompanying anger from correspondents and pundits alike.
CBS had the most coverage, filling their evening and morning shows with 73 minutes of border news. NBC came in second with 67 minutes, while ABC spent 36 minutes on the controversial policy.

And while the policy has been criticized by both Democrats and Republicans (including President Donald Trump himself),

the networks have either completely dismissed or mostly ignored the similar policies in place during the Barack Obama years. In fact, the New York Times actually criticized Obama in a July 18, 2016 editorial, “Mr. Obama’s Dubious Detention Centers.”

The Times scolded: “These privately run, unlicensed lockups are no place for children. Or mothers. Their existence belies President Obama’s oft-professed concern for the humane treatment of people fleeing crime and violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.”

In total the networks devoted just 6 minutes and 29 seconds (barely 3 percent of the coverage) to discussion of Obama’s detaining of children, 1 minute and 37 seconds of which was spent denying the Obama or other past administrations had engaged in policies matching those of the current administration.

Six Days in June: Nets Flood Broadcasts With 176 Minutes of Separated Kids Coverage

 

[Timmy]

The fake news is saying they are breaking the law .

They are not . Coming to our border and asking for help is not a crime .

 

[healthmyths]

The fake news is saying they are breaking the law .

They are not . Coming to our border and asking for help is not a crime .

Hmmm....What happens if you cross Mexico's border without approval?

 

[BluesLegend]

most of whom are reportedly fleeing violence and poverty in Central America

Once they reach Mexico they are no longer in danger, they escaped the violence and poverty in Central America so why doesn't Mexico give them asylum?

nope

Asylum applications in Mexico have soared 150% since Trump's election

Awesome so ALL the central American asylum seekers can stay in Mexico fantastic. We don't need anymore in the US.

 

[Timmy]

The fake news is saying they are breaking the law .

They are not . Coming to our border and asking for help is not a crime .

Hmmm....What happens if you cross Mexico's border without approval?

I’m guessing not much . They seem to get all the way thru Mexico .