The likelihood of being or becoming a “public charge” was one of the reasons immigrants arriving at Ellis Island were rejected entry into the United States.
Of course, this is a common sense approach to immigration, a merit based system, and was likewise the thinking of our Founders!
Let us recall what Representative BURKE says during our Nations` first debate on a RULE OF NATURALIZATION, FEB. 3RD, 1790
Mr. BURKE thought it of importance to fill the country with useful men, such as farmers, mechanics, and manufacturers, and, therefore, would hold out every encouragement to them to emigrate to America. This class he would receive on liberal terms; and he was satisfied there would be room enough for them, and for their posterity, for five hundred years to come. There was another class of men, whom he did not think useful, and he did not care what impediments were thrown in their way; such as your European merchants, and factors of merchants, who come with a view of remaining so long as will enable them to acquire a fortune, and then they will leave the country, and carry off all their property with them. These people injure us more than they do us good, and, except in this last sentiment, I can compare them to nothing but leeches. They stick to us until they get their fill of our best blood, and then they fall off and leave us. I look upon the privilege of an American citizen to be an honorable one, and it ought not to be thrown away upon such people. There is another class also that I would interdict, that is, the convicts and criminals which they pour out of British jails. I wish sincerely some mode could be adopted to prevent the importation of such; but that, perhaps, is not in our power; the introduction of them ought to be considered as a high misdemeanor.
Unfortunately, there is a Fifth Column movement in the country, with Obama’s fingerprints on it, which wishes to flood the United States with the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low and unskilled populations of others countries which will be dependent upon government cheese and have a vested interest in voting for socialist type politicians [social democrats] who promise to keep the free cheese wagon coming their way. Without a financially dependent voting block in America, our social democrat party politicians would be kicked out of office. And this is why they conspire to create violent protests around the country against common sense and merit based immigration policy, and likewise protest deporting the financially dependent illegal entrants which they need to keep themselves in power.
JWK
If we can make 51 percent of America’s population dependent upon the federal government for its subsistence, we can then bribe them for their vote, keep ourselves in power and keep the remaining portion of America’s productive population enslaved to pay the bills ____ Our Fifth Column open border crowd’s long term strategy
