From the Daily News:
Q. If I receive food stamps and Medicaid, will that keep me from becoming a U.S. citizen? I am a permanent resident of the United States.
Anthony, Manhattan
A. You can naturalize even if you are receiving public assistance. And you can probably get the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to waive your naturalization application filing fee.
A citizenship applicant does not need to prove income or financial support as a condition for naturalization. Receiving public assistance sometimes becomes an issue if the applicant gets assistance by lying and the truth comes out at the naturalization interview. But in that situation, the USCIS examiner denies the application because of the lie, not because of the assistance.
As a recipient of public assistance, you should be eligible for a waiver of the $675 naturalization filing fee.
It used to be that immigrants had to find sponsors that would swear to be responsible for them if they should become a burden on society. But then that got in the way of registering new Democrats to vote...
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"As a recipient of public assistance, you should be eligible for a waiver of the $675 naturalization filing fee."
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Now that's just magnificent.
Begging makes you eligible for more rights to beg.
And we are expected to toss our money into the beggars cup.
Back home with you now. My father worked 2 jobs continuously when he arrived from Ireland and you can too. Have the taxi companies and bars stopped hiring?
A therapist I know will no longer take on Asian patients because too many have asked her to help them get on SSI. Their claim - mental deficiency as evidenced by their inability to learn English!
Check out the big Asian supermarket on Northern and 160st (the old movie theater location). Every time I've been there, the person in front of me pulls out a food stamps card. And the parking lot is full of Mercedes. I was never a racist until moving home to Queens. Asians are masters at playing the system!
Why the f*ck are we giving these people public assistance in the first place?!
Meanwhile, the senior citizens who need their medicine are cutting their pills in half because they can't afford them. These seniors paid into the system for years. Something is definitely wrong with this picture. SSI should only be available to the people that pay into it. When are citizens going to get something for their hard labor and their payment of all their high taxes for so many years? Americans First. That should be a political party, like Democrat and Republican. Americans First!
Meanwhile, the senior citizens who need their medicine are cutting their pills in half because they can't afford them.
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The same seniors that reelected the clubhouse by massive margins each year?
I don't feel sorry for them.
I always stick up for immigrants here because they get bashed unfairly and mercilessly on this site but this is a joke.
I am for immigrants who can contribute to this country not be part of the problem. As for the welfare, it should got to citizens only (or immigrants who were injured serving in the military)
I was never a racist until moving home to Queens.
I saw a button a couple years ago, it said something like "Diversity Made Me A Racist".
I should have bought a bunch of those!
There's a reason why the most liberal states and neighborhoods in the United States are also the whitest - Vermont, Minnesota, Upper West Side, Park Slope. It's easy to be a liberal when you don't have to contend with diversity.
I seem to recall a time when part of being allowed to immigrate here was offering proof that you would not be a drain on taxpayers, that you would be able to support yourself of be supported by a close family member. Oh, I must be very old indeed to remember those days!
It's easy to be a liberal when you don't have to contend with diversity.
And it's easy to be conservative when you're never exposed to diversity. (How white is YOUR neighborhood, Wade?) Let's keep in mind that it's not only liberal places that are the "whitest," it's also bastions of conservatism like Middle America.
But really... dragging race into the discussion clouds the fact that it's socioeconomic diversity we should be discussing here. Not that I'm accusing you, Wade, of racism. That would only pique your ire and cause you to sling mud.
Even if your family immigrated to this country, you can still take umbrage at people who come offering nothing and taking everything.
There is an old story about the Irish immigrant who came to America where the streets were paved with gold.
He discovered, the streets weren't paved with gold, in fact, they weren't paved at all, and he was expected to do the paving.
If you are willing to "do the paving" God bless, come right in. Otherwise, stay home and drain your own kinsmen.
And it's easy to be conservative when you're never exposed to diversity.
No, you've got the causation reversed. Diversity MAKES a person conservative. "Familiarity breeds contempt" is the old saying.
(How white is YOUR neighborhood, Wade?)
Not as white as I'd like, but I'm willing to bet YOUR neighborhood is whiter!
Let's keep in mind that it's not only liberal places that are the "whitest," it's also bastions of conservatism like Middle America.
Where do your children go to school?
Exactly.
flooshing resident this is falyeshing resident since 87 everyone plays the system sorry you're racsist why dont you move back to where ever the hell it is you came from and let the asians who built flushing into the self sustaining economy it is today alone
you cant even mock the accent correctly you fail
Not as white as I'd like, but I'm willing to bet YOUR neighborhood is whiter!
Seriously doubt that. I'm in one of those neighborhoods regularly booed around here for being full of brown people. Doesn't bother me a bit. I still manage to be a (gasp!) liberal.
But it's good to have you on record as wishing your neighborhood whiter. You're almost as brave as that Prejean ditz.
Me: Let's keep in mind that it's not only liberal places that are the "whitest," it's also bastions of conservatism like Middle America.
You: Where do your children go to school?
Is that you changing the subject, Wade?
This is really not on topic, but I'll have you know that my children attend school neither in Kansas nor in Vermont nor in your beloved UWS.
Now, do you have anything to say about Red States being White?
But again, your obsession with race is distracting us all and obfuscating the matter here. If you want to talk diversity, lets' stick to the socioeconomic brand that's germane to the discussion of welfare and food stamps.
Is that you changing the subject, Wade?
This is really not on topic
No, it is right on topic.
Folks like you are ALWAYS hypocrites when it comes to your alleged beliefs in your religion of diversity and multiCULTuralism.
You can tell the whole world how morally superior to other white people you are, because you live in a "diverse" neighborhood. But unless you put your money where your mouth is, and actually send your children to public schools, and your children are in the regular classes with the low IQ diverse hoi polloi, and NOT segregated from them in the "gifted classes", then you're not living according to your alleged principles.
If you actually do send your kids to public school in a diverse neighborhood, and they're not in the gifted program, but with all the other kids, then you: 1.) Don't really love your children; 2.) Ought to have your head examined; 3.) Should be arrested for child abuse; 4.) Your children will hate your guts when they eventually get beat up.
If you want to talk diversity, lets' stick to the socioeconomic brand that's germane to the discussion of welfare and food stamps.
Yes, let's avoid the "brown elephant" in the middle of the room, because you're a wimpy white beta male, and don't want to discuss things that make you feel uncomfortable.
But unless you put your money where your mouth is, and actually send your children to public schools, and your children are in the regular classes with the low IQ diverse hoi polloi, and NOT segregated from them in the "gifted classes", then you're not living according to your alleged principles.
You're confused.
First, I've got nothing to prove, so I don't have to put my money where my mouth is. I merely stated that I don't mind - nay, I relish - the racial diversity you abhor and fear.
Second, even if I allow that, to be morally consistent, I need to be sending my children to public schools, that in no way obligates me to force them into the remedial classes when they deserve to be in the gifted room. The blather you submit as argument is equivalent to saying that even if I don't care for broccoli, but I champion the rights of other people to eat broccoli, then I must also eat broccoli every day to be "putting my money where my mouth is." Just another of your fallacies, Wade.
Yes, let's avoid the "brown elephant" in the middle of the room, because blah, blah, blah... more Wade nonsense.
It's amazing what contortions right-wingers will put themselves through to give the appearance of winning an argument. Once again, the topic is welfare, food stamps, and a guy named Anthony. This is clearly about economic disparities, yet you want to force-feed us race, race, race. Who's avoiding the "brown elephant" here? Who would rather air his ideals of racial purity than talk about the real problems facing this country, like the fact that the top five percent of Americans hold 75% (and growing) of all wealth, while the number of low-income Americans who depend on the social safety net are increasing. Why is it that you only reply to attacks with sound bites, while you avoid entirely responding to substantive arguments?
As another commenter has pointed out, you're a tool, Wade. Sadly, everybody knows it but you.
blah, blah, let others do whatever they want!!!!! mind your business!!!
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