(The Center Square) – Every year, the United States has allowed between 1.47 million to 1.86 million noncitizens to receive food stamps from the federal government at a taxpayer cost of almost $3 billion a year.
That is according to annual reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for its Supplement Nutritional Assistance Program.
“Only U.S. citizens and certain lawfully present non-citizens may receive SNAP benefits,” said Hal Sullivan, spokesperson for the USDA in an email to The Center Square. “SNAP is not and has never been available to undocumented non-citizens. Non-citizens like tourists and students are generally not eligible. Non-citizens who are eligible based on their immigration status must meet SNAP eligibility requirements, such as income and resource limits, and may also need to meet a waiting period.”
Noncitizens eligible for food stamps include refugees, individuals granted asylum, victims of severe trafficking, people who have had their deportation withheld, Amerasians, Cuban and Haitian entrants, Iraqi and Afghan special immigrants, Green Card holders, battered non-citizens, conditional entrants and those granted parole for a period of at least one year are eligible for SNAP.
As of April 2024, SNAP had 41.58 million participants with annual benefits costing about $90 billion.
In 2022, there were 1.46 million noncitizens on SNAP at an annual cost of $2.95 billion. That’s the most recent year data is available. There were 1.44 million noncitizens on food stamps in 2019 at an annual cost of $2.12 billion. In 2015, there were 1.86 million nonresidents receiving SNAP benefits at an annual cost of $2.97 billion.
This Democrat Party have imported 12,000,000 (12 Million) homeless illegal immigrants and WE the taxpayers are forced to provide support, providing FREE food, clothing, housing, medical, dental and transportation. That is $36,000,000,000 ($36 Billion) each and every month that we the taxpayers are forced to give the ILLEGAL immigrants just so that the Democrat Party will have a greater representation in congress and influence elections. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Do our homeless citizens and veterans receive such Free support? …. Hell NO!
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
But come not here with only a yearning to EAT free, instead of breathe free, and give us a break and about a 10 year hiatus to catch up absorbing and paying of the illegal costs you created in of your overwhelming ILLEGAL entries, whose clustered environment that you brought with you have blown out the energy that used to fuel our very Lamps of Liberty, and now overwhelmingly over-clutter in trash our streets, our hotels, our parks our beaches made worse in entitlement mentalities now, than the teeming failed socialist shores you fled from, that have tempest-tossed our own collective American peace and prosperity right into the dark denizens of the deep failed oceans of corruption you came in from.
“Let those who shall not work, neither shall they eat”,,, but just go back from where you came! And take the criminals, molesters, store thieves and drug needles with you when you go.”,,whose well played liberal media tunes of “Pomp and circumstances” has graduated America into a hell-hole of self-chosen moral and financial poverty, resulting in the worst of all possible circumstances for all.
Very well said! Bravo!
2 Thessalonians 3:10 “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
Matthew 7: Nine One One
“Which of you is a father whose son will ask him for bread and would hand him a stone, and if he asks him for a fish will, instead of a fish, hand him a snake,”,,,,,,,Joe and Kamala of Course,,,,They gave Hunter a joint and then he got stoned, then handed him out on fishy foreign deals that turned him into a snake.
Just how many unrealistic gifting Christmas like promises did they make that only left us holding the bags that were empty, except for a very few pieces of coal in our stockings?
” KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE BUT KEEP YOUR ENEMYS EVEN CLOSER.”
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I Still would love to see someone SUE, over giving food stamps and EVERY OTHER DAMN handout to illegals, as being unconstitutional!
Turn the non-citizens into Soylent Green.
THE LAW BY FREDERIC BASTIAT
” BUT IS ANOTHER TENDENCY THAT IS COMMON AMONG PEOPLE, WHEN THEY CAN, THEY WISH TO LIVE AND PROSPER AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS.” PAGE # 9.
This is traitorous to citizens to steal their wealth to stay in power, the whole while stabbing the innocent and working people!
I was watching a vid, of all the ‘free govt’ programs that “Low income folks” (meaning welfare leeches, layabouts, and the like) can get, and I as a military vet, single, with no kids, even though i “Make” less money a year than some of those welfare leeches do, WOULD NEVER EVER be able to qualify for…
We have a law which allows prosecution for lying to the F.B.I.. We NEED a law allowing for prosecution of Politicians LYING to the USA CITIZENS and voters!