DATELINE–Not in my backyard

Welfare legislation on Bubba Bill K-K-Klinton’s desk strips U.S. residents who are not naturalized citizens of their eligibility for Supplemental Security Income.

The ban on SSI payments to non-citizens with U.S. residency status highlights the nation’s increasing hostility towards immigrants, particulary southern Americans, living legally in the U.S.

The term “legal alien” is an official classification of the U.S. government used to denote “…an individual who has lawfully entered the United States of America and who has, with the permission of the sovereign, taken up residency on U.S. soil. [The legal alien] pays federal and state income and sales taxes into national and local coffers, but receives in return neither the right to vote nor elibility for tax-supported benefit payments.”

The SttF legal department predicts an onslaught of “out of this world” legislative and publicity wranglings as the U.S. attempts to avoid the inevitable reshuffling of ethnic hierarchies that will accompany anticipated demographic shifts.

“It’s going to take more than a village to keep the dream of white country alive in the next millenium,” SttF intern Jamie Pirtiggen-Boyle has suggested. “What’s the next genocide? AIDS? CRACK? Intentional starvation of children via the termination of AFDC?”

But the U.S. prescription for its perceived immigrant ills may backfire. Applications for citizenship from eligible legal residents are expected to rise in response to the cancellation of benefits. Many who would have in less vitriolic years remained legal residents indefinitely will be prodded to claim their rightful roles as citizens, stripping the government of lucrative subscribers to its policy of taxation without representation. The newly naturalized citizens will be able receive SSI payments and elect government representatives to boot.

Under current U.S. law, legal immigrants who will be denied SSI under the new welfare regulations will be eligible for welfare benefits as well as electoral enfranchisement after five years of residency when they can apply to become naturalized citizens.

DATELINE–Not in my backyard

Welfare legislation on Bubba Bill K-K-Klinton’s desk strips U.S. residents who are not naturalized citizens of their eligibility for Supplemental Security Income.

The ban on SSI payments to non-citizens with U.S. residency status highlights the nation’s increasing hostility towards immigrants, particulary southern Americans, living legally in the U.S.

The term “legal alien” is an official classification of the U.S. government used to denote “…an individual who has lawfully entered the United States of America and who has, with the permission of the sovereign, taken up residency on U.S. soil. [The legal alien] pays federal and state income and sales taxes into national and local coffers, but receives in return neither the right to vote nor elibility for tax-supported benefit payments.”

The SttF legal department predicts an onslaught of “out of this world” legislative and publicity wranglings as the U.S. attempts to avoid the inevitable reshuffling of ethnic hierarchies that will accompany anticipated demographic shifts.

“It’s going to take more than a village to keep the dream of white country alive in the next millenium,” SttF intern Jamie Pirtiggen-Boyle has suggested. “What’s the next genocide? AIDS? CRACK? Intentional starvation of children via the termination of AFDC?”

But the U.S. prescription for its perceived immigrant ills may backfire. Applications for citizenship from eligible legal residents are expected to rise in response to the cancellation of benefits. Many who would have in less vitriolic years remained legal residents indefinitely will be prodded to claim their rightful roles as citizens, stripping the government of lucrative subscribers to its policy of taxation without representation. The newly naturalized citizens will be able receive SSI payments and elect government representatives to boot.

Under current U.S. law, legal immigrants who will be denied SSI under the new welfare regulations will be eligible for welfare benefits as well as electoral enfranchisement after five years of residency when they can apply to become naturalized citizens.