USDA partnering with Mexico to boost food stamp participation
USDA has an agreement with Mexico to promote American food assistance programs, including food stamps, among Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals and migrant communities in America.
“USDA and the government of Mexico have entered into a partnership to help educate eligible Mexican nationals living in the United States about available nutrition assistance,” the USDA explains in a brief paragraph on their “Reaching Low-Income Hispanics With Nutrition Assistance” web page. “Mexico will help disseminate this information through its embassy and network of approximately 50 consular offices.”
The partnership — which was signed by former USDA Secretary Ann M. Veneman and Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista in 2004 — sees to it that the Mexican Embassy and Mexican consulates in America provide USDA nutrition assistance program information to Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals working in America and migrant communities in America. The information is specifically focused on eligibility criteria and access.
So, we pay taxes here to educate Mexicans on how to move to the USA and get on the dole.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL-R), who has been pushing for reform of SNAP:
“Applicants need only attest that they are citizens of the United States, and the state must accept that attestation as conclusive,” Sessions explained in his letter. “Some states currently voluntarily participate in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, which allows administrators to run a simple check to determine if non-citizen applicants are eligible for benefits. States that do not use SAVE to verify alien status may simply accept the applicant’s attestation of legal status as a substitute for verification, or, alternately, may accept submitted documents without checking their veracity.”
And
According to Sessions’ office, the Congressional Budget Office was unable to estimate how much money the SAVE amendment would have saved because the federal government does not know how many ineligible illegal immigrants have accessed SNAP.
But the federal government will add some 4,000-4,500 more IRS agents to make you pay for Obamacare.
Look at the bright side, once you’re broke and move to Mexico, you can still get food stamps.
UPDATE,
How is this Not a Betrayal of Every Single American Taxpayer?
Do we need to be borrowing money from China to work with the Mexican government to get more non-Americans on the US dole? Really?
Obama: The food stamp president of Mexico!
Infuriating.
And the elites just roll their eyes, mouth “xenophobic” and complain to each other how they have to put up with knuckle draggers.
Oh, and rejoice over their cheap gardeners, house cleaners and baby sitters.
When I first heard this I thought it was a joke. I don’t know why – I have seen nothing but insanity the past few years.
Someone will actually say this makes perfect sense. I cannot imagine the mental gymnastics that go on to make this seem wonderful.
The inmates have truly taken over the asylum.
Call it Operation Fat & Furious.
All I can say is having seen many Spanish-speaking persons in grocery lines pay with food stamps, that Mexican citizens in the US already are getting a lot of food stamps
Do Americans in Mexico receive the equivalent of SNAP? How about illegal Americans in Mexico? /sarc off