Illegal?? No Welfare For YOU!!

 This is a blow to Evers, the Communists Voces de la Frontera bunch, and lots of other "human rights" jackwads.

... In a major reversal, the Department of Justice has discarded a decades-old interpretation of a law that essentially allowed illegal aliens to collect welfare benefits.

In a 20-page slip opinion bearing Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser's signature, the Department of Justice reversed its reading of "federal means-tested public benefit" in light of last year's overturn of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc....

The Chevron overturn meant that Congressional intent--not bureau-weenies--determines how TAXPAYER MONEY is spent.  Or, as in this case, that bureau-weenies cannot make up s**t and put it onto the taxpayer's credit card.

... The previous interpretation, stemming from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 under Democratic President Bill Clinton, extended welfare to illegal aliens by splitting hairs between mandatory and discretionary spending. The DOJ previously directed the Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development to interpret this phrase to allow the extension of benefits to illegal aliens under discretionary benefit programs....

Yah, well....

 ...The new opinion rules that the PRWORA includes benefits under both mandatory and discretionary spending programs and withdraws the preceding 1997 opinion, effectively closing this loophole that allowed illegal aliens to collect welfare benefits.

The opinion notes that the PRWORA had many other parts that would seem to resist the old interpretation, particularly since the relevant section of the law was enacted "to address abuse of the welfare system by aliens in the United States."...

Eric Holder basically told Congress to F.O.A.D.  The Trump peeps fixed that.

By the way, about 60% of illegals are collecting FEDERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS.  That's going to stop.  Let's see if Voces de la Frontera and their ilk steps up and disgorges their cash to make up for it.  After all, giving welfare privately is perfectly legal.

Wanna bet they step up??