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It wasn’t that long ago that the Obama Administration  used a Spanish soap opera format to push food stamps to illegal immigrants and Spanish-speaking Americans:

This was despite the fact that most U.S. families headed by illegal immigrants already used taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their American-born anchor babies.

The Obama USDA was working with Mexico to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamp program.

Obama also encouraged illegal aliens to come to America – and live off of the taxpayer dime!

But there’s a new sheriff in town.

The Trump administration is looking at penalizing immigrants for taking benefits when they come to America.

Nick Miroff at the Washington Post reported:

Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration.

According to a draft of the proposal obtained by the Washington Post, immigration caseworkers would be required to consider a much broader range of factors when determining whether immigrants or their U.S.-citizen children are using public benefits or may likely do so.

Current rules penalize immigrants who receive cash welfare payments, considering them a “public charge.” But the proposed changes from the Department of Homeland Security would widen the government’s definition of benefits to include the widely used Earned Income Tax Credit as well as health insurance subsidies and other “non-cash public benefits.”

The changes would apply to those seeking immigration visas, or legal permanent residency, such as a foreigner with an expiring work visa. While it would make little difference to those living illegally in the shadows, it could affect immigrants protected by the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program – whose termination has been blocked by federal courts – if they attempt to file for full legal residency.

Immigrants and their families facing a short-term crisis could potentially have to forgo help to avoid jeopardizing their U.S. residency status. The proposal would also require more immigrants to post cash bonds if they have a higher probability of needing or accepting public benefits. The minimum bond amount would be $10,000, according to the DHS proposal, but the amount could be set higher if an applicant is deemed at greater risk of neediness.

DHS officials say the proposal is not finalized. But the overhaul is part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to curb legal immigration to the U.S., and groups favoring a more restrictive approach have long insisted that immigrants are a drag on federal budgets and a siphon on American prosperity.

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Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine’s (Va.) hometown newspaper castigated him on Wednesday over his recent comments blaming the National Rifle Association for Congress not passing federal gun-control measures.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial board published a rebuke of Kaine, suggesting that the senator’s claim Sunday that the NRA "has basically been able to gridlock everything in Congress now for nearly decades" was hypocritical and made in bad faith.

Kaine has also said that his colleagues on Capitol Hill are "afraid of the NRA."

The Times-Dispatch editorial hit Kaine for suggesting that the majority of Congress wants to pass gun control but fails to act on legislation because of the pervasive influence of the NRA and other Second Amendment groups. This view, the newspaper argued, implies that Kaine’s colleagues have no ideas of their own and only serve to do "the bidding" of their donors.

"Behind that argument lies an assumption of bad faith: that lawmakers actually favor gun control, and they oppose it—and their own consciences—only because of lobbyist pressure," the editorial board wrote. "Do Kaine’s colleagues know he holds them in such low regard?"

The editorial board pointed out that Kaine has a checkered history on labor issues, supporting Virginia’s right-to-work law before reversing course upon being tapped as Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016. The paper wrote that the reversal, accompanied by campaign finance disclosures showing that union organizations make up two of Kaine’s top 10 donors, could lead one to imply—relying upon an assumption of bad faith—that Kaine "does the bidding of labor-union donors."

Kaine’s hometown paper suggested the senator refrain from taking "abrasive cheap shots" at his colleagues and Second Amendment groups.

"Maybe he should give his pro-gun-rights colleagues a little more credit," the editorial board wrote.

The editorial came one day after Kaine and his Democratic colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee sent a letter to the committee’s chairman and ranking member—Sens. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D., Wash.), respectively—requesting a hearing on school shootings.

"As senators, it is our responsibility to address gun violence like the public health crisis that it is, investigate the causes of these deadly acts of violence and hatred, and make policy changes to ensure that they no longer happen," Kaine and his colleagues wrote.

Throughout his long political career, Kaine has had a convoluted relationship with the Second Amendment.

As the Washington Post previously noted, Kaine, while serving as mayor of Richmond, Virginia, pushed for stronger gun-control measures to tackle the crack and cocaine epidemic.

"There is no issue in the city that is more important than gun violence," Kaine said at the time. "I can’t think of an issue I’d rather be aligned with than this."

In 2000, Kaine generated controversy by using public funds and resources in support of a political cause, sending citizens to Washington, D.C. to attend the Million Moms March, a gun-control rally.

As a statewide candidate for lieutenant governor and governor, however, Kaine embraced the Second Amendment and promised that he would "not propose any new gun laws." The senator stayed true to his word until the Virginia Tech mass shooting in 2007. The shooting, which killed 32 students and teachers, spurred Kaine to push for legislation requiring background checks for sales at gun shows. Although that bill failed to make it through the Virginia General Assembly, Kaine did act unilaterally—via executive order—to limit the sale of guns to individuals forced to undergo involuntary mental health treatment.

Since joining the Senate in 2012, Kaine has been a vocal advocate for gun-control measures. In February, the senator joined his Democratic colleagues in introducing legislation that would ban the sale and transfer of "military-style assault weapons."

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It’s getting hard to keep track of all the lies Democrats have told about the investigation into supposed “Russian collusion” with the Trump campaign. From the origins of “the dossier,” to the FISA application, to the whole wiretapping scandal the falsehoods, half-truths, and untenable innuendo has been piling up for over a year. To keep track of them all, you’d need one of those crazy conspiracy theorist walls with red string connecting all the players.

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A Georgia middle school social studies teacher recently gave his class a writing assignment that has some parents upset, Blue Lives Matter reported.

What’s the story?

Corey Sanders, who teaches seventh-graders at Hampton Middle School in Hampton, assigned his students to write letters to U.S. lawmakers persuading them to pass tighter gun restriction laws.

Sanders’ assignment read:

You are trying to persuade lawmakers to have stricter gun laws to help prevent another school shooting from taking place.

For this assignment, you are writing a letter to the lawmakers of the United States. The purpose of this letter is to pressure lawmakers to have stricter gun laws in the United States. Your letter should contain at least five complete sentences. Make sure that you use proper grammatical skills when writing your letter.

William Lee, a law enforcement officer in a nearby county, told Blue Lives Matter that his son recently brought home the assignment from Hampton Middle School.

“I asked him what he had for homework that night, and he said he had to write a paper on gun control,” Lee said. “I said, ‘Uh, oh. Let me see the assignment.’”

Then Lee logged in to his son’s online classroom, where he confirmed the assignment.

“I looked at it, and I told my son, ‘No, you’re not doing that assignment,’” Lee told Blue Lives Matter. “Then I emailed his teacher the next day and told him that my son would not be writing that.”

The teacher responded to Lee’s email that it was OK for his son not to complete the assignment and that he wouldn’t lose points for not doing it.

What was the intent of the letters?

“The first thing I wondered was what was their intent with these letters,” Lee said. “Were they planning to mail them?”

Then Lee wondered how the assignment fits into his son’s curriculum.

“The Georgia Standard of Excellence, which is what the Henry County curriculum is based on, says that my seventh-grader is supposed to be studying Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in social studies,” Lee said. “There’s nothing in the course curriculum about gun control.”

Other parents also expressed concern about the assignment, according to Lee, but those parents were unaware until after their students had turned in their work.

“Where are these letters now?” Lee asked.

The father said he also wonders if the teacher planned on mailing them.

Sanders did not respond to Blue Lives Matters’ request for comments.

And the school principal and district superintendent have also failed to respond to Blue Lives Matters’ requests.

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