i actually don't oppose this - so long as the funds are reinvested into services for natural born citizens. i mean, i don't want to see the money disappear from public funds as tax cuts. i suspect that it will...

now, that said, i think that the numbers may, in the end, determine that the problem is not so large as some people might suspect. my understanding is that the united states has a functioning immigration system, and you're looking at a fraction of immigrants that just end up on welfare. but, so long as we live in a capitalist system that pushes down artificial scarcity, there are economic realities around immigration that need to be dealt with - and one of them is that we shouldn't want to bring in people and then park them on welfare. that is a net drain of common resources.

again: we need to know our left from our right, here. leftists are concerned about the efficient management of collective resources, whereas conservatives feel the obligation to help the needy for whatever religious or chivalric reason. it follows that leftists should seek to minimize entry to parasitic migrants, whereas conservatives are going to want to show off how righteous they are as a badge of honour.

where i disagree with trump is on the scope of the problem and on where to redirect the public resources.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/31/14457678/trump-order-immigrants-welfare