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Are there any way a nonimmigrant in the US can get any of the welfare? If the answer is no, how does this apply?

• JAlexoid 6y ago
  Even an immigrant cannot get welfare for a long time. This is typical American ignorance and xenophobia. - take it from an immigrant, that is not staying long term
  • tomp 6y ago
    > - take it from an immigrant, that is not staying long term But if the US is so terrible and xenophobic, why don't you go somewhere else? (Hint: other countries are even worse.)
    • JAlexoid 6y ago
      The horrible Switzerland, that literally voted for open borders a few weeks ago. But thank's for being that stereotype I was referring to.
• panzagl 6y ago
  'Welfare' on a federal level now means a combination of Social Security disability and redeemable income tax credits- basically they have no income, but Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, means they get money back on their taxes anyway. And of course if they have children there are a number of federal and local programs that ostensibly help feed the child, but are easily worked around to turn into money- in the old days you'd spend all day buying individual kool aid packets (pay with a dollar voucher, get 75 cents real money in exchange), now you're more like to buy high end food items and sell them on, or else some sort of item return fraud.