00:00:46.000So, when my great great grandparents got here from Lithuania and Russia more than 100 years ago, they came here with pretty much nothing.
00:00:54.000And they were entitled to pretty much nothing because that's the way that things work.1.00
00:00:57.000This was true of virtually all immigrants to the United States for the first 160 years or so of our existence.0.73
00:01:03.000They came here knowing that they probably weren't going to get anything.
00:01:07.000There were some mutual aid societies, maybe some friends and family who were already here who might be able to help them out, but the government was not going to be the primary means of support for these people, and they knew it.
00:01:17.000They were coming here because they were coming for the opportunity.
00:01:21.000Well, it meant high levels of assimilation.
00:01:24.000If you can't get paid without a job, and if you can't get a job without assimilating, you actually have to assimilate.
00:01:28.000So, again, for my great great grandparents, they came here speaking Yiddish, and within a generation, everybody was speaking English.
00:01:34.000This is very common among immigrants from the places that, again, my ancestors came from.
00:01:39.000They came here and they said to their kids, You are not allowed to speak Yiddish in the home.
00:01:43.000You actually have to speak English so you can learn English and then assimilate.
00:01:46.000Second, it meant a lot more involvement with social institutions.
00:01:50.000So that meant more involvement if you were a Christian immigrant with your church, because if you needed help, you went to your local religious institution for that help.
00:01:58.000And that was good because when you go to your local religious institution for help, as opposed to going to the government, that comes along with strings like acting well.
00:02:06.000And when you're part of a community and you're drawing from the communal pool in terms of support, you owe things back to the community.
00:02:13.000It's not just a faceless check arriving in the mail.
00:02:16.000Third, it meant drawing a certain type of immigrant, the type of person who came here for the opportunity, who wanted to work, who was upwardly mobile.
00:02:22.000I mean, that was the basic bargain.0.91
00:02:25.000The basic bargain was you come here to work.
00:02:28.000It's the difference between a store putting out a help wanted sign and a store putting out a free donut sign.
00:02:33.000It's going to draw two very different types of people.
00:02:36.000Help wanted brings the job applicants, free donuts brings the people who want free donuts.
00:02:40.000Well, the free donuts were the welfare state.
00:02:42.000And then came the Immigration Naturalization Act alongside the Great Society programs of LBJ.
00:02:47.000Again, if you change the incentive structure, you're going to draw different people.
00:02:53.000Daniel DiMartino of Manhattan Institute explains what is called the public charge rule.
00:02:59.000So, one of the ways that we were supposed to combat this was a federal rule that said you don't get to come in the country and then become a public charge, meaning you are dependent on public welfare benefits.
00:03:09.000As he points out over at Manhattan Institute, one of the first federal immigration restrictions was the Immigration Act of 1882's ban on immigrants who are unable to take care of themselves without becoming a public charge.
00:03:19.000In the Immigration Act of 1889, Congress excluded paupers or persons likely to become a public charge.
00:03:25.000For nearly 150 years, longer than any modern federal welfare or entitlement program has existed, U.S. immigration law has included some form of public charge exclusion.0.98
00:03:35.000Again, Congress recognized that given the fact the United States is very wealthy, a lot of people would come here and would be better off as paupers than they would staying in their native countries, which of course is very true today.0.95
00:03:46.000The current form of the public charge rule is found in the Immigration and Naturalization Act, and it provides that any alien who, in the opinion of the consular officer at the time of application for a visa or, in the opinion of the attorney general, At the time of application for admission or adjustment of status, it is likely at any time to become a public charge, is inadmissible.0.95
00:04:11.000The current standard, as DiMartino points out, used to determine if a prospective immigrant is likely to become a public charge, is based on a 1999 interim field guidance issued during the Clinton administration.
00:04:23.000That standard is not particularly hard to meet.
00:04:25.000In 2017, about 1,000 immigrant visa petitions out of a million.
00:04:30.000Were rejected based on the public charge rule, which of course is insane.
00:04:36.000I mean, the idea that you have over 1 million people who are coming here, many, many of whom will become public charges, and only 1,000 get rejected on that ground is nuts.
00:04:48.000Why wasn't the public charge rule really implemented?
00:04:50.000Well, again, we have to look at the history of how immigration worked in the United States.
00:04:55.000So, as you say, in the beginning of the 20th century, you had vast migration to the United States, but pretty much no federal welfare programs.
00:05:02.000Then, in the 1930s, you had the New Deal programs, which were accessible to legal residents.
00:05:07.000But Immigrant households were less likely to receive welfare than native born households.
00:05:12.000And that was because we just didn't have that many immigrants.
00:05:15.000During the 1930s, we really restricted immigration.
00:05:19.000You can see the volume of U.S. immigration and contents of origin by decade from 1820 to 2013.
00:05:25.000Look at the gigantic drop off from 1920 to 1930.
00:05:29.000And you can see the low levels of immigration that basically maintain up until you hit the post war era.
00:05:35.000And then you see them again skyrocket in the aftermath of the INA.
00:05:39.000From the 1970s, which is post Immigration and Naturalization Act, the Hart Sellers Act, into the late 20th century, you see two things combined.0.83
00:05:47.000One, vast, vast numbers of immigrants.
00:05:50.000And second, expansion under the Great Society programs and their successors of unconditional cash aid and expanded food stamps.
00:05:57.000By 1990, 21% of immigrant households were receiving cash, Medicaid, SNAP, or housing assistance versus 14% of native households, according to the National Bureau of Economics.
00:06:08.000So in 1996, under welfare reform, What was called the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, right?
00:06:15.000Welfare reform, which was one of the great achievements of bipartisanship in the United States between the Newt Gingrich led Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton.
00:06:23.000One of the provisions was a five year ban on green card holders receiving cash assistance or food assistance.0.65
00:06:29.000Refugees and asylum seekers were exempted because, again, the reason they were getting in was the idea was that we had to let them in or they'd be killed elsewhere.
00:06:36.000That's why it was such a betrayal when Joe Biden decided that seeking asylum just meant you were poor.
00:06:50.000In any case, very, very quickly, there was a bipartisan consensus to undo all of this, mainly out of misplaced sympathy and empathy.
00:07:00.000Not empathy for the American taxpayer and the people who'd have to shoulder the burden, sympathy and empathy for the people who are coming here and wanted to then support themselves by taking money from the public trust.
00:07:11.000The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 reversed some of the harshest cuts by restoring Supplemental Security Income SSI.0.91
00:07:17.000And derivative Medicaid benefits to the elderly and disabled immigrants who are already in the United States.0.95
00:07:22.000Again, these are people with green cards.0.99
00:07:26.000And then the Agricultural Research Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998 restored SNAP eligibility to immigrant children, the elderly, and disabled individuals who had been lawfully residing in the U.S. prior to August 1996.
00:07:39.000And then the 2002 Farm Bill under George W. Bush dramatically expanded SNAP access, completely eliminating the five year waiting period for all lawfully present immigrant children.
00:07:49.000Regardless of when they entered the country.
00:07:50.000So basically, just undid welfare reform with regards to minors.
00:07:54.000It also restored adult SNAP benefits for legal immigrants who had resided in the U.S. for five years or who were receiving disability benefits.
00:08:01.000And even to counteract that federal five year bar, states began stepping in with their own dollars during that period.0.76
00:08:08.000More than three quarters of American states opted into federal provisions allowing them to use Medicaid funds to cover immigrant children, which of course made some sense because otherwise all these immigrant kids just end up in the ER.0.58
00:08:20.000And then federal agencies jumped in.0.54
00:08:22.000They started narrowly defining means tested public benefits.
00:08:27.000So, limiting that definition to just a few core programs like TAMF and SNAP and SSI and Medicaid allowed executive agencies to keep dozens of other discretionary, lower cost or public health programs like Head Start, Community Health Clinics, and WIC fully open to immigrants.0.54
00:08:43.000So, basically, in the decades after welfare reform, an immigrant's use these are legal immigrants we're talking about use of non cash benefits like Medicaid or SNAP would not label them a public charge, which meant they could continue to move towards citizenship and made them eligible for everything because once you weren't A citizen, then you're eligible for legitimately all welfare programs.0.63
00:09:04.000Well, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, over half, over half, 53 to 54 percent of immigrant households today use one major welfare program that is higher than the 37 to 39 percent of native born households.
00:09:18.000Among non citizen households, both illegal and legal, almost 60 percent are on one major welfare program.
00:09:25.000Immigrant households tend to use non cash assistance like Medicaid and SNAP more than cash programs.
00:09:30.000When compared to native born households.0.99
00:09:35.000So, again, it is an insane proposition that we should just open our borders and also gigantically expand our welfare state for the people who are coming in.0.98
00:09:44.000This is what Milton Friedman made.0.92
00:09:46.000Milton Friedman, who is a libertarian when it came to border control, said it's one thing to have open immigration when you don't have a sack of cash on the other end.
00:09:54.000But the moment you put a sack of cash on the other end, obviously everyone is going to cross the border for the sack of cash.
00:09:59.000Now, again, that puts aside all cultural concerns, even all assimilationist concerns.
00:10:04.000That is just a basic fact of logic, which is why, if you go back far enough, Bernie Sanders, a socialist, used to be in favor of limited immigration because even Bernie Sanders understood you bankrupt yourself.
00:10:14.000Then, of course, Bernie decided he had to cater to the woke brigade inside his own party and he went in favor of open borders.
00:10:21.000But it's not as though we haven't seen this here.
00:10:27.000One of the reasons that you have seen this vast spate of right wing upsurge in Europe is not just because of lack of assimilation or no go zones in Widespread European countries ranging from Sweden to France to Germany.
00:10:40.000It is also because of welfare dependency.
00:10:44.000Welfare dependency and crime, by the way, have a heavy overlap because, again, if you are coming to a country to take advantage of its welfare benefits and not integrate into the system, it turns out the same mentality that says the government owes you something says society owes you something.
00:10:58.000And it's pretty easy to justify stealing from people as an aspect of this.
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00:12:53.000They want them to become citizens and then they want them to vote.
00:12:56.000That is the goal because that fosters the kind of government they seek.
00:13:01.000Zoran Momdani would love to import millions more people into Manhattan, increasing demand without increasing supply, have those people be dependent on public welfare benefits and then vote for him because if you can just vote yourself other people's money, you will continue to do so until the end of time.
00:13:19.000Now, again, That doesn't mean that the children and grandchildren of some of these people might end up off of welfare.
00:13:26.000But if you create incentive structures, human beings take advantage of those incentive structures.
00:13:31.000Well, the Trump administration announced that they were going to start strictly applying the public charge rule.
00:13:37.000That if you come here and then you're dependent on welfare benefits, out you go.
00:13:41.000The Democrats have gotten very upset about this.
00:13:43.000According to CBS News, New York City Mayor Zorn Manzani joined several mayors across the country in a joint lawsuit on Monday.
00:13:51.000The suit challenges the federal government's new public charge rule, which is set to take effect on Friday.
00:13:55.000The rule gives immigration agents leeway to deny green cards or visas to lawful immigrants on the basis of being a public charge, meaning someone using programs like Medicaid or food assistance.
00:14:06.000What we are seeing at the moment is people are fearful at the moment to enroll in any benefits because it may put them at risk to be able to adjust immigration status for the future, said Arlene Cruz Escobar of Make the Road New York.
00:14:16.000Advocates said mixed status families may also be hesitant to use benefits they may legally qualify for.
00:14:40.000According to the city, if a new rule goes into effect, up to 4 million people nationwide could unenroll from healthcare plans, including 1.8 million children.
00:14:48.000And then they're suggesting, of course, this is going to kill the kids.
00:14:52.000That this is an undisguised effort to strip New Yorkers of the services they are entitled to.
00:14:56.000Again, I would just like to point out that entitlement programs are, generally speaking, a massive problem.
00:15:04.000They are the lead drivers of our national debt.
00:15:06.000They bankrupt cities, they bankrupt states, they bankrupt the country.
00:15:10.000The very idea that these programs are titled entitlements as opposed to what they actually are, which is the dole, is a way of changing the mentality people have toward drawing from the state.
00:15:22.000In the movie Cinderella Man, the main character, James J. Braddock, he has to go on welfare.
00:15:59.000Now, again, even if you have that generalized perception, which I think is awful, I think it's awful.
00:16:03.000I don't care who you are in the United States.
00:16:05.000If you're taking advantage of the entitlement programs to not work, and honestly, I don't care who you are doing this.1.00
00:16:12.000I don't care whether you are a person living in the inner city who's doing this, whether you're a Haredi doing this, whether you're like, I don't care.0.99
00:16:19.000If you are avoiding the realities of working in America in order to make yourself dependent on the government, you're doing something morally wrong.1.00
00:16:27.000It's even worse when we're importing vast numbers of people to do this.
00:16:31.000It's even worse when you're doing this.
00:17:40.000If you're a business owner, would you consider a larger donation to claim a write off?
00:17:43.000A donation of a grand, 2,000 bucks, 10 grand, 15 grand that sponsors an ultrasound machine for a needy clinic, helping save countless babies' lives for years to come.
00:17:51.000Gifts are tax deductible and will reach eternity.
00:17:54.000I'm not going to sit here and tell you I know what gold is going to cost six months from now, but I do start to pay attention when the largest financial institutions on planet Earth start putting numbers on paper.
00:18:02.000JP Morgan has told its clients that gold could reach 6,000 bucks an ounce by Q4.
00:19:16.000Not only does it sweep aside more than a century of established law, it is intentionally vague as a means of creating uncertainty and fear to isolate immigrant New Yorkers, to force them to make an impossible choice between meeting their own basic needs and continuing to live in the city that they love.
00:19:36.000Make no mistake, this is an undisguised effort to strip New Yorkers of the services they rely on, the public benefits they are entitled to.0.78
00:19:45.000They are entitled to it, stripping them.
00:19:50.000Why are you more worried about the people who are coming here and want to become citizens and are already on the dole than the people who are paying for them?
00:19:59.000Zarnamdani is an eat the rich guy.0.71
00:20:03.000There is nothing he wants better than to just seize wealth from certain people and give it to people who vote for him to seize more wealth.
00:20:09.000And of course, we get the usual routine people will die.1.00
00:20:12.000Okay, the most stupid form of politics is people will die.1.00
00:20:18.000It's the dumbest form of politics.1.00
00:20:19.000Unless you can show an actual correlation between the policy change that is being made and the malicious death of people, this is the dumbest argument possible.1.00
00:20:31.000Has risks and benefits, all of them.1.00
00:20:33.000Going all the way to people could die is so stupid.1.00
00:20:36.000It's not just stupid, it's malicious.1.00
00:20:38.000Because the idea then is if I'm saying that we should not import vast numbers of people here to be dependent on the American taxpayer, because that is a seizure of American wealth on behalf of people who are foreigners, you should not do that.1.00
00:20:53.000He is saying that you maliciously want those people to die.
00:20:56.000It's just gross politics and it's untrue, by the way.
00:20:59.000The toll of this new rule cannot be overstated.
00:21:03.000It is estimated that up to 4 million people from across the country could unenroll from their health care alone, including 1.8 million children.
00:21:17.000As a result of these changes, the rate of premature mortality in immigrant communities in New York City could increase by up to 10.6% within just the next five years.
00:21:48.000If you're paying taxes, he wants to put more of a burden on your back.
00:21:51.000And again, he's pulling these numbers directly out of thin air.
00:21:54.000This idea that if people don't have Medicaid because they're immigrants and therefore they shouldn't have Medicaid until they actually become citizens and demonstrate that they.
00:22:04.000Aren't just going to be a public charge that this is going to result in vast death.
00:22:08.000The data are not only not clear on that, they are non existent on that.
00:22:12.000They're very, very unclear data on whether Medicaid itself even prolongs life.
00:22:17.000Because again, people still have emergency care.
00:22:19.000There are people who are finding care in other ways.
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00:23:19.000Every significant movement in history has started with protesting.0.99