Increasingly, she’s being asked to explain how food stamps may impact immigration status, if not to outright cancel family food benefits. The evidence is still anecdotal — and The Washington Post was unable to speak directly with immigrants who chose to cancel their SNAP benefits. But there’s no doubt that the president’s priorities on immigration and public benefits differ sharply from those of his predecessor. Some conservative pundits and lawmakers believe that immigrants — legal and undocumented — have too much access to public benefits. In 1996, after the Clinton administration established the five-year waiting period for legal immigrants to receive public benefits, utilization of those benefits fell off sharply.

Source: Washington Post March 16, 2017 14:34 UTC