Trump DHS investigates L.A. County for providing federal benefits to unauthorized immigrants

The Trump medication announced Monday that it has launched an probe into California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, a authorities programme that provides monthly currency benefits to aged, blind, and disabled non-citizens who are ineligible for Social Security benefits owed to their migration status.

The probe began successful Los Angeles, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles tract bureau issuing a Title 8 subpoena to California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security said successful a quality release.

According to the department, the subpoena requests each records from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, the bureau that administers the authorities program, to find if ineligible immigrants received supplemental information income from the Social Security Administration implicit the past 4 years.

“Radical near politicians successful California prioritize amerciable aliens implicit our ain citizens, including by giving amerciable aliens entree to currency benefits,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said successful a statement.

“The Trump Administration is moving unneurotic to place maltreatment and exploitation of nationalist benefits and marque definite those successful this state illegally are not receiving national benefits oregon different fiscal incentives to enactment illegally,” Noem added. “If you are an amerciable immigrant, you should permission now. The gravy bid is over. While this subpoena focuses lone connected Los Angeles County — it is conscionable the beginning.”

According to Homeland Security, its Los Angeles investigations tract bureau is subpoenaing records including applicants’ sanction and day of birth, copies of applications, migration status, impervious of ineligibility for benefits from the Social Security Administration and affidavits that supported the application.

The probe comes aft President Trump signed a presidential memorandum connected April 15 to halt immigrants lacking documentation from obtaining Social Security Act benefits successful what helium called a bid to halt incentivizing amerciable migration and support payer dollars.

The memorandum directed the caput of Homeland Security to guarantee unauthorized immigrants bash not person funds from Social Security programs and prioritized civilian oregon transgression enforcement against states oregon localities for imaginable violations of Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

It besides expanded the Social Security Administration’s fraud authoritative programme to astatine slightest 50 U.S. lawyer ofices and established a Medicare and Medicaid fraud-prosecution programme successful 15 U.S. lawyer offices.

This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated.