Food Stamps in Four Hours…

Tired from that long walk across the border, evading the Border Patrol?
Dying of hunger?
Out of cash?
You’re in luck then! If you act now, you can learn how to get on the Food Stamp program in just four hours. That’s right—FOUR HOURS!
I wish I were kidding.
A group in Orange County, California, is offering a course that will teach people that very “skill”: getting Food Stamps from the Government in a mere four hours. To make matters worse, a Spanish-language television station has broadcast a news report detailing the class and advertisements promoting it.
The disgusting part is that the advertisements are produced and paid for by the United States Department of Agriculture.

In 2004, Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service and the Mexican Embassy agreed to jointly disseminate brochures and create the public service announcements.

The agreement led Mexican Consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro to tout the food stamp program on Univision’s KMEX Channel 34 six weeks ago. The newscast included the partnership’s phone number. More than 1,200 people called the partnership in the following days, Sanders said.

Then, two weeks ago, the Department of Agriculture began to air a month long series of ads on Spanish-language television in Southern California and three other markets in the U.S.

When Sanders first saw the Spanish-language public service announcements, he asked the government if Orange County callers could be routed to his office. That led to hundreds more inquiries. Callers, which number about 2,000 calls a day nationwide, are only routed to nonprofit organizations in seven California counties. The others are directed to government offices.

That, friends, is the “elephant in the room.” Our Government debates and fights over building a fence along the portion of our country’s border with Mexico, yet they create and pay for a program that helps promote illegal entry into the United States.
I’m all for helping people who need a hand. I’m not for providing incentive for people to come here illegally and then having “anchor children” to keep them here with no reason to ever get off of Food Stamps. Not only does it encourage illegal immigration, but it also expands a welfare and entitlement program that grows unchecked and can never be taken away.
This may be a wonderful program by those receiving its benefit, but it’s a lose/lose scenario for the rest of the nation. 30,000 households in Orange County have taken advantage of this program. How many more people will this program entice across our border? How many more will be come our responsibility?
The United States Government doesn’t care about securing our border and stopping illegal immigration. Both sides pay lip service to it but, at the end of the day, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have done a damned thing to actually accomplish that goal.
William Smith
ConservativeBlogger.com