Loophole Giving Welfare to Immigrants Shut Down
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
A Clinton-era action that allowed many noncitizens to get welfare in the United States has been brought to an end. The system worked through a loophole going back to the 1990s, and this has now been officially changed.
We’ll discuss this topic and others in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | Immigrants have been allowed to receive welfare right here in the United States through a loophole. |
| 0:06.0 | And now the Justice Department has shut this down. |
| 0:08.0 | Meanwhile, the U.S. military has dropped a policy that used to restrict chaplains from invoking God by name. |
| 0:14.0 | And meanwhile, new information is still coming out on problems with the elections in 2020. |
| 0:20.0 | It turns out that in Fulton County, at least, |
| 0:22.9 | there have been some very serious issues and it now has been revealed there were 315,000 problematic |
| 0:28.7 | votes in the place where Biden won the election by just 11,779 votes. I'll be talking about |
| 0:34.9 | these topics and a lot more today. I'm the Epitimes Senior |
| 0:38.1 | Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:47.9 | A Clinton-era action allowed immigrants to get welfare very easily in the United States. And this is not even |
| 0:55.5 | just illegal immigrants. It is legal immigrants. That policy or the loophole, you could say, is now |
| 1:01.0 | been closed. And the system, what it did, it worked through a loophole going back again to 1996, |
| 1:07.7 | and this has now been officially changed. Let me show the Justice Department. It says this. |
| 1:12.6 | In 1996, Congress enacted bipartisan legislation, Republicans and Democrats did it to overhaul the national welfare system. |
| 1:23.6 | It talks about the actual personnel, responsibility, and work opportunity, Reconciliation Act of 1996, |
| 1:30.3 | and it says that, among other things, Title IV of this, significantly reformed eligibility requirements for aliens, legal and illegal, |
| 1:39.3 | seeking access to welfare benefits by, quote, denying illegal aliens benefits for public services or welfare. |
| 1:47.1 | And I'll say just five months later, however, this office told the Department of Health and Human Services, |
| 1:52.3 | HHS and Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD, that it would be permissible to interpret this organization, |
| 2:00.6 | or this enacts phrase of, quote, |
| 2:03.0 | federal means tested public benefit as affecting only benefits administered under mandatory and not discretionary welfare spending programs. |
| 2:14.3 | A good old loophole in other words. |
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