They are also being encouraged to do so by the Mexican Government.
Now before I begin to report this, I must be clear on something: THIS WAS HAPPENING ALSO IN THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.
The Story via WND and Judicial Watch:
The U.S. government has been caught promoting the delivery of taxpayer-funded welfare benefits to foreigners, and Judicial Watch’s conclusion is that the Obama administration “cannot be trusted to protect our borders.”
Judicial Watch, the Washington watchdog which is known for tracking down and trying to stamp out government corruption, has issued a report revealing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with the Mexican government to promote the U.S. food stamp program to illegal aliens.
The report said the program, called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, features a Spanish-language flyer supplied to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA “with a statement advising Mexicans in the U.S. that they do not need to declare their immigration status in order to receive financial assistance.”
Just so they don’t miss the idea, the message is in bold and underlined on the brochure: “You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.”
“The revelation that the USDA is actively working with the Mexican government to promote food stamps for illegal aliens should have a direct impact on the fact of the immigration bill now being debated in Congress,” said Tom Fitton, the president of the organization.
“These disclosures further confirm the fact that the Obama administration cannot be trusted to protect our borders or enforce our immigration laws. And the coordination with a foreign government to attack the policies of an American state is contemptible,” he said.
Last year, Judicial Watch reported that Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., wrote to USDA chief Tom Vilsack asking questions about the Obama’s administration partnership with Mexican officials to hand out taxpayer-paid benefits to those illegally in the U.S.
At the time, Sessions wrote, “It defies rational thinking for the United States – now dangerously $16 trillion in debt – to partner with foreign governments to help us place more foreign nationals on American welfare and it is contrary to good immigration policy.”
Now Judicial Watch has released documents it obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act request made to USDA on July 20, 2012. The FOIA request sought: “Any and all records of communication relating to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to Mexican Americans, Mexican nationals, and migrant communities, including but not limited to, communications with the Mexican government.”
Judicial Watch puts a finer point on it:
The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch in August 2012, include the following:
- March 30, 2012 – The USDA seeks approval of the Mexican Embassy in drafting a letter addressed to consulates throughout the United States designed to encourage Mexican embassy staffers to enroll in a webinar learn how to promote increased enrollment among “the needy families that the consulates serve.”
- August 1, 2011 – The USDA FNS initiates contact with the Mexican Embassy in New York to implement programs already underway in DC and Philadelphia for maximizing participation among Mexican citizens. The Mexican Embassy responds that the Consul General is eager to strengthen his ties to the USDA, with specific interest in promoting the food stamp program.
- February 25, 2011 – The USDA and the Mexican Consulate exchange ideas about getting the First Ladies of Mexico and United States to visit a school for purposes of creating a photo opportunity that would promote free school lunches for low-income students in a predominantly Hispanic school. Though a notation in the margin of the email claims that the photo op never took place, UPI reported that it actually did.
- March 3, 2010 – A flyer advertises a webinar to teach Hispanic-focused nonprofits how to get reimbursed by the USDA for serving free lunch over the summer. The course, funded by American taxpayers, is advertised as being “free for all participants.”
- February 9 , 2010 – USDA informs the Mexican Embassy that, based on an agreement reached between the State Department and the Immigration & Naturalization Service (now ICE), the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) food voucher program does not violate immigration laws prohibiting immigrants from becoming a “public charge.”
Now, as I wrote before, this was happening under Bush’s White House too, here is the proof from Judicial Watch:
As far back as 2006, in its Corruption Chronicles blog, Judicial Watch revealed that the USDA was spending taxpayer money to run Spanish-language television ads encouraging illegal immigrants to apply for government-financed food stamps. The Mexican Consul in Santa Ana, CA, at the time even starred in some of the U.S. Government-financed television commercials, which explained the program and provided a phone number to apply. In the widely viewed commercial the Consul assured that receiving food stamps “won’t affect your immigration status.”
The reason why I point this out, is because sometimes, the point that much of the corruption and stuff like this here; was already in place, before President Obama was in the White House. The partisans on the right sometimes forget to mention that. Illegal immigration was just as bad of a problem, when Bush was President, as it now that Obama is President. Some people contend that it is gotten worse since Obama took office. I very much highly doubt that, to be quite honest. Actually, Obama has been cracking down on illegal immigration, there are exceptions, like there are in anything else; but for the most part that is the case.
The point of all of this, is the following: This is your hard-earned tax dollars being used to fund Welfare benefits for people who are not even citizens of this Country. It is already sickening enough that legal immigrants are being given this sort of a thing, without having to live here for any reasonable amount of time; like 10 years or more. But, you now having people, living here illegally and they are getting them too? Sorry, but that is just outrageous! 
Hopefully, we will elect a President in 2016, and maybe Congressmen and Senators in 2014, that will put a stop to this practice.
If that had been a tank something dealing with gasoline; it would have been much worse. 
Anyhow, something caused a spark and hence the fire.
There are two things that usually never get by me and that are noises and smells. 
If anything out of the ordinary happens, I usually know about it. Now, keep in mind; I am a little to the south of that location. In fact, we used to pass that refinery every Friday, when my parents and my grandmother would go grocery shopping in Lincoln Park, back years ago, when I was a kid living in Detroit. I remember driving by there, and there were times; when that place reeked with odor! 
Maybe a little crazy… 
But, happy nonetheless! 
