Under prior presidents, including Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, immigrants in the United States have been allowed to freely apply for green cards via the “Adjustment of Status” process regardless of their immigration status.

This “AoS” process is amnesty because it gives "green cards" to roughly 550,000 people each year, including many illegals and people who overstay their legal visas.

Illegals also use the AoS process to get temporary work permits. In 2018, for example, 257,376 work permits were handed out to a variety of people who applied for AoS.

One of the few curbs on AoS amnesty is a requirement that applicants find a sponsor who will repay the taxpayers for any aid and welfare consumed by the AoS applicant.

Officials rarely required the sponsors to repay taxpayers when the immigrants do not earn enough to stay off welfare.

But officials will now enforce the sponsorship rule, says Ken Cuccinelli, the new head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

If the sponsored immigrant receives any federal means-tested public benefits, the sponsor will be expected to reimburse the benefits-granting agency for every dollar of benefits received by the immigrant.

Over the next several months, federal agencies will develop and implement guidance on the presidential memorandum to make sure that agencies enforce these requirements.


https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/06/17/donald-trump-revives-no-welfare-rule-green-cards-process/