President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night prohibiting illegal immigrants from receiving federally funded benefits.
“My administration supports the rule of law, prevents waste of resources for hard-earned taxpayers and protects the interests of US citizens in need, including disabled and veterans,” Trump's order. Please read the text.
The President noted that the Personal Liability and Labor Opportunity Settlement Act of 1996 (PRWORA) superficially prohibits illegal immigrants from obtaining benefits funded by most taxpayers. , he claimed that for decades since its passage, “many administrations acted to undermine principles and restrictions. Oversight of Congress.”
Trump argued that the Biden administration will “repetitively lower its legislation targets, resulting in inappropriate spending of key taxpayer resources.”
As a result, according to the president, “taxpayer resources” acted as “magnets” for immigrants and “fueled by illegal immigrants.”
Trump's order told the heads of all federal agencies that “identifies all federal funding programs currently governed by agencies that allow illegal foreigners to obtain cash or non-cash public interest.” and other federal laws that direct such programs to “take all appropriate measures to take all appropriate measures.”
The commander further stated that “consistent with applicable law, federal payments to states and regions, by design or effect, do not promote the subsidies or promotion of illegal immigration, or the so-called “sanctuary” policies. I ordered it to guarantee it. It seeks to protect illegal aliens from deportation. ”
Trump's executive order also called on federal agencies to “maximise their eligibility verification systems” to exclude illegal immigrants from taxpayer-funded benefits.
The president has appointed the Bureau of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk, to identify “all other federal sources of funding for illegal aliens,” and to “contact federal spending for the purposes of this order.” Additional agency actions to coordinate were recommended.
The order requires agencies to refer fraudulent immigrants to the Department of Justice and Homeland Security for “appropriate action.”
The move is part of the administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, one of Trump's major campaign promises.
The president praised Musk and Kuji for helping to implement some of his executive orders that the bureaucratic team claimed to have been ignored by unenforced federal workers.
