quote here：First of all, the program was actually started by George W. Bush in 2004, not Obama. Here’s then-Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announcing the new program in July of 2004:
Many Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals working within the United States have limited awareness of eligibility for Food Stamps and other nutrition programs such as Women, Infants and Children program and school meals. Additional barriers such as the language heightens the need for specialized outreach. The objectives under this agreement include new partnerships, communications outreach in both English and Spanish, and other activities to educate eligible populations.
Secondly, the program doesn’t actually provide food stamps to immigrants — that too was a product of a Bush-era Farm Bill — but merely information. And it does this not in Mexico, as some claim, but at the country’s 45 consulates across the U.S., which Veneman called “an ideal network to help with outreach for USDA nutrition programs.”
I understand that the usual country pumpkin republicans don't get high speed train because they never step outside U.S., or their population sparse state. Most oversea Chinese have some experience with high population density and high speed train in China, Europe, and Japan. Still don't get it, or got brainwashed?!
@Zhang Jian That's true. Bush had a plan to work with Mexico in the beginning of his presidency. You can read Rice's book "No higher honor " for more about his foreign policies, but that doesn't mean D don't want to buy hispanic voters.
Third, you can’t even qualify for food stamps as a non-citizen until you’ve been in the country legally for five years. “Undocumented workers are in no way eligible,” Melissa Boteach, who studies poverty at the Center for American Progress, told Salon.
