“Customers pay cash for the barrels, usually about $40, and typically ship them filled with $500 to $2,000 worth of rice, beans, pasta, canned milk and sausages.”
Is this a good enough reason as to why we must get “our house in order” first before opening the gates to 11 million (30 million) illegal aliens?
This is our money welfare recipients are using to buy food to ship to relatives in the Caribbean. By the way where are they getting the money to pay for the shipping of barrels/ containers? I mean if they are on govt assistance where are they finding the extra $70 to ship a barrel loaded with food back to the Caribbean!?
This is just a snapshot of what is already going on by welfare recipients, we have heard the stories of how illegals in America send money back to the home countries, what do you think is going to happen when Congress gives amnesty to 11 million? The US is broke we cannot keep subsidizing the rest of the world!
What section of Rubiocare does it say those allowed into the US are banned from welfare programs? Where does it say they won’t suck the US’s food aid programs dry shipping half of what they receive back to their home countries? What page is that on where is that addressed?
We need to lock the borders down and address entitlement programs before the flood gates are opened millions who never paid into the system. Seriously imagine what 11 million will do to this nation, knowing they already are doing this kind of stuff!
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NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti
By Kate Briquelet & Isabel Vincent | NY Post
Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.
The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.
The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans.
A spokeswoman for the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service said welfare benefits are reserved for households that buy and prepare food together. She said states should intervene if people are caught shipping nonperishables abroad.
Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, called it just another example of welfare abuse.
“I don’t want food-stamp police to see what people do with their rice and beans, but it’s wrong,†Tanner told The Post. “The purpose of this program is to help Americans who don’t have enough to eat. This is not intended as a form of foreign aid.â€
The United States spent $522.7 million on foreign aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year, government data show…more