I guess to paraphrase the words of Gertrude Stein: A sponsor is a sponsor is a sponsor. If you do not want to take care of someone when you bring them to the United States. do not sponsor them. If you bring them in as an immigrant. you have to. That is why people have misused the refugee programs. If you come here as a refugee. the Government takes care of all of it. So we have people coming here as refugees who do not qualify in any way as refugees. We have presumptive refugees in certain areas of the world who wait 1/2 years to come here after they have been designated as a presumptive refugee. You talk about gimmickry of the system. I have been at this game for 16 years. and there is plenty of it. And this amendment would cost $623 million over 7 years. I want to say. too. that the students who the Senator has expressed concern for are sponsored immigrants who have been in the United States for less than 5 years. They are persons now seeking public assistance for college education who have a sponsor who promised. in order to get that immigrant admitted. to provide whatever assistance the immigrant might require in order to avoid becoming a public charge. That is where we are. It is not pleasant in any way to continually year after year stand here and try to present the issues as they really are without being described as mean spirited. pinched. riven. uncaring. That is not what we are talking about. We are talking about often people with a grand design of how to gimmick the systems. And if you really are watching. keeping your eye on the rabbit. this is not in any way helpful to the welfare system or to the immigration laws of the United States.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that people are misusing the refugee program to get government assistance.