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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2721478" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/16/immigrants-canceling-food-stamps-fears-being-deported/" target="_blank">Immigrants Canceling Their Food Stamps over Fears of Being Deported</a>Food banks and hunger advocates around the country from Tuscon to Baltimore have noticed a decline in the number of eligible immigrants applying for food stamps and a rise in the number of immigrants seeking to cancel their food stamps since President Trump’s inauguration two months ago, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/16/immigrants-are-now-canceling-their-food-stamps-for-fear-that-trump-will-deport-them/?utm_term=.413e67069801" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> reported.Advocates on behalf of these immigrants say that their fear stems from the possibility that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would notice their participation in the food stamp program and deny them U.S. citizenship or deport them.“They’re making these decisions based on what they hear in the news or information they’re getting from other people,” Miguelina Diaz, food support connections program manager for Hunger Free America, said. “People started asking questions right after Trump took office.”Diaz said she recently helped two legal resident families from Queens remove themselves from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). One of the women, a mother of two, asked for help erasing her name from a local food pantry, as well.Spanish-language SNAP applications to the Maryland Food Bank have fallen from 20 a month to zero, the Post reports.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2721478, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/16/immigrants-canceling-food-stamps-fears-being-deported/"]Immigrants Canceling Their Food Stamps over Fears of Being Deported[/URL] Food banks and hunger advocates around the country from Tuscon to Baltimore have noticed a decline in the number of eligible immigrants applying for food stamps and a rise in the number of immigrants seeking to cancel their food stamps since President Trump’s inauguration two months ago, the [I][URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/16/immigrants-are-now-canceling-their-food-stamps-for-fear-that-trump-will-deport-them/?utm_term=.413e67069801']Washington Post[/URL][/I] reported. Advocates on behalf of these immigrants say that their fear stems from the possibility that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would notice their participation in the food stamp program and deny them U.S. citizenship or deport them. “They’re making these decisions based on what they hear in the news or information they’re getting from other people,” Miguelina Diaz, food support connections program manager for Hunger Free America, said. “People started asking questions right after Trump took office.” Diaz said she recently helped two legal resident families from Queens remove themselves from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). One of the women, a mother of two, asked for help erasing her name from a local food pantry, as well. Spanish-language SNAP applications to the Maryland Food Bank have fallen from 20 a month to zero, the [I]Post[/I] reports. [/QUOTE]

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