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Following Trump’s February executive order, the Department of Agriculture last week required states to crack down on illegal immigrants improperly using food stamps (SNAP). Although illegal immigrants are already banned from SNAP benefits, the Administration is forcing states to verify applicants more aggressively — using DHS’s SAVE system, Social Security death file cross-checks, and other federal tools — to root out waste, fraud, and abuse.

Don’t miss the historic nature of this; before Trump, Social Security refused to freely share its death master file, citing privacy for dead people.

I know you are probably wondering, how could there possibly be waste, fraud, or abuse in the food stamp program? As difficult as this is to believe, apparently there’s quite a bit of fraud going on in some places. (Cough, blue states.) Indeed, new Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also announced that arrests for SNAP fraud have already started. “We’ve already made arrests in Minnesota, New York, and Colorado, and we’re just getting started,” Brooke said. “We’re going to be extremely, extremely aggressive,” the Secretary promised.

The Post didn’t mention this, but it seems obvious this SNAP crackdown is part of Trump’s comprehensive immigration agenda, intended to provide another reason for illegals to self-deport. Compared to Mexico and South America, as we all know, life in the United States is expensive. Without thousands of monthly dollars of free grocery and restaurant budget, living off the grid might become unworkable.

All the pieces are designed to work together. And he assembled the machine under withering incoming fire during the first 100 days, while he was doing everything else, too. Give yourself multiple ways to win.

SNAP means food stamps, now delivered through handy dandy debit cards. An eye-watering 42 million people get them every month, and the stamp books will close themselves up at midnight this Friday, which has never happened before. The Department of Agriculture, which administers the wealth-transfer system (but don’t call it that), has said that since the government is shut down, it can’t do anything. Sorry. Everybody must fend for themselves. It’s Mad Max. ...

As the news tumbled out this week, we’ve also learned that millions of them are international squatters, having jumped the border at some point without bothering with the inconvenience of all that paperwork. (Democrats insist this is a vile lie, with the same energy and vigor with which they insist that colored directional arrows on supermarket floors stop pandemics. So.) ...

While Democrats continue to insist there is zero fraud in SNAP and certainly no illegal aliens electronically getting your tax money, we should reflect on how President Trump has been aiming at SNAP for a long time. Back in July, the Administration demanded states turn over Snappers’ immigration status— and blue states refused...

But these tweets and lawsuits were just the latest round. Right before covid started during Trump 1.0, the President had aimed at SNAP but was stymied by a federal judge in a lawsuit also filed by Ms. James, right as she was helping move her criminal relatives into investment properties she claimed as her primary residence...

We do not know whether either of Ms. James’ tenant nieces —the OnlyFans entrepreneur or the wanted fugitive— collect SNAP benefits. But I wouldn’t bet against it. I’m beginning to wonder whether Ms. James has a SNAP EBT card.

Anyway, as you can see, this snappy showdown has been in the works for a long time. ...

But now, social media feeds are filling with a growing awareness that the SNAP food stamp program has become one of the Democrats’ biggest vote-buying scams ever. For instance, people have noticed that Biden basically doubled the program in just four years:




Not only did he balloon eligibility, but Biden also expanded the delicious universe of what kind of wonderful stuff can be purchased under the program, with alert social media investigators discovering Snappers are competing for essentially anything sold in a high-end grocery store:



And, before you scoff and say well at least its healthier than Ho-Ho’s, SNAP also allows healthy items that most of us would never ever buy, like Caspian Sea caviar at $80 an ounce:




Furious Congressional Democrats rounded up some hungry white Snappers to testify this week about how they’ll starve to death without their benefits. Using exclusively white ones avoided the inconvenience of having to hire translators for all the non-citizen recipients.




Other commenters, noticing the remarkable simultaneous rise in both illegal immigrants and SNAP recipients under Biden, put two and two together and concluded that if the program gets pruned, millions of illegals may voluntarily self-deport. Hopefully. There is also quite a bit of discussion on the forums about the apparently very healthy market for re-selling EBT cards to rich people at a discount for cash, since apparently anyone in possession can use the damned things.

In any case, and I hope I made my point, the public is talking about the SNAP problem in a way that was never previously possible. Thanks, Democrats!