Welfare Benefits: Crime Data and Status Program

welfare benefits: Such immigrants aren't eligible for welfare benefits, according to Metro News. Roughly 50,000 Haitians have been allowed to live in the U.S. under the program in the aftermath of a 2010 earthquake, and the questions about misdeeds among them comes at a critical moment. Internal emails obtained by The Associated Press show a top immigration official wanted not only crime data on Haitians who are protected from deportation under the Temporary Protected Status program, but also how many were receiving public benefits. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly must decide soon whether to continue protecting the group from deportation. But emails suggest Kelly is looking at other criteria as well. Normally the decision depends on whether conditions in the immigrants' home country have improved. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.