The land of opportunity – and handouts? You have to wonder, and wonder what the Obama Administration is doing promoting welfare to immigrants who presumably came to this country for its greater opportunities, not government dependency programs.

The Department of Homeland Security’s main immigration page includes details on government benefit programs that they can enroll in. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is shining a light on the problem, and Homeland Security’s hypocrisy.

As Sessions told the Daily Caller:

“Some of these programs are clearly not available for immigrants,” Sessions told TheDC, “and it just creates confusion out there and suggests that if you can get into America, you can leave and get onto these programs, and from what we are seeing, many of these people are successful in getting on benefit programs that they are not lawfully entitled to.”

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According to Sessions, it is inappropriate to promote government benefits to new immigrants who should be able to be self-sufficient when they arrive. “Historically, the nation has understood that people who come to the country should not be dependent on the state,” he said. “And if you could not show that you were going to be independent, then you didn’t get admitted.”

Question: Is government promotion of these welfare benefits mean it is promoting a welfare lifestyle?