A fair trade would be to grant partial amnesty to the illegal aliens already here (they can stay, but without welfare benefits), stop the flow of new ones and open the door wide to high-tech H1B visa holders.
But after three months, Ms. Graham's welfare checks stopped coming.
Nor will the animal welfare movement stop at chimpanzees, as all parties are aware.
They say Labour is the best party in all policy areas except "reforming welfare to stop scroungers and cut benefit dependency", an issue on which they put the Conservatives 10 points ahead – compared with a 30-point lead for Labour among the sample as a whole.
The news comes as the right-of-centre think tank, Policy Exchange, says about 68,000 benefit claimants are having their welfare payments stopped "unfairly" each year, which is increasing demand for food banks.
Despite being unable to work due to the severity of his condition, welfare payments stopped for six weeks in November 2012 because he failed to attend a medical appointment.
"The role of the state or government," he said, "is surely to provide people with some security in their lives, to provide them with a decent health service free at the point of use, to provide them with a welfare state that stops people falling into destitution.
There's barely a cutaway, unfortunately, of the remarkable Jenny Munro, the face of the recent Redfern protests, in which she declares: "Recognise will not stop police killing us in jail cells, will not stop welfare authorities taking our children".
The welfare checks soon stopped.
