A week ago, the New York Post reported that local immigrants were packing up chow purchased with food stamps and shipping off the free-to-them food to their homelands.

Further investigation by the paper has now found that selling those giant containers of food is a thriving business for diverse immigrants. The photo shows a man in the Dominican city of Santiago with a barrel of welfare edibles that will be sold on the black market, on the back of the unwilling American taxpayer.

The Post’s earlier article remarked that welfare food was never meant to be aid abroad, and noted the United States spent $522.7 million on foreign aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year. Now we learn that tax money spent to prevent hunger is being pissed away in a double fraud.

But immigrants practicing the fraud think it’s a fine way to make some extra cash: “It’s a really easy way to make money, and it doesn’t cost me anything,” a seller named Maria-Teresa said Friday.

Oh sure — stealing from Americans is fine; they have too much money anyway. That’s the immigrant attitude.

The Post had an appropriate graphic:

FYI: the number of non-citizens receiving food stamps has quadrupled since 2001.