It is not a meme. They may work, and work hard but.......most are undereducated and make crap pay....so they qualify for benefits. Also they have so many kids that with their pay they qualify for benefits. A family of 6 with one person working at a small wage gets a lot of benefits.
Anchor baby gets the benefits, the parents just count as bodies for qualification for higher benefits (which I know is very much the same thing as them getting benefits directly.) Considering how hard liberals go out of their way to recruit illegals into the system, seems like that's the problem here. When Reagan offered amnesty, less than half even bothered to file the first round of paperwork, much less complete the process.