Posted on 12/03/2018 7:53:38 AM PST by sailor76
A majority of “non-citizens,” including those with legal green card rights, are tapping into welfare programs set up to help poor and ailing Americans, a Census Bureau finding that bolsters President Trump’s concern about immigrants costing the nation.
In a new analysis of the latest numbers, from 2014, 63 percent of non-citizens are using a welfare program, and it grows to 70 percent for those here 10 years or more, confirming another concern that once immigrants tap into welfare, they don’t get off it. numbers-welfare-18-f1.jpg
The Center for Immigration Studies said in its report that the numbers give support for Trump’s plan to cut non-citizens off welfare from the “public charge” if they want a green card that allows them to legally work in the United States.
“The Trump administration has proposed new ‘public charge’ rules making it harder for prospective immigrants to qualify for lawful permanent residence -- green cards -- if they use or are likely to use U.S. welfare programs,” said CIS.
“Concern over immigrant welfare use is justified, as households headed by non-citizens use means-tested welfare at high rates. Non-citizens in the data include illegal immigrants, long-term temporary visitors like guest workers, and permanent residents who have not naturalized. While barriers to welfare use exist for these groups, it has not prevented them from making extensive use of the welfare system, often receiving benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children,” added the Washington-based immigration think tank.
The numbers are huge. The report said that there are 4,684,784 million non-citizen households receiving welfare.
And nearly all, 4,370,385, have at least one worker in the house..
In their report, Steven A. Camarota, the director of research, and Karen Zeigler, a demographer at the Center, said that in census data, about half of those are in the United States illegally.
Their key findings in the analysis:
In 2014, 63 percent of households headed by a non-citizen reported that they used at least one welfare program, compared to 35 percent of native-headed households.
Welfare use drops to 58 percent for non-citizen households and 30 percent for native households if cash payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit are not counted as welfare. EITC recipients pay no federal income tax. Like other welfare, the EITC is a means-tested, anti-poverty program, but unlike other programs one has to work to receive it
Compared to native households, non-citizen households have much higher use of food programs (45 percent vs. 21 percent for natives) and Medicaid (50 percent vs. 23 percent for natives).
Including the EITC, 31 percent of non-citizen-headed households receive cash welfare, compared to 19 percent of native households. If the EITC is not included, then cash receipt by non-citizen households is slightly lower than natives (6 percent vs. 8 percent).
While most new legal immigrants (green card holders) are barred from most welfare programs, as are illegal immigrants and temporary visitors, these provisions have only a modest impact on non-citizen household use rates because: 1) most legal immigrants have been in the country long enough to qualify; 2) the bar does not apply to all programs, nor does it always apply to non-citizen children; 3) some states provide welfare to new immigrants on their own; and, most importantly, 4) non-citizens (including illegal immigrants) can receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children who are awarded U.S. citizenship and full welfare eligibility at birth.
Much higher than that. Multiple families live in those households.
The Cloward-Piven ™ strategy at work.
Those who become citizens open businesses that have apartments overhead.....hire illegals or those with false Id’s who also live upstairs. These businesses become a human trafficking port to those who come into the country illegally
and Medicare pays less and less to paying people so they can spread the service to illegals. Same with SS. Giving people who haven’t paid in to other programs or ‘pockets’.
bkmk
WAY MORE THAN THAT!! AKL Illegal CHILDREN get FREE EDUCATION PLUS FOOD, HEALTH, etc....ALL OF THEM!!
Some even needed sponsors.
In the early years shortly after Ellis Island opened (1890) until about 1920, they were a little more lienient about it because there were very few programs for wards of the state and most of them required hard work. For that reason, few would-be wards of the state even bothered to make the trip.
Agreed. That would be very interesting.
Honestly this busts the myths I have held. I thought of all countries at least in the US the immigrants were hard workers not on welfare, like they are in the UK and Germany. 63% is not far off the numbers in the UK or Germany.
This is huge and sort of counter to the “they take the jobs Americans won’t do” argument. Maybe that was at one time true?
I am curious if we are going to get anyone out there disputing this report.
We should set up a pot for all welfare payments, to US Citizens and illegals. When the money is gone there is no more. Then we will see the totality of welfare payments and see if US citizens want more illegals in.
That it is. Milton Friedman said it: you can't have both a welfare state and open borders. Cloward and Piven added, unless you actually do want to break the system.
And how many of them voted in the midterms?
The question should be, how many of them or their anchor babies will be eligible to vote in 2020?
Probably several million.
“They’re not coming here to work and make a better life for themselves.”
How do they qualify for the EITC then?
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