The number has varied considerably over my career, which included construction in California.
Of all demographic groups, those of Mexican heritage who are eligible for welfare have the highest rate of not taking the welfare to which they are eligible, much higher than “whites”.
Bald assertions don't fly at FreeRepublic. Citations please.
Re your experience in Illinois, that is manifestly not representative. Hispanics vote 60-70% Democrat nationwide.
See? That's how it's done here.
citation? Is anti-illegal CIS or PEW that they quote or other reliable? Consider this: The pro-welfare left is constantly expressing their frustration that those of Mexican heritage are “underserved” and so hard to “reach” with outreach programs. The leftist navigators/outreach workers/community organizers are funded to sign-up the “underserved”. Those workers, even those of Hispanic origin would much rather be assigned to White or Black areas and not Hispanic areas because the Hispanic areas are so frustrating.
In IL and GA (and I hear in TX also) there are high percentages of child citizens of Mexican heritage eligible for Kidcare/Peachcare or whatever the current name for CHIPS. One of the reasons for the left creating SCHIPS was that they had so much left over money in the CHIPS budget because nobody was signing up.
I’ve been in Catholic churchs where the leftist clergy preaches from the pulpit in Spanish that they are not good parents unless they sign up their kids for kidcare. The leftist Catholic Sisters and deacons are at all exits from the mass not letting any of the 800 at mass leave until they signup. And those attendees at mass find ways to distract the Sisters and sneak out after mass without signing up their kids. And I stay back and hear the Sisters and deacons and clergy frustrated that they can’t sign anyone up. The Chicago archdiocese has contracts that state they will will be paid millions of tax money if signup kids for kidcare. And their rate is signing up about 10 kids per million dollars. But at least that is better than Operation Push which in the past has signed up zero kids for millions of dollars they received.
Watch the DVD FOR GREATER GLORY movie with Andy Garcia and Eva Longoria if you want to understand the people. The movie has 3 main characters, Andy Garcia the general, the kid who becomes a saint, and a rancher named Catorce. Most Mexican immigrants to IL and GA are Catorce wannabes. None of them I’ve met want to be a martyr and become a saint. the Andy Garcia libertarian types are rare. But the proud Catorce types are many.