Then you haven't been paying enough attention. For a good while legal immigrants come here and get plopped on SSI and all its attendant goodies. Currently the UN decides who comes in as a legal refugee. And low wage immigrants are subsidized by taxpayers to the amount of $20,000 per household.You are casting a very wide brush lumping all legal immigrants in with those in a program you mention. Most legal immigrants do not get government assistance or come here with their last dime in the pocket.
I have direct first hand experience on this subject. The requirements for legal immigration are costly, time consuming AND require the ability to show financial wherewithal. Legal immigrants are not allowed to collect social security until they have worked for 10 years.
Most legal immigrants come to this country, work hard (as in bust their butts to get ahead) and pay lots (and lots) of taxes.
You may have a particular problem with one immigration program but it is very unfair of you to cast all legal immigrants into that group. It is also uninformed. I certainly welcome you to correct me where I am wrong and I would expecially like to learn more about the programs you talk about that provide cash assistance to legal immigrants. My guess is that is for people claiming refugee status but again it is good discussion to have and I sincerely would like to have those details.
Unfortunately our immigration policies are not designed for the benefit of the US. They are designed to import cheap labor and turn the US into the H.R. and welfare departments for the world.
Political correctness over rides any limitations on legal immigrants collecting goodies.
To start here's a
study from FairUS of the cost per low wage immigrant household.
Here's chart A6 from a
study by Heritage.
4,550,000 [households] x $19,588 [net deficit per household] = $ 89,125,400,000 in 2004.
An article by Ed Rubenstein:
Immigrants Causing One Fifth Of Federal Deficit
Some stats from a study by CIS:
The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, compared to 19 percent for native households.
The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children.
We currently bring
125,000 new legal workers (green cards and guest workers)into the US each month. Many of these legal immigrants come in as the result of Free Trade agreements that over ride our immigration policies and ignore the current employment situation.
