Maybe that's true of the ones who go to California. The ones I've seen in Texas came to work, and they do. They roof the houses, they build those houses too, they do the yardwork, they clean the toilets, they do the dishes in even the nicest restaurants. Do some of them get suckered in by the welfare state? Sure just like the anglos and blacks and even Asians and Russians. But any who come to Texas for the welfare benefits get an ugly suprise. Thats not to say that many of them don't avail themselves of certain programs, but those programs, health care for instance, aren't much, if any, better than what they could get in socialist Mexico.
They work in California too, by working for less money, taking jobs away from American workers in the roofing and construction industries, the gardeners, the truck drivers, nannies, the restaurant industry, the warehousers, the tile guys, the cement guys, the body shop businesses, etc., all the way down to fast food jobs.
They work much of the time for cash, pay few taxes, and their girlfriends and wives collect welfare and aid to dependent children while they're claiming to be single mothers. California taxpayers are being scammed to the max. They get free medical care, free schooling, assisted housing, food stamps, everything.
California is the king of welfare giveouts, and the false document business thrives, enabling the illegal aliens to get the whole enchilada for free, while young American couples struggle to pay their bills and their taxes, and their share of the billions of dollars illegal aliens cost California.
If anyone can explain to me how this is fair to America, that person gets a cigar (American made).