Link? 100% of Americans that are retired on a pension, and receiving Social Security are the recipient of welfare benefits.
I'm on welfare because I paid into social security for 40 plus years? In addition I invested in various pension plans with my own money. Give me a break!
In fiscal year 1995, about $1.1 billion in
AFDC and Food Stamp benefits were provided to households with an illegal alien parent for the use of his or her citizen child. This amount accounted for about 3 percent of
AFDC and 2 percent of Food Stamp benefit costs. A vast majority of the households receiving these benefits resided in a few states—85 percent of the AFDC
households were in California, New York, Texas, and Arizona; 81 percent of Food Stamp households were in California, Texas, and Arizona.
California households alone accounted for $720 million of the combined AFDC and Food Stamp benefit costs, with such households representing about 10 percent of the state’s
AFDC and Food Stamp caseloads. Although illegal aliens also received SSI and HUD housing assistance for their citizen
children, data to develop estimates for these two programs
were not available.
6 We recently reported that in 1995, undocumented alien mothers received Medicaid benefits for 78,386
births in California and 24,549 births in Texas. These births represented 14 and 8 percent, respectively,
of all births in these states in that year. See Undocumented Aliens: Medicaid-Funded Births in
California and Texas (GAO/HEHS-97-124R, May 30, 1997)
8 Almost all AFDC recipients—97 percent—also received Medicaid. In fiscal year 1994, the average
annual Medicaid expenditure for a child on AFDC was $1,039.
10 We previously reported that for fiscal year 1992 about $479 million annually—or 2 percent of federal,
state, and local AFDC benefits—was provided to the citizen children of illegal aliens. See Benefits for
Illegal Aliens: Some Program Costs Increasing, But Total Costs Unknown (GAO/T-HRD-93-33, Sept. 29,
1993)
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Illegal aliens threaten U.S. medical system
by WorldNetDaily.com, March 13, 2005
Cristobal Silverio emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker.
He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8 – all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" – an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently.
But Flor was born premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, oldest daughter Lourdes married an illegal alien gave birth to a daughter, too. Her name is Esmeralda. And Felipa had yet another child, Cristian.
The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public welfare funding for the family. Flor gets $600 a month for asthma. Healthy Cristian gets $400. While the Silverios earned $18,000 last year picking fruit, they picked up another $12,000 for their two "anchor babies."
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According to her study, 84 California hospitals are closing their doors as a direct result of the rising number of illegal aliens and their non-reimbursed tax on the system.
"Anchor babies," the author writes, "born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income."
In addition, the report says, "many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease."
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Many illegals entering this country have tuberculosis, according to the report.
..."TB's swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60 percent of those infected because of new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. Until recently MDR-TB was endemic to Mexico. This Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least two major anti-tubercular drugs.... Latent disease explodes later....
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ascribed 42 percent of all new TB cases to 'foreign born' people who have up to eight times higher incidences apparently, 66 percent of all TB cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam."
Other health threats from illegals include, according to the report:
* Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis or "kissing bug disease," is transmitted by the reduviid bug, which prefers to bite the lips and face.... The disease also infiltrates America's blood supply... No cure exists....
* Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease... is endemic to northeastern states because illegal aliens and other immigrants brought leprosy from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and Mexico.
* Dengue fever is exceptionally rare in America... Recently, according to the report, there was a virulent outbreak of dengue fever in Webb County, Texas, which borders Mexico....
* Polio was eradicated from America, but now reappears in illegal immigrants as do intestinal parasites, says the report.
* Malaria was obliterated, but now is re-emerging in Texas.
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"U.S. households headed by illegal aliens used $26.3 billion in government services during 2002 but paid only $16 billion in taxes, an annual cost to taxpayers of $10 billion, says a report issued yesterday by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)."
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), California alone pays out 10.5 billion dollars a year for the "education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens."
And according to the Center for Immigration Studies, Welfare payments, including food stamps to Illegal immigrants in Arizona cost us $4,698,000 in 2001.
Not only do immigrants use welfare programs at higher rates than natives, their use of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is also substantially higher than that of natives. With an annual cost of $32 billion, the EITC is the nation s largest means-tested cash assistance program for workers with low incomes. Persons receiving the EITC pay no federal income tax and instead receive cash assistance from the government based on their earnings and family size.
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Figure 14 reports the percentage of households using at least one major welfare program or the Earned Income Tax Credit for households headed by Mexican households based on how long the household head has lived in the country. The figure shows that Mexican households use means-tested programs at double the rate of natives, even when they have lived in the United States for many years.
In 1996, 22 percent of immigrant-headed households used at least one major welfare program, compared to 15 percent of native households. After declining in the late 1990s, welfare use rebounded, with 23 percent of immigrant households using welfare compared to 15 percent of native
households in 2001.
* The persistently high rate of welfare use by immigrant households stems from their heavy reliance on Medicaid, which has actually risen modestly.
* Welfare use remains high over time; immigrants in the country for more than 20 years still use the welfare system at significantly higher rates than natives.
In 2001, almost 80 percent of immigrant households using welfare had at least one person working.
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