You also mentioned that illegals gain access to welfare through their citizen children. How does that work? You mentioned the EITC, but they don't file. Let's say they have a four-year-old citizen child.
Finally, based upon your information, the two problems appear to be (a) ILLEGAL immigration, and (b) the absence of job growth in the economy. Your data only touches on the unemployment cost of illegal immigration. It does not include the economic costs of government services to them, or the social and criminal costs.
First, here is a link to the entire study.
Illegal immigrant households with children primarily use food assistance and Medicaid, making almost no use of cash and housing programs.
You also mentioned that illegals gain access to welfare through their citizen children. How does that work?
They receive these benefits primarily via their American born children who are US citizens at birth thru birthright citizenship. An estimated 300,000 children are born annually to illegal alien parents--about one in ten children born annually in the US. They are called "anchor babies" because it makes it more difficult to deport their illegal alien parents. The children are entitled to Medicaid and food stamps. In the case of food stamps, the illegal parents are issued cards in their names for the child.
You mentioned the EITC, but they don't file. Let's say they have a four-year-old citizen child.
Yes they do file usually using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs). The IRS would issue ITINs to two classes of people not qualified to receive Social Security Numbers: 1) aliens living outside the United States who nonetheless had a U.S. tax liability and 2) aliens living inside the United States who were not authorized to work here but who nonetheless owed U.S. taxes.
Here is an article, IRS Gave $14 Billion in Refundable Tax Credits to Illegals, that goes into some detail on how it works and the money involved. The IRS IG has acknowledged that this is happening, but nothing has been done about it. There have been a number of investigative reports from the MSM substantiating it as well. There are some videos with interviews with the illegal aliens who are claiming credit for their children in Mexico.
Child Tax Credits for Illegal Immigrants
Finally, based upon your information, the two problems appear to be (a) ILLEGAL immigration, and (b) the absence of job growth in the economy. Your data only touches on the unemployment cost of illegal immigration. It does not include the economic costs of government services to them, or the social and criminal costs.
Not doing the jobs Americans won’t do: 70% of illegal aliens in Texas receive welfare
Illegal aliens crossing the border to line up at the welfare office
A new study has found that a remarkable 70% of illegal aliens in Texas are on the dole. Since only 39% of native born Americans are on welfare, it makes one think that the phrase “doing the jobs Americans won’t do” should be changed to “not doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.”
The Houston Chronicle tells the terrible tale of Texas taxes:
Thirteen years after Congress overhauled the American welfare system, 57 percent of immigrants with children — those in the country legally or not — use at least one government, welfare program according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies.P
In comparison, 39 percent of native-born Americans with children are signed up for welfare, the report found.
In Texas, 54 percent of legal immigrants and 70 percent of illegal immigrants receive welfare assistance, with illegal immigrants generally receiving benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children, according to the study, written by a think tank that favors reducing immigration into the U.S.
http://blog.chron.com//txpotomac/2011/04/study-70-of-texas-illegal-immigrant-families-receive-welfare/
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/70-percent-of-illegal-aliens-in-texas-receive-welfare