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More Than Half of Immigrants on Public Assistance
Western Free Press ^ | September 1 2015 | Steven Hayward

Posted on 09/02/2015 6:01:58 AM PDT by george76

51 percent of immigrant households—both legal and illegal—receive some kind of public assistance, versus just 30 percent of native households. Whether immigrants contribute more to total economic activity or public revenues greater than they receive in benefits is not addressed in this report, and remains a subject of fierce controversy.

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This study is the first in recent years to examine immigrant (legal and illegal) and native welfare use using the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). While its complexity makes it difficult to use, the survey is widely regarded as providing the most accurate picture of welfare participation. The SIPP shows immigrant households use welfare at significantly higher rates than native households, even higher than indicated by other Census surveys.

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As Milton Friedman used to say, you can have a generous welfare state, or you can have high rates of unskilled immigration, but you can’t have both for very long.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernfreepress.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Florida; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; illegal; illegalaliens; illegals; immigrants; immigration; publicassistance; welfare
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To: george76

Note: More than 80% of immigrants vote democrat!

Immigration must be NUMBER ONE issue for conservatives. The immigrants will keep voting for more welfare, more abortions, more gay marriages, more government spending.

Pray America is waking.
Vote Trump/Cruz 2016!


21 posted on 09/02/2015 1:46:07 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only candidate without rich donors.)
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To: george76

¡Obameconomía™!


22 posted on 09/02/2015 1:49:57 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: pocat
Note: More than 80% of immigrants vote democrat! Immigration must be NUMBER ONE issue for conservatives. The immigrants will keep voting for more welfare, more abortions, more gay marriages, more government spending.

Take note of this! It's the truth !!

23 posted on 09/02/2015 1:52:14 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: danamco

My step-sister sponsored her mother for green card, and immediately signed her up for social security! Her mother was over 65, so she was eligible to receive supplemental social security monthly checks even though she never worked in US and did not contribute one red cent in taxes. It did not matter that my brother-in-law is a wealthy medical doctor in CA. On top of that mother’s medical expenses were paid by Medi-Cal. US taxpayers are the suckers, because they keep electing fiscally liberal politicians.


24 posted on 09/02/2015 1:53:30 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only candidate without rich donors.)
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To: george76
How is it that illegal immigrants are on welfare?

What is so hard to understand about this issue?

We are supposed to take in unknown numbers of mostly illiterate, non-english speaking desperate people, give them welfare, medical care, school their untold numbers of children, and let them vote in our elections for the Communist Democrats promising to give them even more of American's money?

The illegals here are desperate- willing to work for any wages, live in any conditions- So they ends up bringing down everyone's wages and living standards.

The greedy corporations get richer on the backs of the taxpayers and middle class- who must pay to support their (corporate) "cheap labor", while the taxpayers have to contend with having less resources for their own children.

And these same children have fewer opportunities because of all these untold numbers of people clogging up the system and taking up all the benefits meant for Americans and those here legally.

This cannot end well. (And this is without even accounting for all the crime being committed by persons who should not be here in the first place.)

What do they not "get" about illegal immigration?

There is NO country that puts up with people running across its borders unaccounted for (including Mexico). Or that gives illegal immigrants the resources meant for its own people. That is insanity.

25 posted on 09/02/2015 3:10:48 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: entropy12

How much SS could she cash in om???


26 posted on 09/02/2015 3:27:29 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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27 posted on 09/02/2015 3:33:18 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: danamco

Around $900 per month for life!


28 posted on 09/02/2015 4:17:20 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only candidate without rich donors.)
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To: danamco

And...there are literally hundred thousand such seniors admitted as LEGAL immigrants, each year.


29 posted on 09/02/2015 4:20:15 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only candidate without rich donors.)
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To: entropy12

Wonder how’s done. After 32 years here only getting $316/months at age 84???


30 posted on 09/02/2015 7:00:53 PM PDT by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

Something is wrong! You worked for 32 years and get only $316 in social security? Does not sound right.


31 posted on 09/02/2015 7:03:22 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump is incorruptible. He is the only candidate without rich donors.)
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To: george76

Land of the free now land of the freeloader

Hard to believe an immigrant used to have a sponsor who would pay their way for them if they couldn’t support themselves.

My that certainly has changed.

Just another symptom of our decline and fall.


32 posted on 09/02/2015 9:36:46 PM PDT by Cubs Fan ( liberalism=totalitarianism- http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/06/the-new-totalitarians-are-here/)
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