Posted on 12/03/2018 7:53:38 AM PST by sailor76
A majority of “non-citizens,” including those with legal green card rights, are tapping into welfare programs set up to help poor and ailing Americans, a Census Bureau finding that bolsters President Trump’s concern about immigrants costing the nation.
In a new analysis of the latest numbers, from 2014, 63 percent of non-citizens are using a welfare program, and it grows to 70 percent for those here 10 years or more, confirming another concern that once immigrants tap into welfare, they don’t get off it. numbers-welfare-18-f1.jpg
The Center for Immigration Studies said in its report that the numbers give support for Trump’s plan to cut non-citizens off welfare from the “public charge” if they want a green card that allows them to legally work in the United States.
“The Trump administration has proposed new ‘public charge’ rules making it harder for prospective immigrants to qualify for lawful permanent residence -- green cards -- if they use or are likely to use U.S. welfare programs,” said CIS.
“Concern over immigrant welfare use is justified, as households headed by non-citizens use means-tested welfare at high rates. Non-citizens in the data include illegal immigrants, long-term temporary visitors like guest workers, and permanent residents who have not naturalized. While barriers to welfare use exist for these groups, it has not prevented them from making extensive use of the welfare system, often receiving benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children,” added the Washington-based immigration think tank.
The numbers are huge. The report said that there are 4,684,784 million non-citizen households receiving welfare.
And nearly all, 4,370,385, have at least one worker in the house..
In their report, Steven A. Camarota, the director of research, and Karen Zeigler, a demographer at the Center, said that in census data, about half of those are in the United States illegally.
Their key findings in the analysis:
In 2014, 63 percent of households headed by a non-citizen reported that they used at least one welfare program, compared to 35 percent of native-headed households.
Welfare use drops to 58 percent for non-citizen households and 30 percent for native households if cash payments from the Earned Income Tax Credit are not counted as welfare. EITC recipients pay no federal income tax. Like other welfare, the EITC is a means-tested, anti-poverty program, but unlike other programs one has to work to receive it
Compared to native households, non-citizen households have much higher use of food programs (45 percent vs. 21 percent for natives) and Medicaid (50 percent vs. 23 percent for natives).
Including the EITC, 31 percent of non-citizen-headed households receive cash welfare, compared to 19 percent of native households. If the EITC is not included, then cash receipt by non-citizen households is slightly lower than natives (6 percent vs. 8 percent).
While most new legal immigrants (green card holders) are barred from most welfare programs, as are illegal immigrants and temporary visitors, these provisions have only a modest impact on non-citizen household use rates because: 1) most legal immigrants have been in the country long enough to qualify; 2) the bar does not apply to all programs, nor does it always apply to non-citizen children; 3) some states provide welfare to new immigrants on their own; and, most importantly, 4) non-citizens (including illegal immigrants) can receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children who are awarded U.S. citizenship and full welfare eligibility at birth.
The rats and rinos passed the laws that allow the American taxpayer to fund the dim party and their money laundering cohorts.
Don’t worry, be happy, the Bush League Republicans you vote for will make them citizens..../s
So much for the great myth of the illegal aliens’ “work ethic.” They LOVE getting on the U.S. taxpayers’ teat and are trying to suck it dry.
You can’t identify them, because in their primitive cultures, hundreds of thousands of them have the same name. Just look in any phone book in CA. Our country has not done vetting of foreigners right since Ellis Island.
WTF are we doing this???
A bit of disagreement. The rest definately yes but Asians, not so much.
Why are non-citizens getting welfare?
“EITC recipients pay no federal income tax. Like other welfare, the EITC is a means-tested, anti-poverty program, but unlike other programs one has to work to receive it”
Said another way, it is a minimum wage enhancement curtsy of the fed gov (the people). I have been strongly against this program since inception. WTF should I underwrite businesses who decide to not pay the going wages. BTW, since they pay less then they would otherwise, companies chinze on the amount of SS taxes they pay too.
Because we are fools
The understanding We the People have with Congress is that immigrants require sponsors who will sustain them and keep them from drawing benefits for which they have not contributed. It’s time to turn to those sponsors, whether individuals or Non-Govt. Organizations (NGOs), such as Catholic Charities.
Then announce a 10-yr moratorium on all new applications for citizenship. Period.
We had an intelligent white majority that dropped its birthrate to accommodate the reduced need for jobs due to automation. Even farmhands are being replaced by robots now. Now a less intelligent mass of humanity is at our borders demanding free stuff in exchange for more mouths to feed. And an even less intelligent mass of humanity is slowly falling for the globalist dream of one world united under one government of globalist fascism.
And “our” poor are still in the richest 1% of the world.
You are a futurist. Hate crime speech laws will be expanded to cover something like this. It has already happened in Britain. Just say something bad about a favored class in London and see what happens, for example.
The It’s “ok to be white” meme was considered racist by the mostly white PC media, so predictable.
So let’s do an “OK to be a US citizen” meme.
They should include educating all-immigrant children.
What’s that giant sucking sound?
BUILD THE WALL!!
4.6m households...that means at least 2 probably more. Let’s assume 3 on average...nearly 14m illegals on public assistance.
All i]=of this info shows us why Trump wants the question bout citizenship on the census.
I am convinced that most of the illegals DO NOT appear on any past census numbers.
There was plenty of time for the worthless GOP to do something and they didn’t on purpose. The parasites will continue to colonize America at their leisure.
>Why are non-citizens getting welfare?
Wrong ? (Not that I can recall ANY elected getting to the root [maybe, aside from the ‘kook’ Dr. Paul]): Why IS there ‘welfare’; by WHAT *authority*?.
I can point out not only the plain verbiage of the 14th (via ‘anchor’ babies), but A1S8, 4th/5th/9th/10th and SPECIFICALLY the 13th that *PROHIBITS* any such notion.
Typical ‘talking-heads’ usually begin by accepting every premise from the Left
Well, one of the peeps I trained, who is an anchor baby himself - along with his wife, was fired this weekend. His days calling in sick miraculously coincided with the bookends of his schedule. Everything became a long weekend, and they involved going back to LA in order to visit the illegal immigrant parents (now grandparents) because they were too scared to come to Utah, fearing apprehension by authorities.
So now, we have a family of 2 adults, 3 children, only being supported by the wife’s minimum wage retail paycheck.
And now you know why we’re 20 T in debt, gang.
I suspect a great amount of welfare payments will flow to this family in the next 30 days.
Exactly what the dems wanted.
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