Majority of Immigrant Households Are on Welfare
By Mark Krikorian
The Corner at National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/423422/majority-immigrant-households-are-on-welfare?target=author&tid=982 A new report by my colleague Steven Camarota finds that most immigrant households use welfare. That immigrants receive taxpayer-funded benefits at higher rates than the native-born isn’t a new finding. But previous research (including by CIS) has never found such a high rate. The reason is that Camarota used a different Census Bureau data source, the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), that is more difficult to use but, as its name suggests, provides the most comprehensive view of welfare use (a.k.a “program participation”). The study shows that 51 percent of immigrant-headed households use at least one welfare program, as opposed to 30 percent for households headed by the native-born.
The study examined Medicaid, cash assistance, food aid, and housing programs. The graph below shows overall welfare use for immigrant and native households.
We’ve been doing this long enough to anticipate the objections from immigration sentimentalists:
But it’s only illegals! Actually, three-fourths of the immigrant households using welfare are headed by a legal immigrant. Illegal aliens are indeed included in the SIPP, and they do often receive welfare benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children, but this is not a problem that can be solved simply with a fence, a wall, or any other form of enforcement.
But immigrants are hard workers! No doubt, but welfare and work are not mutually exclusive. The report found that half of immigrant households with one or more workers still accessed the welfare system. Among those working-households headed by an immigrant who did not have a high school education, an astonishing 77 percent accessed welfare, as did 64 percent of working households headed by an immigrant with only a high school education.
This is because the entire welfare system is designed to help low-wage workers, especially those with children, and this describes a very large share of immigrant households. For example, a household consisting of a mother with two kids working full-time earning $12 a hour is still eligible for just about every welfare program.
It’s for the children! As the preceding suggests, much of welfare is intended to benefit kids; that’s the main way that illegal immigrants, in particular, receive welfare benefits. Fully 62 percent of immigrant households that have children feed those children, at least at school, with taxpayer money. One might ask why are we admitting people – hundreds of thousands more every year – who can’t even afford to feed their own children? But immigration-booster Linda Chavez, who commented on our study in today’s USA Today story, predictably responded with the liberal argument that welfare is an investment: “These kids who get subsidized school lunches today will go on to graduate high school…will go on to college and move up to the middle class of America.” Well, then, the more investment the better! Let’s give everyone welfare!
And anyway, even if you don’t count free and subsidized school lunch, welfare use is still at 46 percent for immigrant households.
It’s only recent immigrants! Linda also tried this retort in the
USA Today story, saying, in the reporter’s words, that “immigrants start off poorer and have lower levels of education, making it unfair to compare their welfare use to the long-established native-born population.” Even though she was provided a copy of the report for comment, it appears she didn’t get to the second bullet on the first page, which notes that even among households headed by an immigrant who’s been here more than twenty years, about half use welfare.
Let’s wall off the welfare system! Good luck with that. We tried that in the 1996 welfare reform, and the results of that social experiment are in. The broader welfare reform measures really did work, but the attempt at differentiating between poor people based on place of birth didn’t. There’s a short appendix at the end of our new welfare report, starting on page 25, which explains why. It’s enlightening reading for those who think subtly calibrated policies negotiated in Congress can be successfully implemented if they go against the grain of liberal bureaucracies.
Some of the highlights: While immigrants in theory can be deported for becoming a “public charge,” it never happens; in all of 2012 there was just one investigation of an immigrant under this provision, and it was dropped. In figuring who is a “public charge,” only cash benefits are counted; so that an immigrant family living in public housing, receiving food stamps, free school lunch, and Medicaid is considered self-sufficient! The requirement that new legal immigrants turn to their sponsors if they need help, not the welfare system – “deeming” in the jargon – contains an “indigent exception”; in other words, if you’re poor enough the welfare bar doesn’t apply, negating the entire purpose of the bar.
The restrictions on immigrant welfare use also don’t work as intended because they apply only to a modest share of immigrants; some programs aren’t restricted; state governments often cover immigrants with their own money; there are numerous exceptions and exemptions; and some provisions are simply unenforced.
Practically and politically, it’s nearly impossible to keep poor immigrant families off the welfare system once they are in the country. This isn’t a moral failing; the fact that immigrant households are about 60 percent more likely to use welfare than natives doesn’t mean they’re 60 percent “worse.” Rather, they’re less educated, thus earn less money, thus qualify for a wide variety of taxpayer-funded services. There’s simply no way to allow less-educated workers into the country to fill low-wage jobs without creating enormous welfare costs for taxpayers.
The only answer is to stop admitting so many poor immigrants. When you’re in a hole, stop digging.
Giving Illegals Access to Welfare
‘An Assault on the U.S. Taxpayer,’ Researcher Says
Robert Rector
of The Heritage Foundation
70% of all invading ILLEGALS end up on welfare. Getting
an
American job with a stolen social security number is NEVER and
issue!!!
“The share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a
child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very
high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of
education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an
unwillingness to work. . ."
Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will
Get $9.4T in
Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'
what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add
it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the
MEXICAN now operate in 2,500 American
cities!
CALIFORNIA – MEXICO’S
$32 BILLION
DOLLAR WELFARE STATE
CALIFORNIA IS A LOOTED COLONY OF
MEXICO. THE LA RAZA-CONTROLLED STATE LEGISLATURE PASSES LAW AFTER LAW THAT
BENEFITS ILLEGALS AND ENCOURAGES MORE OF THEM TO HOP OUR BORDERS.
Most Illegal
Immigrant Families Collect Welfare…
ALL GET AMERICAN
JOBS!
Surprise, surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S.
families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on
behalf of their American-born anchor babies.
THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: PROTECT INVADING LOOTING MEXICANS FROM DEPORTATION - SABOTAGE of HOMELAND SECURITY TO BUILD THE LA RAZA DEM PARTY BASE OF VOTING ILLEGALS!
THE SECRET AGENDA OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA TO SURRENDER
AMERICA’S BORDERS TO NARCOMEX and destroy the GOP with millions of looting
illegals voting DEM for more!
COMING
FOR OBAMA’S AMNESTY, ANCHOR BABY WELFARE AND U.S. JOBS…
Nearly a MILLION more…..Mexicans
jumped America’s open borders this
year.
THERE
ARE NOW 40 MILLION ILLEGALS IN OUR COUNTRY,
JOBS AND WELFARE LINES!
POPULATION SURGE
MEXICO DOUBLES THE
POPULATION OF AMERICA, FILLS OUR JOBS, PRISONS AND WELFARE OFFICES AND VOTED DEM FOR MORE!
hell!
they have NO IDEA how many illegals have jumped our borders in the last year!!!
JUDICIAL
WATCH:
“Our friends at the Center for Immigration Studies just this
week announced that their
analysis of census data shows that "the nation's immigrant
population (legal and illegal) hit
a record high of 42.1 million in the second quarter of
this year - an increase of 1.7 million
since the same quarter of 2014." This means that the noncitizens now comprise
"13.3
percent of the nation's total population - the largest share in
105 years.”
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
January 10, 2011
By: James Walsh
Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the
cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education,
healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or
more politically correct, “undocumented immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug
cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the
southern border.
While the declining job market in the United
States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal
aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as
drug-smuggling “mules.”
LA RAZA
FASCISM:
(LA
RAZA is the Mexican fascist party that is funded by Barack Obama and operates
out of the White House under LA RAZA V.P. Cecilia Munoz.)
"We have an aging
white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The
explosion is in our population and I love it. They are shitting
in their pants with fear. I love it." ---Professor Jose Angel
Gutierrez, University of Texas
"Remember
187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California."
---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party
Richard
Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council "They're afraid we're going to take
over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're right. We
will take them over. . We are here to stay."
Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California
State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Jerry Brown, also
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton "California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone
who doesn't like it should leave."
Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La
Reconquista" in California."
“WE WILL TAKE CONTROL OF OUR COUNTRY
(U.S.) BY VOTE IF POSSIBLE AND VIOLENCE IF NECESSARY!” THE MEXICAN FASCIST
PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race” NOW SENIOR PARTNER OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
“Through love of having
children, we are going to take over.” AUGUSTIN CEBADA,
BROWN BERETS, THE LA
RAZA FASCIST PARTY of AMERICA
OBAMA FUNDS LA RAZA
WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS AND IT OPERATES OUT OF THE WHITE
HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA
SUPREMACIST CECELIA MUNOZ – GOOGLE IT!
WILL
MEXICO ULTIMATELY BANKRUPT AMERICA?
Look
at Mexifornia!
Viva
La Raza Supremacy?
THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!
"With the approach
of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once
again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working
people."
“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats
as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers,
stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which
has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in
order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”
Foreign-born
women gain 141,000 jobs, U.S.-born women lose 90,000
By PAUL BEDARD
(OBAMA: 8 YEARS OF
PUTTING ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS!)
The surge in the numbers
of foreign-born women getting U.S. jobs at the expense of American-born women
expanded in August, continuing an eight-year trend.
New Bureau of Labor
Statistics info detailing August jobs shows that the number of U.S.-born women
16 and older with jobs declined by 90,000 and rose for foreign-born women by
141,000.
There are currently
59.258 million American-born working women compared to 10.028 foreign-born
working women.
Secrets last month reported that all job gains among women since the 2007 recession
hit went to foreign-born women workers.
Income
inequality grows four times faster under
Obama than Bush
….
we bankroll
Mexico's welfare state in our borders as the number of Americans (Legals) sink
into poverty! Illegals also get all the jobs!
The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great
Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently
reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a
striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present
crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity
program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social
inequality.
REPORT: ALIEN NATION
…. push 2 for
English
How the American people permitted
the U.S. tax supported Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race” invade,
occupy and loot America.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/corporations-funding-mexican-fascist.html
Mark Levin:
‘Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down’
PATRICK
BUCHANAN:
OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA
BEGINS AT OUR BORDERS
“Yet nothing
that happens on these borders
imperils America so much as what is happening
on
our own bleeding border with Mexico.”
Patrick Buchanan
JUDICIAL WATCH SOUNDS THE ALARM!
THE ILLEGALS’ CRIME TIDAL WAVE in our
OPEN and UNDEFENDED BORDERS!
“In
all, the newspaper identified 424 released illegal immigrants convicted of
sex-related crimes in the records obtained under the lawsuit. Around half
appeared in the national public sex offender registry as required by law. Of the
registered sex offenders, 53 failed to re-register after ICE released them and
the agency didn’t bother to follow up.” JUDICIAL WATCH
AMERICA’S
THIRD-WORLD INVASION
… isn’t it really ONLY about keeping wages depressed???
AN AMERICAN SEES and SPEAKS…
REALITY OF THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST OCCUPATION:
I'm half Mexican, I live on the U.S. / Mexico
international border - exactly 1.6 miles from the International bridge.
Listen, the VAST majority of these ILLEGAL SQUATERS do
NOT - I repeat - DO NOT want to become U.S. citizens.
They see the U.S. as a MEAL TICKET, they DON'T want to
pay taxes, wave an American flag, learn our language or follow our laws.
Mexico - far, far away from the fancy seaside resorts
some of you all may have visited is a HELL HOLE.
These ILLEGAL ALIENS see
the U.S. as an extension of "their area" with NO CONCERN or
aspirations to be "Americans."
REALITY CHECK:
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to
the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot." --- Excelsior,
the national newspaper of Mexico
40% of Federal Criminal Cases in 2013 Were in Districts
on Mexican Border
MORE AT
THIS LINK:
Non-deportation rate drops — to 99.2 percent
Saturday, May 18, 2013
The
Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all
illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama's new non-deportation
policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday.
President Barack Obama and Mexico Partner to Expand the LA RAZA
MEXICAN WELFARE STATE in America through "amnesty"
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered
documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with
the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the
American dole.” Washington Times
OBAMA PROMISES MEXICO: Only 3 out of 100 invading looting Mexicans will ever be sent
packing!
All will be handed jobs, anchor baby
welfare, “free” gringo-paid healthcare, education and NO I.D.s to go out and
vote Dem for more!
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered
documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with
the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the
American dole.” Washington Times
DEPORTATION LIES:
Obama’s conspiracy to surrender to our borders to Mexico as he fights for the
borders of Muslim dictators over there.
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY EXPANDS THE
MEXICAN WELFARE STATE ON OUR
BACKS
WHICH
HAS MORE CONTEMPT FOR LEGALS, OUR BORDERS AND LAWS???
MEXICO
or the DEMOCRAT PARTY which funds the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA???
VIRGINIA FALLS TO LA RAZA!
VIRGINIA JOINS MEXIFORNIA, NEVADA, NEW
MEXICO, ARIZONA, AND
TEXAS as a “SANCTUARY STATE” WHERE ILLEGALS ARE ABOVE THE
LAW, HANDED MILLIONS IN WELFARE AND MILLIONS OF JOBS
MEXICO ANNOUNCES THE FORMER STATE OF VIRGINIA
HAS
SURRENDERED TO LA RAZA SUPREMACY.
THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION SPREADS ACROSS
AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS AT CATASTROPHIC COST TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
LA RAZA-OCCUPIED
MEXIFORNIA:
Gateway for the Mexican drug cartels and Mexico’s welfare office
“Until the dishonesty
and tactical bluster cease, California is at serious risk of becoming a Third
World entity, and the longer Democrats are in power, the more businesses will
continue to flee the state, the more wealthy taxpayers will relocate and the
more our standard of living will continue to decline.”
TIME
TO END LA RAZA’S LOOTING?
MEXICO
BANKRUPTS CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS - MEX
CONSULATES URGE LOOTING OF LEGALS
JUDICIAL WATCH:
While the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on
its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the
U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal
immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal
government.
IN
MEXIFORNIA IT IS A DIFFERENT STORY. MEX CONSULATES OPERATE TO HELP LA RAZA LOOT
THE STUPID GRINGOS!
OBAMA
and MEXICO LOOT PRIVATE ENTERPRISE HOSPITALS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR “FREE”
HEALTHCARE FOR LA RAZA MEXICANS… What’s left for Americans (Legals)???
Where To Go When Your
Local Emergency Room Goes Bankrupt?
During the past ten years 84 California hospitals have declared bankruptcy
and closed their Emergency Rooms forever. Financially crippled by
legislative and judicial mandates to treat illegal aliens have
bankrupted hospitals! In 2010, in Los Angeles County alone, over
2 million illegal aliens recorded visits to county emergency rooms for both
routine and emergency care. Per official figures, the cost is
$1,000 dollars for every taxpayer in Los Angeles County.
LA RAZA-OCCUPATION and LOOTING in MEXIFORNIA…. shocking!
“Californians bear an enormous fiscal
burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million
residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services
for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of
about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.”
“Until the dishonesty
and tactical bluster cease, California is at serious risk of becoming a Third
World entity, and the longer Democrats are in power, the more businesses will
continue to flee the state, the more wealthy taxpayers will relocate and the
more our standard of living will continue to decline.”
California
must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The
state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits,
deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize
'sanctuary' cities.
“Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in
tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained
by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain
that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost
taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal
immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions
of dollars."