- Dec 18, 2011
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Yea, it's a problem. And the cost of the wall would be a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend on taking care of non-citizens, many who broke laws to enter this country.
Latest data on welfare enrollment by non-citizens.
- Non-citizens are almost twice as likely (63% of noncitizen-headed households compared with 35% for citizens) to get welfare benefits, and more than three times as likely to be uninsured.
- 45% of households headed by a non-citizen reported using food programs in 2014 (compared with 21% for U.S. citizens).
- Half of non-citizen households use Medicaid (compared with 23% for U.S. citizens).
- 31% of non-citizen households got cash benefits (compared with 19% for U.S. citizens).
- Non-citizens are also far more likely to be uninsured (24%) than either native-born Americans (7.5%) or naturalized citizens (8.9%). Of the 28.5 million uninsured in 2017, almost 6 million were non-citizens (essentially one out of every three – non-citizens comprise only 7% of the U.S. population).
- Of the 4,684,784 million non-citizen households receiving welfare, 93 percent or 4,370,385 have at least one worker.
- Not counting school lunch and breakfast, welfare use is still 61 percent for non-citizen households compared to 33 percent for natives.
- Welfare use tends to be high for both newer arrivals and long-time residents.
Latest data on welfare enrollment by non-citizens.