AZrailwhale
Diamond Member
You're lying by omission. Illegal immigrants aren't eligible for social services EXCEPT Medicad. However their numerous American born children are. I've worked in immigrant neighborhoods for a major TELCO. Our orders showed primary income source (I don't know why, but they did). In almost every household that I worked in where the adults didn't speak English, the major income source was Aid to Dependent Children (Welfare for those who don't speak governmentese). So effectively Illegal Immigrants DO get welfare, just second hand for their kids benefit, but the parents share in the Section Eight housing, SNAP, free medical care. free school meals, free education. free after school child care and many other benefits paid for by taxpayers. It's been shown time and time again that Illegal Immigrant families are a serious net benefit loss to society. They pay few taxes and small amounts when they do, and consume large amounts of government services."
Facts About Immigrants & the Food Stamp Program
MAY 2007
Immigrants pay more than their fair share of taxes and make vital contributions to the United States. Despite their hard work and the fact that their wages are often low, immigrants are not eligible for food stamps or other basic safety-net services on the same basis as U.S. citizens.
Food stamps are available only to U.S. citizens and limited categories of lawfully residing immigrants.
Noncitizens work at the same rate as U.S. citizens but are twice as likely to be poor, in part because they work predominantly in low-wage jobs.
- Undocumented immigrants are not, and never have been, eligible for food stamps.
- In 1996, most lawfully residing immigrants were cut from the Food Stamp Program, including many immigrants who had been living and working in the U.S. for several years. Recognizing the severe inequity and harm caused by this policy, Congress enacted two bills (in 1998 and 2002) restoring eligibility for some categories of immigrants.
- However, most lawfully residing adults cannot receive food stamps on the same basis as citizens until they have been in the U.S. in a specified “qualified” immigrant status for five years.
- Households headed by noncitizens are just as likely to have a full-time worker as households headed by citizens.[1]
- Immigrants make up 11 percent of U.S. residents but represent 20 percent of low-wage workers.[2]
- Nearly half (48 percent) of all immigrant workers earn less than two times the minimum wage.[3]
- Because many newcomers earn low wages, noncitizens are twice as likely to be poor as foreignborn naturalized citizens (10.4 compared to 20.4 percent).[4]"