Nancy Pelosi Blames Climate Change For 20-Year High In Border Crossings And Surge Under Biden

When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda. Their children do get education and school lunches. That is it despite all your garbage propaganda. And they don't vote. The last survey show that 94% of adult male illegals work, 65% pay taxes, and 35% own homes. Change the channel and get this organized for Christ's sake instead of a never ending GOP scam to have easily bullied workers.... Hater dupe..

Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda.

Once again you are caught being a lying sack of shit Dumbass.

Most illegal immigrants in US receive government benefits, costing taxpayers billions: experts​


FAIR study in 2017 found illegal immigrants are a net consumer of taxpayer benefits worth more than $100 billion a year, not including the cost of enforcing the border.

While federal benefits are supposed to be off limits, in practice many are not. More than 25,000 undocumented workers receive subsidized housing, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Children receive free education and most qualify for English lessons and free school breakfast and lunch.

Illegal immigrants do not qualify for Obamacare but under federal law, hospitals and clinics are required to provide urgent medical care without regard to legal status. Pregnant women are entitled to prenatal and postpartum care under the Women, Infants and Children program. Infant delivery costs are paid for by Medicaid. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a federal-state immigrant insurance program cost $2 billion a year in emergency treatment, not including the $1.24 billion in infant delivery expenses.

Illegal immigrants are not entitled to food stamps, but families with U.S.-born children are. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 31% of such families use the SNAP program and more than 50% of Central American families in the U.S. use at least one welfare program.

As I said, illegals do not get welfare, brainwash functional moron. They are not the problem, they work like crazy and don't ask for their benefits They don't vote or any of the other crap you idiots believe. The country's problem is the lying GOP giveaway to the rich and their brainwash of people like you. Pass the 2010 Democratic immigration bill with an ID card that will end this crap forever stop being a chump
As I said, illegals do not get welfare, brainwash functional moron.

Repeating a proven lie doesn't change the fact it is a lie.

I provided a link proving you are a lying sack of shit..............and what do you do? You repeat the same lie. :cuckoo: :cuckoo:
 
As I said, illegals do not get welfare, brainwash functional moron. They are not the problem, they work like crazy and don't ask for their benefits They don't vote or any of the other crap you idiots believe. The country's problem is the lying GOP giveaway to the rich and their brainwash of people like you. Pass the 2010 Democratic immigration bill with an ID card that will end this crap forever stop being a chump

You've at least stated your case, albeit in the manner of all American crazies who are seething in anger against their fellow Americans. Good for you! When does the shooting start?
 
When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda. Their children do get education and school lunches. That is it despite all your garbage propaganda. And they don't vote. The last survey show that 94% of adult male illegals work, 65% pay taxes, and 35% own homes. Change the channel and get this organized for Christ's sake instead of a never ending GOP scam to have easily bullied workers.... Hater dupe..
America isn't competitive or viable without illegal aliens working for a few bucks an hour.

Efforts to keep them out is coming home to bite America's ass.

Could taxation of the very wealthy bring back slightly higher wages for working Americans?

Probably on the short term but not for long as China marches on with huge social change that puts them untouchable by America's greedy capitalist system.

capitalism in China under communist leadership?

or

Capitalism in America under government for the very wealthy?

Bringing back Trump would be the best route to answering the question the quckest!
How about fair capitalism with a good safety net like every other modern country? It's called socialism. We need a living wage that goes up with inflation. It is not rocket science. And healthcare daycare paid parental leave cheap college and training great infrastructure and vacations and tax the goddamn rich their fair share for a change. Every other country does it, we are the richest country in the world easily. Strike the war machine. Lol.


Change the channel
 
When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda. Their children do get education and school lunches. That is it despite all your garbage propaganda. And they don't vote. The last survey show that 94% of adult male illegals work, 65% pay taxes, and 35% own homes. Change the channel and get this organized for Christ's sake instead of a never ending GOP scam to have easily bullied workers.... Hater dupe..
America isn't competitive or viable without illegal aliens working for a few bucks an hour.

Efforts to keep them out is coming home to bite America's ass.

Could taxation of the very wealthy bring back slightly higher wages for working Americans?

Probably on the short term but not for long as China marches on with huge social change that puts them untouchable by America's greedy capitalist system.

capitalism in China under communist leadership?

or

Capitalism in America under government for the very wealthy?

Bringing back Trump would be the best route to answering the question the quckest!
How about fair capitalism with a good safety net like every other modern country? It's called socialism. We need a living wage that goes up with inflation. It is not rocket science. And healthcare daycare paid parental leave cheap college and training great infrastructure and vacations and tax the goddamn rich their fair share for a change. Every other country does it, we are the richest country in the world easily. Strike the war machine. Lol.


Change the channel
tax the goddamn rich their fair share for a change.

Define "fair share" using exact numbers.

This is always a hoot. :banana:
 
Link to your data?

No, that's not my job. If you disagree then you can show how.
That was easy.

I accept your admission you are full of shit.

Dismissed, liar.
Glad to get shod of you.

If it was only that easy?

The Trump program is clearly stated as more enrichment of the very wealthy on the assumption that it will trickle down to the working people. Embrace it or oppose it, but at least stop barking at the wind.
 
When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda. Their children do get education and school lunches. That is it despite all your garbage propaganda. And they don't vote. The last survey show that 94% of adult male illegals work, 65% pay taxes, and 35% own homes. Change the channel and get this organized for Christ's sake instead of a never ending GOP scam to have easily bullied workers.... Hater dupe..
America isn't competitive or viable without illegal aliens working for a few bucks an hour.

Efforts to keep them out is coming home to bite America's ass.

Could taxation of the very wealthy bring back slightly higher wages for working Americans?

Probably on the short term but not for long as China marches on with huge social change that puts them untouchable by America's greedy capitalist system.

capitalism in China under communist leadership?

or

Capitalism in America under government for the very wealthy?

Bringing back Trump would be the best route to answering the question the quckest!
How about fair capitalism with a good safety net like every other modern country? It's called socialism. We need a living wage that goes up with inflation. It is not rocket science. And healthcare daycare paid parental leave cheap college and training great infrastructure and vacations and tax the goddamn rich their fair share for a change. Every other country does it, we are the richest country in the world easily. Strike the war machine. Lol.


Change the channel
tax the goddamn rich their fair share for a change.

Define "fair share" using exact numbers.

This is always a hoot. :banana:
Higher DUH I'd say 50% at least top rate like under Reagan when he had success and before he screwed the country with 28% top rate going out the door. Which you don't know about. Idiot.
 
When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda. Their children do get education and school lunches. That is it despite all your garbage propaganda. And they don't vote. The last survey show that 94% of adult male illegals work, 65% pay taxes, and 35% own homes. Change the channel and get this organized for Christ's sake instead of a never ending GOP scam to have easily bullied workers.... Hater dupe..
America isn't competitive or viable without illegal aliens working for a few bucks an hour.

Efforts to keep them out is coming home to bite America's ass.

Could taxation of the very wealthy bring back slightly higher wages for working Americans?

Probably on the short term but not for long as China marches on with huge social change that puts them untouchable by America's greedy capitalist system.

capitalism in China under communist leadership?

or

Capitalism in America under government for the very wealthy?

Bringing back Trump would be the best route to answering the question the quckest!


This filthy ass welfare state and the associated cost of government is the reason why America isn't competitive as it could be. We spend more money on the combined cost of government than the GDP of all but the top three or so countries.
It's an idea but 'government spending' somehow doesn't quite hit the mark. However, it can be interpreted as you suggesting that more tax cuts for the wealthy are the way forward, on account of you mentioning the 'filthy' welfare state. Can you expand on your theory.

But your anger and frustration really does!


What I am suggesting is less spending and less taxation for everybody. The filthy Feds spends about $5 trillion a year and the States and Locals spend almost like amount. That is a tremendous burden upon our economy for which we don't get very much in return from this bloated government. The Illegals get their welfare and GM and Chrysler get their bailouts and the Solyndra Democrat campaign bundler bosses get their grants and other countries get their gender studies paid for by the US but the American taxpayers are pretty much fucked.

How about no welfare, grants, subsidies, foreign aid, entitlements or bailouts for anybody? It ain't rocket science.

You Libtards don't know any more about Economics than you know about History, Climate Science, Biology, Ethics or the Constitution, do you?
 
I guess the 40 year low under Trump was due to Obamamessiah’s weather changing effects.


Your ridiculous GOP propaganda machine doesn't tell you about the two hurricanes they had the last two years un heard of and all the other strange weather down there with the floods. Not to mention the volcanoes recently. Dumbass. Change the channel read something, brainwashed functional moron.

Your ridiculous big oil big health big pharma big money garbage party is a total disgrace and so are you for not caring what reality is.... Brainwashed functional racist....

Get a job dickhead. It may give you some pride.

WTF are you talking about, brainwashed functional moron? Lol. I am happily retired thanks. Everything you know is wrong. Try reality

WTF are you talking about, brainwashed functional moron?
Says science hater who thinks the tropics have never experienced two hurricanes before.
 
Everything he says is true, brainwashed functional moron hater Dupe. Change the channel for crying out loud lol
Don't bother shitting on each other on my time. I'm more interested in when the shooting starts.
America if fkd up and nothing is going to change until Trump fixes it or destroys it all completely.

I could give a lick which?
 
When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda. Their children do get education and school lunches. That is it despite all your garbage propaganda. And they don't vote. The last survey show that 94% of adult male illegals work, 65% pay taxes, and 35% own homes. Change the channel and get this organized for Christ's sake instead of a never ending GOP scam to have easily bullied workers.... Hater dupe..

Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda.

Once again you are caught being a lying sack of shit Dumbass.

Most illegal immigrants in US receive government benefits, costing taxpayers billions: experts​


FAIR study in 2017 found illegal immigrants are a net consumer of taxpayer benefits worth more than $100 billion a year, not including the cost of enforcing the border.

While federal benefits are supposed to be off limits, in practice many are not. More than 25,000 undocumented workers receive subsidized housing, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Children receive free education and most qualify for English lessons and free school breakfast and lunch.

Illegal immigrants do not qualify for Obamacare but under federal law, hospitals and clinics are required to provide urgent medical care without regard to legal status. Pregnant women are entitled to prenatal and postpartum care under the Women, Infants and Children program. Infant delivery costs are paid for by Medicaid. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found a federal-state immigrant insurance program cost $2 billion a year in emergency treatment, not including the $1.24 billion in infant delivery expenses.

Illegal immigrants are not entitled to food stamps, but families with U.S.-born children are. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 31% of such families use the SNAP program and more than 50% of Central American families in the U.S. use at least one welfare program.

As I said, illegals do not get welfare, brainwash functional moron. They are not the problem, they work like crazy and don't ask for their benefits They don't vote or any of the other crap you idiots believe. The country's problem is the lying GOP giveaway to the rich and their brainwash of people like you. Pass the 2010 Democratic immigration bill with an ID card that will end this crap forever stop being a chump
As I said, illegals do not get welfare, brainwash functional moron.
Most Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare
 
When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda.
Liar!

You stupid Moon Bats are confused about everything, aren't you? Then you wonder why we ridicule you so much for being dumbasses.

63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs

Among the findings:


  • 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 (EITC) 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 following figures include EITC:


  • No single program explains non-citizens' higher overall welfare use. For example, not counting school lunch and breakfast, welfare use is still 61 percent for non-citizen households compared to 33 percent for natives. Not counting Medicaid, welfare use is 55 percent for immigrants compared to 30 percent for natives.
  • Welfare use tends to be high for both newer arrivals and long-time residents. Of households headed by non-citizens in the United States for fewer than 10 years, 50 percent use one or more welfare programs; for those here more than 10 years, the rate is 70 percent.
  • Welfare receipt by working households is very common. Of non-citizen households receiving welfare, 93 percent have at least one worker, as do 76 percent of native households receiving welfare. In fact, non-citizen households are more likely overall to have a worker than are native households.1
  • The primary reason welfare use is so high among non-citizens is that a much larger share of non-citizens have modest levels of education and, as a result, they often earn low wages and qualify for welfare at higher rates than natives.
  • Of all non-citizen households, 58 percent are headed by immigrants who have no more than a high school education, compared to 36 percent of native households.
  • Of households headed by non-citizens with no more than a high school education, 81 percent access one or more welfare programs. In contrast, 28 percent of non-citizen households headed by a college graduate use one or more welfare programs.
  • Like non-citizens, welfare use also varies significantly for natives by educational attainment, with the least educated having much higher welfare use than the most educated.
  • Using education levels and likely future income to determine the probability of welfare use among new green card applicants — and denying permanent residency to those likely to utilize such programs — would almost certainly reduce welfare use among future permanent residents.
  • Of households headed by naturalized immigrants (U.S. citizens), 50 percent used one or more welfare programs. Naturalized-citizen households tend to have lower welfare use than non-citizen households for most types of programs, but higher use rates than native households for virtually every major program.
  • Welfare use is significantly higher for non-citizens than for natives in all four top immigrant-receiving states. In California, 72 percent of non-citizen-headed households use one or more welfare programs, compared to 35 percent for native-headed households. In Texas, the figures are 69 percent vs. 35 percent; in New York they are 53 percent vs. 38 percent; and in Florida, 56 percent of non-citizen-headed households use at least welfare program, compared to 35 percent of native households.
 
Link to your data?

No, that's not my job. If you disagree then you can show how.
That was easy.

I accept your admission you are full of shit.

Dismissed, liar.
Glad to get shod of you.

If it was only that easy?

The Trump program is clearly stated as more enrichment of the very wealthy on the assumption that it will trickle down to the working people. Embrace it or oppose it, but at least stop barking at the wind.
It was an across the board tax cut. Most people, especially the middle class, use the standard deduction. Trump doubled that.
That's on top of the marginal rate reductions on the poor and middle class.
2017 Income Tax Rate2019 Income Tax RateIncome for Those Filing As SingleIncome for Those Filing Jointly
10%10%$0-$9,700$0-$19,400
15%12%$9,701-$39,475$19,401-$78,950
25%22%$39,476-$84,200$78,951-$168,400
28%24%$84,201-$160,725$168,401-$321,450
33%32%$160,726-$204,100$321,451-$408,200
33%-35%35%$204,101-$510,300$408,201-$612,350
39.6%37%More than $510,300More than $612,350

These income levels are adjusted somewhat each year to keep pace with inflation.


The Standard Deduction vs. Itemized Deductions​

A single filer's standard deduction increased from $6,350 in 2017 to $12,200 in 2019. The deduction for married joint filers increases from $12,700 in 2017 to $24,400 in 2019.6


The Tax Foundation estimated in September 2019 that only about 13.7% of taxpayers would itemize on their 2018 returns due to these changes. That's less than half of the 31.1% who would have itemized before the TCJA.


That would save them time in preparing their taxes. It might also hurt the tax preparation industry and decrease charitable contributions, which are an itemized deduction.7



^^^^That's what you call a link. You get to use these when you don't lie^^^^^^^
 


What I am suggesting is less spending and less taxation for everybody. The filthy Feds spends about $5 trillion a year and the States and Locals spend almost like amount. That is a tremendous burden upon our economy for which we don't get very much in return from this bloated government. The Illegals get their welfare and GM and Chrysler get their bailouts and the Solyndra Democrat campaign bundler bosses get their grants and other countries get their gender studies paid for by the US but the American taxpayers are pretty much fucked.

How about no welfare, grants, subsidies, foreign aid, entitlements or bailouts for anybody? It ain't rocket science.

You Libtards don't know any more about Economics than you know about History, Climate Science, Biology, Ethics or the Constitution, do you?

To me your suggestions or complaints are just more of the wrong attitude that made America a failure to begin with.
However, there's common ground in the fact that you are acknowledging America's failure.

And so back to the main point.

China surges ahead with it's capitalism under the leadership of communism.
While America fails under it's current dysfunctional system of greedy capitalism.

Does Trump have a way of changing that?
Nobody seems to have been able to explain that, but that doesn't mean it can't be.
 
When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda. Their children do get education and school lunches. That is it despite all your garbage propaganda. And they don't vote. The last survey show that 94% of adult male illegals work, 65% pay taxes, and 35% own homes. Change the channel and get this organized for Christ's sake instead of a never ending GOP scam to have easily bullied workers.... Hater dupe..
America isn't competitive or viable without illegal aliens working for a few bucks an hour.

Efforts to keep them out is coming home to bite America's ass.

Could taxation of the very wealthy bring back slightly higher wages for working Americans?

Probably on the short term but not for long as China marches on with huge social change that puts them untouchable by America's greedy capitalist system.

capitalism in China under communist leadership?

or

Capitalism in America under government for the very wealthy?

Bringing back Trump would be the best route to answering the question the quckest!
How about fair capitalism with a good safety net like every other modern country? It's called socialism. We need a living wage that goes up with inflation. It is not rocket science. And healthcare daycare paid parental leave cheap college and training great infrastructure and vacations and tax the goddamn rich their fair share for a change. Every other country does it, we are the richest country in the world easily. Strike the war machine. Lol.


Change the channel
tax the goddamn rich their fair share for a change.

Define "fair share" using exact numbers.

This is always a hoot. :banana:
Higher DUH I'd say 50% at least top rate like under Reagan when he had success and before he screwed the country with 28% top rate going out the door. Which you don't know about. Idiot.
"50% at a least" isn't exact numbers.

give us an exact rate, and at what income you want it to start.
 
I guess the 40 year low under Trump was due to Obamamessiah’s weather changing effects.


Your ridiculous GOP propaganda machine doesn't tell you about the two hurricanes they had the last two years un heard of and all the other strange weather down there with the floods. Not to mention the volcanoes recently. Dumbass. Change the channel read something, brainwashed functional moron.

Your ridiculous big oil big health big pharma big money garbage party is a total disgrace and so are you for not caring what reality is.... Brainwashed functional racist....

Get a job dickhead. It may give you some pride.

WTF are you talking about, brainwashed functional moron? Lol. I am happily retired thanks. Everything you know is wrong. Try reality

I stand corrected. Enjoy your retirement. I have no doubt it is well deserved.
 
When we Americans say that these stupid Moon Bats don't know any more about Climate Science than they know about Economics, Biology, History, Ethics or the Constitution it is dumb things like this we are talking about.

The fucking little shitheads are flooding into this country to sign up for welfare because Joe Dufus ran on a platform to let them flood in. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with the climate. The US has a better welfare system than wherever the little shitheads ran away from. Climate doesn't have anything to do with it.
Immigrants are not able to get welfare, what you are talking about is b******* propaganda.
Liar!

You stupid Moon Bats are confused about everything, aren't you? Then you wonder why we ridicule you so much for being dumbasses.

63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs

Among the findings:


  • 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 (EITC) 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 following figures include EITC:


  • No single program explains non-citizens' higher overall welfare use. For example, not counting school lunch and breakfast, welfare use is still 61 percent for non-citizen households compared to 33 percent for natives. Not counting Medicaid, welfare use is 55 percent for immigrants compared to 30 percent for natives.
  • Welfare use tends to be high for both newer arrivals and long-time residents. Of households headed by non-citizens in the United States for fewer than 10 years, 50 percent use one or more welfare programs; for those here more than 10 years, the rate is 70 percent.
  • Welfare receipt by working households is very common. Of non-citizen households receiving welfare, 93 percent have at least one worker, as do 76 percent of native households receiving welfare. In fact, non-citizen households are more likely overall to have a worker than are native households.1
  • The primary reason welfare use is so high among non-citizens is that a much larger share of non-citizens have modest levels of education and, as a result, they often earn low wages and qualify for welfare at higher rates than natives.
  • Of all non-citizen households, 58 percent are headed by immigrants who have no more than a high school education, compared to 36 percent of native households.
  • Of households headed by non-citizens with no more than a high school education, 81 percent access one or more welfare programs. In contrast, 28 percent of non-citizen households headed by a college graduate use one or more welfare programs.
  • Like non-citizens, welfare use also varies significantly for natives by educational attainment, with the least educated having much higher welfare use than the most educated.
  • Using education levels and likely future income to determine the probability of welfare use among new green card applicants — and denying permanent residency to those likely to utilize such programs — would almost certainly reduce welfare use among future permanent residents.
  • Of households headed by naturalized immigrants (U.S. citizens), 50 percent used one or more welfare programs. Naturalized-citizen households tend to have lower welfare use than non-citizen households for most types of programs, but higher use rates than native households for virtually every major program.
  • Welfare use is significantly higher for non-citizens than for natives in all four top immigrant-receiving states. In California, 72 percent of non-citizen-headed households use one or more welfare programs, compared to 35 percent for native-headed households. In Texas, the figures are 69 percent vs. 35 percent; in New York they are 53 percent vs. 38 percent; and in Florida, 56 percent of non-citizen-headed households use at least welfare program, compared to 35 percent of native households.
Americans on both sides of the politics are good at pointing out their country's failure.
 

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