Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: Panel to Examine New Report with Latest Data

Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: Panel to Examine New Report with Latest Data
– Tue Mar 29, 7:50 am ET

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Center for Immigration Studies report finds that, 13 years after welfare reform, 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. The major welfare programs examined in this report include cash assistance, food assistance, Medicaid, and public and subsidized housing.

The findings also show wide variation in welfare use by country of origin, with immigrants from some countries making extensive use of such programs, while those from other countries have relatively low use rates. Welfare use also varies by state, with Arizona, Texas, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Oregon and Colorado having some of the highest levels of welfare use among immigrant households.

The report, "Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children: A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs," is authored by Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies. It will be released Tuesday, April 5, at 9:00 a.m. during a panel discussion at the National Press Club, 14th & F streets, N.W. The report will also be available at the Center's website...

“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”

It has to do with the fact that they are often paid in CASH. Thus, they have no income on paper. We have many here driving Escalades and the like, who will be in line with a WIC card.

Our school district is about 40% mexican immigrant (no stats are given on legal status) and of those, over 80% are on food assistance programs from the school district, yet these same families have nice cars, designer clothing, large screen flat panel televisions, satellite dishes sticking out of their homes (sometimes 3 or 4), and a collection of video games that would put our local library to shame.

We see it all the time in our local grocery store, if you are behind a Mexican, you can lay odds, that they will bust out a WIC card or other assistance card at the check out.

Now, I’m not saying this problem is only related to Mexicans, I have a friend since High School who owns several hair salons. He also deals almost strictly in cash, pays probably half the taxes he should, and also uses his reduced declared income to his advantage whenever possible. But, I think he is quite a bit more rare than your average border hopper.

The costs to struggling Americans to subsidize these parasitic illegals grows each day.

THE SAGA OF PEDRO----RIDING THE US GRAVY TRAIN An illegal alien w/ wife and five children violates our borders. He gets a job mowing lawns for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that low wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, so each year, he files an Income Tax Return to get "EITC---earned income credit" of up to $3,200 scot-free. He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies for food stamps and no deductible, no co-pay free health care. His children get free school breakfasts and lunches. The kids qualify for monthly SSI checks, faking ADD; the illegal and his wife get SSI if they fake being aged, blind or disabled; SSI qualifies them for Medicare. Plus illegals don't worry about pricey items like car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance, and qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

Earned Income Tax Credit is available only to immigrant workers who obtain legal work status. But the law allows immigrants to claim EITC for up to three years prior to obtaining that status. Workers simply file a tax return for the years in which they were not legally eligible to work in the US. The most widespread abuse stems from the requirement that children live with the worker for more than six months of the year. IRS does little to verify the claim. Many immigrants claim non-existent children, or claim children who they’ve left behind with relatives. Those with two or more children and income below $32,121 could get as much as $4,008. It is estimated that illegals got $22 billion.

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ALL OF THAT IS COLLECTED WITH A SINGLE IDENTITY Evidence shows illegals establish several identities with phony SS nos and fake documents (which "impoverished immigrants" buy from traveling document brokers for several thousand dollars).

Illegal Jose Madrigal, the Washington state rapist, had some 30 identities.

EACH FAKE IDENTITY COLLECTS US GOVT FREEEBIES,
--- AND AS EVERY DESPERATE DEMOCRAT KNOWS ---
EACH ILLEGAL IDENTITY VOTES AND VOTES AND VOTES

So How does an impoverished Mexican illegal in the US for a "better" life get multiple identities: driver's licenses, passports, birth certificates and SS numbers?

NORTH BERGEN, NJ -- July 21, 2006 -- Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, authorities said.

The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker.

The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses for any state in the US, passports and resident alien cards, said state police. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. Authorities wouldn't identify the NJ hotel by name for fear it would spark retribution. The Drug Interdiction Task Force, regularly runs checks.

The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. Authorities approached the Texas brothers when they returned to the NJ hotel and questioned them separately. The Texas brothers consented to a search.

Police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.

All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street. Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 Social Security cards..

Luxury California site for Asian 'maternity tourists' shut down (one of many)
San Francisco Chronicle | March 24, 2011 | BY RAQUEL MARIA DILLON and CHRISTINA HOAG
FR Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 by artichokegrower

Authorities have closed three upscale townhouses that were operating as a maternity center for Chinese mothers paying thousands of dollars to give birth in the United States so the children would automatically gain citizenship. Police and city inspectors found seven newborns and two mothers when they closed the homes for building code violations on March 8 in San Gabriel, a suburb east of Los Angeles that is home to a large Asian population.

The women, who were Chinese and Taiwanese nationals and spoke little English, told officials their families had paid to send them to the United States to give birth, said city code compliance officer Clayton Anderson. He did not know how much was paid. The women stayed at the center before and after giving birth at local hospitals, Anderson said. (Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...

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ANALYSIS Upscale townhouses operating as a maternity center for Chinese mothers paying thousands of dollars to give birth in the US so the children would automatically gain citizenship? So why would they fork out thousands of dollars to give birth here?

B/c it's an "investment" for the lucrative future---when the US tax dollars start rolling in. Those "anchor babies" give the mother, father and extended family free entry into the US----they then all get on the US gravy train, and suckup benefits from here to eternity.

RIDING THE US GRAVY TRAIN They pay no income tax, so each year, they can file an Income Tax Return to get "EITC---earned income credit" of up to $3,200 scot-free. They qualify for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent, food stamps and no deductible, no co-pay free health care. Children get free school breakfasts and lunches and kids qualify for monthly SSI checks, by faking ADD; the elders get SSI if they fake being aged, blind or disabled; SSI qualifies them for free Medicare. Plus they don't worry about pricey items like car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance, and qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

ALL OF THAT IS COLLECTED WITH JUST ONE IDENTITY Evidence shows these people establish several identities with phony SS nos and fake documents (which they buy from document brokers for several thousand dollars).

NOTE WELL Earned Income Tax Credit is available only to immigrant workers who obtain legal work status. But the law allows immigrants to claim EITC for up to three years prior to obtaining that status. Workers simply file a tax return for the years in which they were not legally eligible to work in the US. The most widespread abuse stems from the requirement that children live with the worker for more than six months of the year. IRS does little to verify the claim. Many immigrants claim non-existent children, or claim children who they’ve left behind with relatives. Those with two or more children and income below $32,121 could get as much as $4,008. It is estimated that illegals got $22 billion.

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