Posted on 04/09/2024 2:32:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
You clearly have never been to Odessa Ukraine. Paradise on earth.
Brutal but true.
We need skilled labor. The trades are fine. But what we’re importing is good for manual unskilled labor only. On top of that is the criminal element, and finally those that are ill and become a burden on the system.
Life is brutal and Americans have become soft because we’ve had it well for so long. But the illegal and in part even legal immigration is part of this nations problem.
We need to be FAR-FAR more selective in who we let in and let become citizens.
All of them. Once you get qualified for any benefit such as SNAP or TANF, etc., the system is set up to virtually automatically qualify you for other federal and state benefits.
A perfunctory process where any one of the programs puts you in the ‘approved’ group for any of the rest.
https://cis.org/Welfare-Use-Immigrant-and-Native-Households
Welfare Use by Immigrant and Native Households
An Analysis of Medicaid, Cash, Food, and Housing Programs
By Steven A. Camarota September 2015
This study is the first in recent years to examine immigrant (legal and illegal) and native welfare use using the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). While its complexity makes it difficult to use, the survey is widely regarded as providing the most accurate picture of welfare participation. The SIPP shows immigrant households use welfare at significantly higher rates than native households, even higher than indicated by other Census surveys.
In 2012, 51 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal or illegal) reported that they used at least one welfare program during the year, compared to 30 percent of native households. Welfare in this study includes Medicaid and cash, food, and housing programs.
Welfare use is high for both new arrivals and well-established immigrants. Of households headed by immigrants who have been in the country for more than two decades, 48 percent access welfare.
No single program explains immigrants’ higher overall welfare use. For example, not counting subsidized school lunch, welfare use is still 46 percent for immigrants and 28 percent for natives. Not counting Medicaid, welfare use is 44 percent for immigrants and 26 percent for natives.
Immigrant households have much higher use of food programs (40 percent vs. 22 percent for natives) and Medicaid (42 percent vs. 23 percent). Immigrant use of cash programs is somewhat higher than natives (12 percent vs. 10 percent) and use of housing programs is similar to natives.
Welfare use varies among immigrant groups. Households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico (73 percent), the Caribbean (51 percent), and Africa (48 percent) have the highest overall welfare use. Those from East Asia (32 percent), Europe (26 percent), and South Asia (17 percent) have the lowest.
Many immigrants struggle to support their children, and a large share of welfare is received on behalf of U.S.-born children. However, even immigrant households without children have significantly higher welfare use than native households without children — 30 percent vs. 20 percent.
The welfare system is designed to help low-income workers, especially those with children, and this describes many immigrant households. In 2012, 51 percent of immigrant households with one or more workers accessed one or more welfare programs, as did 28 percent of working native households.
The large share of immigrants with low levels of education and resulting low incomes partly explains their high use rates. In 2012, 76 percent of households headed by an immigrant who had not graduated high school used one or more welfare programs, as did 63 percent of households headed by an immigrant with only a high school education.
The high rates of immigrant welfare use are not entirely explained by their lower education levels. Households headed by college-educated immigrants have significantly higher welfare use than households headed by college-educated natives — 26 percent vs. 13 percent.
In the four top immigrant-receiving states, use of welfare by immigrant households is significantly higher than that of native households: California (55 percent vs. 30 percent), New York (59 percent vs. 33 percent), Texas (57 percent vs. 34 percent), and Florida (42 percent vs. 28 percent).
Illegal immigrants are included in the SIPP. In a forthcoming report, we will estimate welfare use for immigrants by legal status. However, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of immigrant households using welfare are headed by legal immigrants.
Most new legal immigrants are barred from welfare programs when they first arrive, and illegal immigrants are barred as well. But the ban applies to only some programs; most legal immigrants have been in the country long enough to qualify for at least some programs and the bar often does not apply to children; states often provide welfare to new immigrants on their own; naturalizing makes immigrants eligible for all programs; and, most important, immigrants (including illegal immigrants) can receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth.
The heavy use of welfare by less-educated immigrants has three important policy implications: 1) prior research indicates that illegal immigrants are overwhelmingly less-educated, so allowing them to stay in the country creates significant welfare costs; 2) by admitting large numbers of less-educated immigrants to join their relatives, the legal immigration system brings in many immigrants who are likely to access the welfare system; and 3) proposals to allow in more less-educated immigrants to fill low-wage jobs would create significant welfare costs.
Vilsak testified that he knows illegals are receiving benefits but it is up to the states to police these benefits. The states do not have the resources to verify the information the clients provide. Tom said they will have to come up with the money. )more government jobs)
Immigrants specifically CAN’T get welfare. They are banned from it for ten years!
Coming in legally, that is.
But do they get it anyway?
Anyone coming legally has to have a sponsor that underwrites everything for the immigrant.
This is to assure no immigrant is a burden.
No one was giving them anything.
It didn't exist. They wouldn't have taken it anyway.
They fought in this nations wars from The Civil War to Korea.
We're now losing our sovereignty, our national identity, our culture,to an unassimilating , pugnacious and violent horde of arrogant beggars and thieves.
Bump
You must be very proud of your ancestors. I never knew any of my grandparents. They were all gone by the time I was born in 1947. My father was born in Holland, and came here through Ellis Island with his two brothers, and their parents in 1913. My mother came here as a little girl from Canada with her divorced mother and only brother. Growing up, I always thought I was a first generation American. It wasn't until my mother died in 1990, that I traveled to Canada to find out more about her side of the family. I met cousins I never knew I had, and discovered that her ancestors had already arrived in America from England in the late 1600's, early 1700's, and that my 5th great-grandfather served in a NY County militia during the Revolutionary War, and is listed in the D.A.R. Patriot index. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to find any of it out. She always said we had no relatives, but she would have been shocked to find out just how far back her family goes, and the various countries it is connected to.
Government against its own people is what I see
Millions of millions of Americans should cross the Southern Border and demand the same benefits the illegals get.
Haitians I agree with.
Ask Not What Free Benefits Illegal Aliens Get Handed To Them In The USA,
Ask What Benefit The USA Gets From Another 10 Million Freeloading Illegal Aliens!
When our own government gives greater benefits to illegal alien criminals than to military vets and homeless citizens IT IS NOT BY ACCIDENT!!!!!
IT IS INTENTIONAL !!!!!
IT IS INTENTIONAL !!!!!
IT IS INTENTIONAL !!!!!
IT IS INTENTIONAL !!!!!
IT IS INTENTIONAL !!!!!
I call BS on this. I can take you any of our local stores and you can see them in line. They dont speak a word of english
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