Illegals often live in families with legal immigrants and citizens. Legal adult immigrants can be on Medicaid and SSI. Anchor babies can be on CHIPS, Kidcare, Peachcare or whatever your state calls it.
Of all demograaphic groups, those of Mexican ancestry have the lowest participation rate in welfare programs for which they qualify. Social workers are constantly having seminars on : How to reach the underserved .... translated how do we convince Mexicans to discard that chauvinism that says the man should provide and letting the government do it is an attack on his masculinity. Usually chauvinism is labeled a European cancer on the Noble Savages of the New World.
The last time any welfare workers came out here to offer government “help” to us poor, stupid rural deplorables was in 2003-they booked our community center bldg on a Saturday afternoon to give their sales pitch on everything “free” from free child care-even though most moms out here homeschool and work a home based business-to foodstamps/EBT cards and government cheese-even though everyone grows, sells and barters fresh veggies, eggs, dairy-and grass fed meat is sold at several butcher shops/locker plants-they insulted people by bringing a translator-everyone speaks English and most of us speak Spanish as a 2nd language-they only got about 10-12 people who left without signing up for anything, so they wasted their time. They never came back, either...