Question:
What is your opinion of new study TX: Study Finds High Welfare Use by Immigrants?
Johnny
2011-04-05 09:26:29 UTC
Among the findings:

•The latest data available from 2009 show that in Texas 61 percent of households with children (under 18) headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) used at least one welfare program, compared to 42 percent for native households with children in the state.
•The overall use rate for welfare by Texas immigrant households with children (61 percent), is one of the highest in the nation.
•In Texas, immigrant households with children tend to use food assistance programs and Medicaid at much higher rates than native households with children. Use of cash and housing programs tends to be similar to natives.
•The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that in Texas, 54 percent of households with children headed by legal immigrants used at least one welfare program, compared to 70 percent for illegal immigrant households with children. Illegal immigrants generally receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children.
•Illegal immigrant households with children primarily use food assistance and Medicaid, making little cash or housing assistance. In contrast, legal immigrant households tend to have relatively high use rates for every type of program.
•The states where overall welfare use by immigrant households with children (legal and illegal) have the highest welfare use rates are Arizona (62 percent); Texas, California, and New York (61 percent); Pennsylvania (59 percent); Minnesota and Oregon (56 percent); and Colorado (55 percent).
•For United States as a whole, 57 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) with children (under 18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 percent for native households with children.
•The vast majority (95 percent) of immigrant households with children in the United States had at least one worker in 2009. But the low education levels of a large share of immigrant and their resulting low incomes mean that more than half of these working immigrant households with children still accessed the welfare system during 2009.
•Most new legal immigrants are barred from using some welfare for the first five years. But, this provision has only a modest impact on household use rates because most immigrants have been in the country longer than five years; the ban applies only to some programs; some states provide welfare to new immigrants on their own; by naturalizing, immigrants become eligible for all programs; and most important, the U.S.-born children of immigrants (including those of illegal immigrants) are American citizens, and are eligible for all programs at birth.


Policy Discussion: Most immigrants come to the United States to work. In fact, immigrant households with children in the United States are somewhat more likely to have at least one worker than native households with children. However, the relatively low education level of many immigrants means that a majority of working immigrant households still access the welfare system, particularly non-cash programs. About one-third of immigrant households with children are headed by someone who has not graduated high school, compared to one out of ten native households. This means giving businesses access to large numbers of less-educated workers can come at a significant cost to taxpayers.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tx-study-finds-high-welfare-use-by-immigrants-119242939.html
Five answers:
Suze
2011-04-05 11:07:17 UTC
There was a time when this country was young. Then, America depended on immigration for growth and progress.

My ancestors were grateful for the opportunity to come to America. They entered through Ellis Island LEGALLY, worked hard, paid income taxes, Learned English, Became CITIZENS and participated in communities. They contributed greatly to the growth of the USA ...all without the help of welfare, food stamps and section 8 housing.



Welcome to the new Immigrants:

They want to BE in America, NOT BE AMERICANS.
mimi
2011-04-05 19:05:51 UTC
As a Texan that is a nurse I can tell you this doesn't surprise me in the least.I bet that most of these people that come on here and take up for illegals doesn't know that the welfare system here in Texas has gone broke 4 times since the late 90's and that is why Doctors are no longer taking any kind of welfare (ie medicaid).They put in many years of schooling and then don't get paid.Not one of us that work would work for free.I work in the ER and an Dr's office and we still have to see them in the ER but we don't have to see them in a private office.Thank God, as these people think we owe them something (most want even say thank you or maybe they dont speak english).Now I have to say its not just illegals that abuse our system, we have a lot of lazy Americans but my thought is why allow more to eat off an broken system.
ibu guru
2011-04-05 16:46:48 UTC
Old news. These types of numbers have been repeated in study after study for over two decades now. When are people going to get it through their thick skulls that immigrants, especially immigration-law violators, come to the US for money. They do NOT come to work! They want money, whatever it takes to get it, including, sometimes, work. The US is not the land of the free, it is The Land of the Freebie to tens of millions of people.



Over half of the immigration-law violators in the US are non-working dependents! Up to half of claimed "US-born" babies born to illegal aliens are actually child-identity theft babies - foreign born kids whose parents have stolen birth certificates, SSN, identification. They are not only collecting welfare, Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, HUD Section 8 housing benefits, and other taxpayer-paid benes for US-born children. They are collecting all this for foreign-born illegal aliens using false, forged, stolen identification.



US immigration laws are a farce guaranteeing poverty for most immigrants AND most citizens! Illegal aliens net cost per year to US citizens has exceeded a Trillion dollars per year every year since at least 2002. Zero tolerance for immigration-law violators is the first step in regenerating US's economic viability. Legal immigration must be drastically reduced and requirements for immigrant qualifications severely tightened. Immigration has spent Americans into the the greatest debtor nation the universe has ever known.
2011-04-05 16:28:37 UTC
Not surprised one bit, that's why countries with welfare should not allow immigration because now you dont know if people will come to find jobs or come to find handouts that their own country doesn't provide, either stop immigration or stop welfare
2011-04-05 22:34:44 UTC
more whites are on welfare than anyone else.



Nuff said. Quit your b!tching, immigration costs are NEGLIGIBLE.


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