63 % of Non-Citizen Households Receive Welfare -
In the wake of expected changes by the Trump Administration to
the “public charge” rules for non-citizens, The Washington Times today brought attention to a new report
by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) that found “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.”
There are 4.7 million non-citizen household which access a
welfare program. Of these households, 93 percent, or 4.4 million, contain at
least one employed person. This means that much of the use of welfare by
non-citizens, as is true of citizens, is due to workers earning wages that do
not allow them to support their households without being supplement by
taxpayer-funded assistance programs.
CIS analyzed data from the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and
Program Participation (SIPP), a survey specifically designed to measure welfare
use. The data allows researchers to distinguish between households headed by
citizens and those headed by non-citizens.
Among the CIS findings:
In 2014, 63% of households headed by a non-citizen reported
using at least one welfare program, compared to 35% of native-headed
households. If the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a cash payment available to
working individuals, is excluded, welfare use is 58% for non-citizen households
and 30% for citizen households.
45% of non-citizen households use food assistance programs (21%
for natives), and 50% of non-citizen households use Medicaid (23% for natives).
While illegal aliens are barred by federal law from receiving
welfare benefits, some states do allow it, and households headed by illegal
aliens may legally receive certain benefits if that household contains a U.S.
citizen child.
The full CIS report can be found here.
Comments
The cost of providing
tax subsidies to Non-Citizens was $638 billion in 2015. This goes on our
National Debt credit card and is a total scam. These tax subsidies need to be
repealed. 70% of immigrants who have been in the US over 10 years are on
welfare.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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