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We can only hope Congress will fund the wall system.
In this particular study, "welfare" is a pretty broad term that encompasses a whole lot of things. It's pretty meaningless here.
Illegals cannot get welfare, that's a fact.
What is the percentage of citizens that receive the same benefits?
Why does that matter?
Rather than pay for a wall, simply go after employers for hiring illegal immigrants and not make it so that only American citizens can receive welfare benefits. If they have no job or way to pay for food then they will have no incentive for coming in the first place. A wall will help but as long as there is opportunity for them they will find a way.
Why does that matter?
Depends what you consider 'welfare' Those who pay school tax may consider it welfare that they are paying for illegal's children to go to their schools.
A large share of the welfare used by immigrant households is received on behalf of their US-born children.
Also the fact that although they may technically not be eligible, they do still get it.
That's because the burden of determining lawful status in the U.S. is on the shoulders of county social services employees who have neither the legal jurisdiction nor the practical ability to determine one's immigration status. Only an immigration official or federal worker whom the Secretary of Homeland Security has authorized may determine the immigration status of a person in the country.
Typically, any proof an illegal alien provides as evidence of legal status, regardless of its fraudulent nature, will satisfy social services agencies that determine the person's benefit eligibility because an intake clerk simply cannot make the determination that someone is an illegal alien. Therefore, the law is usually overlooked and illegal aliens manage to qualify for state and local benefits.
https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/articles/james-l-seward/what-benefits-can-illegal-aliens-receive
Sorry, there is no way you will ever convince a rational person that leaving the kids of illegal immigrants out of school and running the streets to save a few bucks is a good idea. Go to the slums of India to see how well that works.
By the way, those slums are literally EVERYWHERE.
Compared to the corporate welfare we dole out, the literally HUNDREDS of BILLIONS that the Pentagon can't even account for, the massive subsidies to oil companies, the wasted money that goes to big pharmaceutical manufacturers because we're not allowed to negotiate drug prices for the American people, the money spent on feeding and schooling some kids is picayune.
But you go right ahead and continue to blame them for the bulk of our economic problems if it makes you feel better.
Think about it. It will come to you.
Thought about it and I've determined it has nothing to do with what the thread is about, so it was just a trolling statement. Thanks.
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