Roughly 60% Of Illegal Alien Households Use Welfare Programs
Jose Nino
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About 60% of households headed by illegal aliens use at least one major form of welfare, according to an analysis carried out by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
The CIS analysis carried out by Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler demonstrated that illegal aliens and legal aliens tend to use “significantly more” welfare than native-born American citizens.
For example, roughly 59% of households headed by illegal aliens use welfare and approximately 52% of households headed by legal immigrants use at least one form of welfare. By contrast, fewer than 40% of households headed by native-born American citizens use welfare.
“… this is primarily because the American welfare system is designed in large part to help low-income families with children, which describes a large share of immigrants,” the CIS researchers highlighted.
Of note, the study discovered that immigrant-headed households use far more welfare services such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, food stamps, and Medicaid benefits than native-born American households.
“Compared to households headed by the United States-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (36 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), Medicaid (37 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (16 percent vs. 12 percent for the U.S.-born),” CIS researchers noted.
The fact is that the combination of mass migration and a welfare state are untenable. A welfare state serves as a magnet for illegal and legal migrants alike. Mass migration is a major socio-economic burden for the US.
\If this process is not contained, the US could be on the cusp of a total socio-economic breakdown within our lifetime.
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