DC: The average immigrant household draws more than $6,000 from the welfare system in a year, costing U.S. taxpayers 41 percent more than people born in the country, a new study finds.
Immigrants with low education levels and higher numbers of children tend to use up the most benefits, according to the analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which found immigrant families consume $6,234 a year on average. The benefits come in the form of cash payments, food, Medicaid and housing.
Ooh hoo, I wanna be like you-hoo, I want to take what you worked for, and give it to my self .
Hoo-oo.
Take that money from the transfers going South
I’m a little confused. Does the $6K+ per immigrant family include those families that take no government benefits? If that’s the case then if 51% of immigrants have at least one benefit (from the article) then the average of those families taking benefits gets closer to $13K which makes more sense. The number $6234 seems awfully low for a family taking benefits. I understand that a family may only be taking food stamps but still…
It’s been a while since I received a Social Security benefits statement that lets you know how much you can expect to receive if you retire at such and such an age, but a friend of mind recently received hers, and she said it’s $200 less per month than it was last time she received it.
So it looks like our SS funds are being stolen to pay for POS illegals being rammed down our throat and then making us support them with our tax dollars and retirement funds.
scr_north, How about I put $6234 into your checking account every year, if you’re illegal? Would you question why I didn’t put an additional $6766 into your account?
See, the goobermint even fcuks those it represents!
http://cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011
Immigrant households with children used welfare programs at consistently higher rates than natives, even before the current recession. In 2001, 50 percent of all immigrant households with children used at least one welfare program, compared to 32 percent for natives.
Households with children with the highest welfare use rates are those headed by immigrants from the Dominican Republic (82 percent), Mexico and Guatemala (75 percent), and Ecuador (70 percent). Those with the lowest use rates are from the United Kingdom (7 percent), India (19 percent), Canada (23 percent), and Korea (25 percent).