Research on Los Angeles immigrants by Harvard University scholar George J. Borjas shows that 40.1 percent of immigrant families with non-citizen heads of household receive welfare, compared with 12.7 percent of households with native-born heads.
So... it's just as I suspected, it's not ILLEGAL immigrants that get welfare... it's just the scary brown people with Spanish last names that the wingnuts hate so much.
Hank, the reason people take issue with your penchant for C&P is because you so often utilize wingnut hate blogs... peddlin' baseless propaganda... like you did this time.
Although illegal aliens are not generally eligible to collect public welfare benefits, an illegal alien may receive benefits under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Food Stamps programs on behalf of his or her U.S. citizen child. (Any child born in the United States is considered a U.S. citizen, regardless of the parents' immigration status.) A 1997 General Accounting Office (GAO) report determined that in 1995 households headed by illegal aliens received a total of $700 million in AFDC benefits and $430 million in Food Stamps.
There really is a problem with this, it isn't just hype. It isn't just Mexican immigrants, but on the west coast and Texas, mexicans make up a large majority of illegals.
It's true, look it up.
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