A new report based on Census data has revealed that legal immigrant households make up for 75 percent of immigrant welfare use. It also revealed that 72 percent of families headed by documented immigrants and 87 percent of families headed by undocumented immigrants utilize social welfare programs, an apparent indication that immigrants come to America to profit off of txpayer-funded benefits like health care, subsidized food and cash.
Particularly, when broken down by category, the Center for Immigration Studies found that 14 percent of documented immigrant households access cash programs compared to 10 percent of native-born Americans, 39 percent of documented households use Medicaid compared to native-born Americans at 23 percent and, lastly, 36 percent of documented households use food programs compared to native-born Americans at 22 percent.
A similar trend was observed with families headed by undocumented immigrants who received benefits from their children who were born in the U.S. Fifty-seven percent of illegal immigrant households use food programs as opposed to 22 percent of native-born Americans, while Medicaid use is at 51 percent compared to the native-household use of 23 percent, according to Breitbart.
Additionally, the CIS found that immigrant families with one or more children use welfare far more than "native" American families.
The report indicates that despite the passing of the 1996 welfare reform law, which was supposed to limit immigrant access to the welfare system, households headed by legal immigrants have statistically higher use of welfare than native households overall, as well as for cash and food programs, according to the Washington Examiner.
These figures shed light on the political inclinations of immigrants, as recent surveys have shown immigrants tend to prefer big government policies.
The Center's director of research and the author of the report, Steven Camarota, noted that these findings are opposite of what should occur since "if one assumes that legal immigration is supposed to benefit the country, then immigrants allowed into the country should have much lower rates of welfare use than natives. However, our best estimate is that nearly half (49 percent) of households headed by legal immigrants used at least one welfare program in 2012."
The full report can be read HERE.
