You hear it all the time.
The illegals do the work no one else is willing to do for the wages offered.
They do the work no one else will do.
They are hardworking people.
Citizens cannot have both welfare and a job. Illegals can and do.
Illegals avoid the payroll tax and collect cash under the table. Then they go to the welfare office and for some unknown reason they are able to collect welfare even though they are not citizens.
They can receive welfare on behalf of a US born baby. Anchor babies get them a visa and welfare. But they can still work jobs for cash.
Several million illegal immigrants also have work authorization (e.g. DACA, TPS, and some asylum applicants) allowing receipt of the EITC.
https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrants-and-USBorn
“54 percent of households headed by immigrants — naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants — used one or more major welfare program. This compares to 39 percent for U.S.-born households.”
If the government knows where they are and who they are and that they are illegal, why are they giving them welfare instead of deporting them? Well in most cases they simply lie which is not hard to do and isn’t policed. They can lie to the employer and say they are illegal when they are not so they can get cash under the table but still go collect welfare.
Or they can be illegal and still get state welfare and welfare like SNAP and emergency care. They will call an ambulance and go to the ER even though it is not an emergency because that care is covered.
Then we have “asylum” seekers who get a whole new package of benefits, who are not really asylum seekers. They qualify as such because all they need to do is answer some multiple choice questions. And they know what answers they have to choose and it doesn’t have to be true.
Tom Homan can’t come fast enoguh
Share this post