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It seems as many believe that illegal immigrants to the US contribute nothing and are just takers of our welfare system. Read the attached link from CNN Money from 2014.
5 immigration myths debunked - Nov. 20, 2014
This excerpt from Politifact gives some more information, "Another theme we've seen: that illegal immigrants are freeloaders taking advantage of federal welfare programs.
Those types of charges are often repeated in anonymous chain e-mails, on blogs and Facebook.
"More than 43 percent of all food stamps are given to illegals," said a typical claim, this one from a Facebook post promoting "10 Illegal Alien Facts."
When PolitiFact researched the numbers, though, we found the claim ridiculously false and rated it Pants on Fire. About 46.4 million people receive food stamps, so 43 percent of that number would be just under 20 million. That significantly exceeds estimates for how many illegal immigrants are in the country. The Pew Hispanic Center put the number at 11.2 million in 2010.
On top of that, most social welfare programs bar illegal immigrants from receiving benefits and require proof of immigration status. That includes food stamps, as well as cash welfare assistance, Medicaid, and even the new health care law.
It's true that some children of illegal immigrants qualify for benefits if they were born in the United States and are citizens. (Critics derisively call them "anchor babies.") But there aren't nearly enough of those types of children -- an estimated 4 million -- to account for 43 percent of food stamp recipients.
Another claim is that illegal immigrants dominate public housing run by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department, or HUD. "Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties in the U.S. are illegals," the Facebook post said.
That statement too earned a Pants on Fire, because it would require half of all illegal immigrants in the country to live in that housing. And again, HUD requires proof of legal status.
Frank Sharry, executive director of the pro-immigration group America's Voice, said that these kinds of anonymous attacks aren't typical of the public's views of illegal immigrants, but they are out there.
"Polling shows that attitudes toward immigration are improving. But the people who don’t like it are really nasty," he said. "The haters have gotten more intense."
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You will see that they do pay into our Social Security and most will never collect from it. You will see that illegal immigrants do not qualify for food stamps - unless they have an American born child. You will see they do not take jobs from American workers.
Do some Googling research and you will find that the illegal immigrants are not a drain on our welfare system.