You do realize that, by law, illegal immigrants are not allowed to receive benefits such as welfare, medicare, social security, CHIP or food stamps.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b010527d6780b0
If you take the time to read the article, yes, undocumented immigrants do receive SOME handouts but very minor ones. Yes, they currently receive birthright citizenship but I doubt that is why they are risking crossing the border illegally.
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
By law yes they are not to. BUT in sanctuary cities they often DO. Plus if they have one of those anchor babies, they also get wic/chip/ebt for the kid..
Very good points. Most certainly we should try to eliminate such fraud. However, I would be willing to bet that the dollar amount of fraud perpetrated by legal citizens in this country FAR outweighs the fraud perpetrated illegals. Welfare fraud. Food stamp fraud. Social Security fraud. Identity theft. Credit card fraud. The list could go on forever.
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
Of course it would outweight it, as there's MORE legal citizens than illegals.
BUT if say there's 300 million legal citizens, contributing to 3 billion in fraud, that equates to 10 dollars of fraud Per legal citizen.
If there's 20 million illegals, contributing to 1 billion in fraud, that's 50 dollars of fraud per illegal. SO by the actual amount, YES they will have less fraud. BUT BY the percentage, they commit more.
From one site i saw, a Judicial watch report, showed that illegal aliens living in LA COUNTY alone, pull in 37 MILLION IN welfare and food stamps, over 40% of which got it via using forged/stolen SSNs, in just ONE MONTH.
Add to that, as per a GAO report, 1.1 Billion in welfare and foodstamps were spent on illegal aliens, because of anchor babies, THAT ON ITS OWN is a reason to end the whole anchor baby scheme..
President Trump is saying that they are already contracting for large tents to house any refugees that come accross, and the refugees will be held in these facilities untill their final immigration status is resolved.
Originally Posted by Jackie S
If we don't let them in, we don't need to spend the money to HOUSE them in tents or other facilities though.