Study: Nearly 3-in-5 Illegal Alien Households Are on Taxpayer-Funded Welfare
Article publisher:
Breitbart
Article date:
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Article category:
National Issues
Medium
Article Body:
The CIS analysis from Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler shows illegal aliens and legal immigrants, in general, use “significantly more” welfare than native-born American citizens.
For example, about 59 percent of households headed by illegal aliens use welfare and about 52 percent of households headed by legal immigrants use at least one form of welfare. At the same time, fewer than 4-in-10 households headed by native-born American citizens use welfare.
“… this is primarily because the American welfare system is designed in large part to help low-income families with children, which describes a large share of immigrants,” CIS researchers note. In particular, the study found that immigrant-headed households use far more . . .
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