Are illegals drawn to U.S because of all the freebies our country offers?

Question

college grants,welfare, food stamps, medical, section 8 housing, low interest first time buyers mortgages among many other government programs.

Ok, people stop the name calling! Where I live in CA. the illegal women flood the welfare office, free clinics, free clothing drives, and lie to attend college. So stop the stupid pro illegal crap and get real .They are pumping our systems dry.

Ok, Miriam enough with the untruth! I know for a fact that all of the things I listed they are getting from our government. Please don't pretend that you guys don't know they use phony id as well all means necessary to get the freebies they want.

Read Patroit's answer under the question
What are you willing to do personally to stop illegal immigration and why have you not done it?
and get the facts from the L.A. times.

Answer 1

From the L.A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County ( L.A. County has 10.2 million people)
are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are
predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien
Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers
are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles
are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English.
3.9 million speak Spanish.
(There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County).
(All the above data from the Los Angeles Times)
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Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops,
but 29% are on welfare.
Over 70% of the United States' annual population growth
(and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York )
results from immigration.
The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was,
(after subtracting taxes immigrants pay), a NET $70 BILLION/
year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University ]. The lifetime
fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average
adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE number.
29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

Answer 2

From what I've seen of the education of the illegal Mexicans flooding into California every hour, I highly doubt that college grants are much of a lure. But as for all the rest, of course it is. Mexico is a toilet, the Mexican government has failed, and there really shouldn't even be a Mexico any more. There is no good reason to call that a country, the people have runied it and now they hear there is free money in America so they load up their kids and make the run for the border.

Answer 3

They problem here isn't how hard the work. So they work hard already! They are using up the tax dollars of US citizens and the great work habits they offer go to the wealthy. It' off the back of one citizen who actually needs that money to be there in old age or sickness or whatever.
The illegals HAVE destroyed, as a result of their use of US infrstructure. I know personaly of many closed hospitals due to this. 100,000 births to illegal immigrants occurred last year in California. A chop job birth is rougly $10K. A complicated deal can easily go to $30K or more. So much more goes on. Yes the illegals make money for the wealthy but it doesn't fall into the well being of the middle class Americans ...who are the majority.
Sure they come up here fro freebies. They come to work for $$$$ to go back to Mexico. Most don't want to live here but as Mexification takes place that too will change. Why go back to hog heaven when you can live off the American middleclass for a while? That's that haps. And we all let em' (the weatlhy Americans mostly) get away with this. The illegals are the bullets. The guns are being held by the wealthy, upperclass CEO's and large companies.
Does kinda make you think? Is a salary of 10-20 BILLION dollars enough to live on? Ha! These are the people we are playing with.
There will never be enough money for these kinds of people.
This is Democracy hard a work.

Answer 4

sure on the community point, and no on the federal point. Illegals working at payroll jobs pay into social protection taxes utilising fraudulent I.D's. the federal government collects this funds yet won't in any respect would desire to pay it out. for this reason the present difficulty has been accepted to exist, and can't replace. The States and native governments pay for courses that illegals use, yet don't get reimbursed through the federal government. some business enterprise proprietors use decrease priced unlawful hard work. some persons pay larger scientific wellbeing coverage, motor vehicle coverage because of the fact of illegals, and colleges go through, on the same time as different persons hire unlawful immigrants as nannies, maids, landscapers, and so forth.

Answer 5

I take it you must mean immigrants and not illegals..

I live in Miami and one of the things that i noticed when i first moved there was the immigration. Unfortunately I see many immigrants come to the city they ride around is Benz, owning homes and also get the benefits of low income families, in such a short period of time.

The sad part is the there are people who are natural born citizens (black/white/whatever) who's been working hard, trying to get the same thing for years.

Please don't thing that I'm not for helping anyone who comes to this country to get on their feet. I just think that the government tends to help everyone else before they 'take care of home'. There should be programs that help the hard working people who are natural citizen too.

I hope i didn't come off sounding bitter

Answer 6

obviously.. If the govt would stop giving them these things there would be nearly as many here. I wish I had a country I could move to and work TAX free, buy a house for virtually nothing, go to college free (my student loan balance is ridiculous and I still have at least 4 years to go), free food, housing, etc on top of being able to have 15 kids and not have to pay any of the hospital bills, you bet i would.. My mom goes to the hospital and for 1 ER visit she gets a $4000 bill..she has worked her whole life and is now on disability..that bill is after medicare pays. I know US citizens who get $30 in food stamps and have to report every time they fart...and they pay taxes.. We have one of the biggest hospitals in this area that is going to shut down in 2007 because of all the money they have lost on illegals using their service and not paying..

Answer 7

THEY are not hard workers, one works out of a family of ten, and he stays away because he can't stand his homelife. If they were not abusing the system then how come there is a rash off stolen sosial secuity numbers. these number belong to children most of the time and whatever the crooked minions do to that number stays with it forever. You fall backs from the 60's and 70's give it up flower power is wilting even though it is and always been plastic. We have to roll back the 65 immigration bill that allowed to many in. go braid your hair and sing com biya get the heck out of the feely part of government. Its a hard thing to do but try to think.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

I think they come to our country for our freedom.

Their Parents work for less money, just to help their kids get an experienced they never got. There's alot of crime in Mexico ( and here too ) But I dont think they would come here all for the stuff you mentioned. The stuff you mentioned those help, in a good way.
We are people, Helping Immagrants because they're ppl like us, we're all created equal, so why not treat others, like we treat ourselves, that's why there's alot of freebees like lower costs, foodstamps, etc....

Answer 10

more to do with better wages because US corporations have been so succesful at driving down wages in countries such as mexico. since goods, capital, information and the rich can cross borders freely, it is only just that the poor be allowed to escape exploitation by crossing the same borders..