Do immigrants pay more taxes per capita than American-born citizens & get less welfare?

Question

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba400/
Immigrants, Welfare, and Work

According to this study, immigrants, both legal & illegal, pay more in taxes than they get in welfare.

However, this study is 5 years old. The one immigrant group that receives more than they give is the elderly. The family reunification preference was increasing the proportion of elderly immigrants. I think we need open borders, but no old-age pensions for immigrants. If they want to re-unify with their famililes, let their families support them.

ganjaman -

29% of illegals are on welfare?
Illegal aliens are not eligible for welfare.

You need to show a link to your source
of this incredible information.

Ganjaman - your source was not the L.A Times. Your source was a website that CLAIMED they got their "facts" from the L.A. Times. Here is a link from the real L.A. Times debunking that scam:
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2007/02/some_memes_neve.html
"Despite our sound debunking last spring of ten "facts" on immigration sourced to The Times, the list still makes the occasional blog post and e-mail round, and, as it did last month, sometimes ends up in the inbox of a Times editor. New and just as wrong "facts" and assorted rants (worrying, say, about the Emperor of Japan taking advantage of affirmative action programs) have glommed on to the original list of ten, meaning it's time for myth-busting, round two."

Here is a link to the scam website which falsely claimed to be getting info from the L. A. Times:
http://www.rense.com/general75/inva.htm

Answer 1

Immigrants tax rate is the same as yours and mine. so they should be paying in more than they collect. As a Native American I wish all you immigrants would go back to once you came.

Answer 2

It is illegal immigrants who don't pay taxes that sort of messes the system up. Did you account for them?

Answer 3

isn't the whole thing more of a safety issue than financial? sure, financially it is a pain in the behind, but after 9/11 people started to realize just how vulnerable we were to terrorists walking across the boarder. it is a safety issue first

Answer 4

*ahem*

Here are some statistics from the Los Angeles Times:

40 percent of all workers are working for cash and not paying taxes. Why would they want to be legal and pay taxes? They would be able to start bringing the rest of their families to the USA.

75 percent of people on L.A.'s most-wanted list are illegal aliens.

Over two-thirds of all births are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by the taxpayers.

Nearly 25 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are here illegally.

Over 300,000 illegals are living in garages.

The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegals from south of the border.

Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

Of the 10 million people in Los Angeles County, 5.1 million speak English and 3.9 million speak Spanish.

21 radio stations in Los Angeles are Spanish speaking.

More statistics:

Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops but 29 percent are on welfare.

Over 70 percent of the U.S. annual population growth (over 90 percent of California, Florida and New York) are from immigration.

29 percent of inmates in the federal prisons are illegal aliens.

The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a negative.

They also send between about $15 billion back to Mexico to assist their families and prop up the corrupt Mexican government that keeps most of its citizens in poverty. How about a revolt in their own country!

A new figure from yesterday: It cost Los Angeles $276 million in welfare costs for 100,000 children of illegal aliens.



Nice try, don't you have some of that kool-aid to drink before going to that La-Raza rally?

Answer 5

Less welfare its probably true because its kind of hard for them to get welfare. They do pay more taxes because they never receive a return.