How can illegal immigrants cost taxpayers anything when they aren't eligible for welfare?

Question

Under federal law, illegal immigrants aren't eligible for TANF, WIC, food stamps, or other forms of federally-funded assistance. They also can't get social security, medicare or medicaid. So someone please explain why they cost taxpayers so much?

I asked a simple question, please don't copy and paste long lectures on everything that they do.

Answer 1

Answer: Claiming anchor babies they do infact get food stamps, wic, tanf et.all.
Their overuse of emergency room service has hospitals closing under the fiscal weight of their theft...Those"12 million" illegals comprise 28% of the federal prison population...
They fraudulently file for 500 million in federal tax returns that the IRS can account for, yet not go after to retrieve.
They started off as illegal invading criminal aliens and have been more of a burden each and every day they are allowed to stay!

Answer 2

The children they give birth to the second they cross the border can as they automatically become us citzens.The cost of the child birth is picked up by us and so is everytime an illegal goes to the hospital because hospitals can't refuse patients and are federally subsidized for that.There are many many ways illegals cost us lower wages and lower taxes because of pressure they put in the job market.Also lost revenue from the jobs they take illegally with the money sent out of country.What it cost to house them in jail for immigration charges and all the other crimes they commit such as drug smuggling ,auto theft, burglary ,murder and rape.Also with the cost to deport them, it's easy to see that in the end the illegals cost far more than there worth.With a little thinking I'm sure you can come up with many more legitimate reasons why illegals aren't good for America or mexico.

Answer 3

Here's something for you to "google". Hope it isn't too long for you.

A 2004 study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that illegal immigrants alone cost the federal government $26.3 billion per year in services but pay only about $16 billion in taxes, creating a federal deficit (taxes minus services) of more than $10 billion ANNUALLY.

FAIR says some of the largest federal costs associated with illegal immigrants are for Medicaid (federal paid health care) and food assistance programs such as food stamps.

These are expenses NOT associated with welfare.

And your response is...?

Answer 4

I unquestionably have never been to la. and that i do no longer opt for to pass to L.A. by using fact i'm properly attentive to the above guidance you recite, having been widely examine on immigration themes for years now. i'd be the 1st to declare around up each Hispanic (unlawful alien or no longer) besides as each Asian and deliver them back to the place they got here from.

Answer 5

Well education for starters, with an estimated $10,000 per child per year - that adds up and also as someone else pointed out with a baby born here they are entitled to all citizens rights through the child(ren), hospital emergency rooms are taking big losses which is passed on to the taxpayers. Those are just the area's that we all agree on.

Answer 6

What most people don't realize is that once the Illegal has a child in the US they qualify for every one of these programs. And according to Federal Law now, they can't be refused the programs. So thinking they are able to get this is just wrong. Follow some around a grocery store on of these days and you'll find out for yourself.

Answer 7

The main problem I've seen is that, because they usually can't get health insurance, they have to go to hospital emergency rooms for care, often overburdening the hospital, which then has to absorb the cost of their care. The children of illegal immigrants often attend school, when schools are overcrowded--especially since most immigrants want their children to do better than they have, and thus to have good educations. The latter one doesn't bother me as much as the former (not them getting health care--human rights, after all; we're not talking plastic surgery!--but the hospitals having to absorb all the costs). An educated person is more likely to be a boon to society than an uneducated person, and there's an increasing number of childless adults like myself who pay taxes despite not having children to take advantage of those taxes by attending school.

Answer 8

Here in Florida you have to prove you're here legally and have a valid SSN. However, they just started doing this last summer. So before last year they got food stamps, welfare, and medicaid. Their anchor babies still qualify for all these things because they're "legal".

Answer 9

If you belive the newspapers, employment officers in the Ministry were told to let them have National Insurance cards without question. Once they have these they are eligable
Sucker UK once again

Answer 10

You are misinformed many government assistance program does not verify legality of persons id's. Simply by having fake Id's the are able to get government assistance. No verifications are done. By having given birth in US they are eligible for assistance.