As there are so many illegals in the welfare line, don't you think?

Question

it would be a great place to start rounding them up.

Yes, I am aware of the NY plan.

Answer 1

why are you so worried about the welfare lines? oh thats right you must be in it. @_@
get a life.

Answer 2

I don't think too many " illegals " are standing in Welfare lines. Just for the pure fact illegals can't get foodstamps etc. I think many people see LEGAL citizens of a certain culture and ASSUME they're illegal.

To date I haven't seen any GOVERNMENT statistics showing the amount that the illegals are supposedly getting. I have seen many postings from certain groups that have an agenda who post this type of misinformation so be very leery about your sources.

Answer 3

I don't know how many there are in the welfare lines. But if you have been paying attention, the License Bureau in New York state is calling INS whenever an illegal immigrant comes in to get his new license that the Governor of NY said they could have.

Answer 4

Yes. And the schools. And the emergency rooms. And on the job. Root them out everywhere.

Answer 5

Just to bring the FACTS to the table, according to the 2006 "INS/FBI statistics on Undoc. immigrants", :

-43% of all food stamps were issued to illegal aliens
-41% of all unemployment cks were issued to illegal aliens
-58% of all WELFARE payments were to ILLEGAL ALIENS
-62% of illegals are working for cash and NOT PAYING TAXES

So yes, I think the gov't handouts would be a good place to start with "immigration reform"

To "dog Tricks" - check out the report I have listed, it will open your eyes... and yes they do get food stamps and welfare. I am pretty sure the FBI and INS dont have an "agenda".

Answer 6

The Cost of Immigration






Most immigrants are poor; indeed, that is why they come here. Through present immigration policy, we are admitting over one million mostly poor people into our society every year —a society that is already challenged to deal with the poverty of its natives.

Costs Table from the October 1996 Huddle Study
Program (amounts in billion $s) Legal Illegal Total
Public Education K-12 $14.38 $5.85 $20.23
Public Higher Education $5.55 $0.71 $6.26
ESL and Bilingual Education $2.82 $1.22 $4.04
Food Stamps $2.81 $0.85 $3.66
AFDC $2.71 $0.50 $3.21
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) $2.76 n/a $2.76
Housing $2.37 $0.61 $2.98
Social Security $21.92 $3.61 $25.53
Earned Income Tax Credit $3.69 $0.68 $4.37
Medicaid $11.43 $3.12 $14.55
Medicare A and B $5.49 $0.58 $6.07
Criminal Justice and Corrections $2.32 $0.76 $3.08
Local Government $15.32 $5.00 $20.32
Other Programs $18.41 $9.25 $27.66
Total Costs $111.98 $32.74 $144.70
Less Taxes Paid $82.38 $12.59 $94.97
Net Costs of Direct Services $29.60 $20.16 $49.76
Displacement Costs $10.96 $4.28 $15.24
All Net Costs $40.56 $24.44 $65.00
Percent of Net Costs 62.4% 37.6% 100%

The cost of immigration to our society is enormous. The most recent estimate places the net cost of post-1969 immigrants at $61 billion in 2000 alone ($35 billion from legal immigrants and $26 billion from illegal immigrants).1 This is after immigrants’ contribution in taxes has been subtracted. As high as the cost is now, the rising tide of immigration will lift it even higher in years to come. By the end of 2002, the annual net cost of immigration will have risen $66 billion.2

The Net National Costs of Immigration: Fiscal Effects of Welfare Restorations to Legal Immigrants, Donald Huddle, Rice University, 1997.
Huddle, ibid.
Immigration and the Welfare State, George Borjas and Lynette Hilton, Working Paper Series #5372, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 1995.
Borjas, ibid.
For example, a 1994 Urban Institute study, Migration and Immigrants: Setting the Record Straight, found that immigration created a surplus of $29 billion annually, but only after it excluded from its calculations all immigrants from Mexico, Cambodia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the former USSR, and Vietnam (which constitute over 40 percent of the immigrant population).
Arizona Star, June 26, 2003

Answer 7

Great idea and I hope ICE is aware of all the freebie stations where they can be found. Less effort in rounding them up!

Answer 8

Absolutely. Today would be a great day to start that program!

Answer 9

mmm illegals really dont go into welfare lines they like to stay in the country
anyways about 90% of illegals come to america to work hard for a living other than thousands of american citizens that sit on their *** and live off others taxes and blame illegals take their welfare money.

Answer 10

Just to tell you something illegals
aren't the only ones in
line some of our fellow
American citizens are in
that line too and by the
way most of them are citizens
because those illegals we should
be "rounding up" are working their A$$es
of selling tamales, selling ice cream
or any other job so doint quickly assume
that illegals are lazy they actually come here
to work beileve it or not.