As the mainstream media focuses on a study that reveals a sharp decline in the nation’s illegal immigrant population, monthly welfare payments to children of undocumented aliens increased to $52 million in one U.S. county alone.
The hoopla surrounding last week’s news that the annual flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. dropped by two-thirds in the past decade overlooked an important matter; the cost of educating, incarcerating and medically treating illegal aliens hasn’t decreased along with it, but rather skyrocketed to the tune of tens of billions of dollars annually.
Those figures don’t even include the extra millions that local municipalities dish out on welfare payments to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, commonly known as anchor babies. In Los Angeles County alone that figure increased by nearly $4 million in the last year, sticking taxpayers with a whopping $52 million tab to provide illegal immigrants’ offspring with food stamps and other welfare benefits for just one month.
That means the nation’s most populous county, in the midst of a dire financial crisis, will spend more than $600 million this year to provide families headed by illegal immigrants with welfare benefits. In each of the past two years Los Angeles County taxpayers have spent about half a billion dollars just to cover the welfare and food-stamp costs of illegal immigrants. Additionally, the county spends $550 million on public safety and nearly $500 million on healthcare for illegal aliens.
About a quarter of the county’s welfare and food stamp issuances go to parents who reside in the United States illegally and collect benefits for their anchor babies, according to the figures from L.A. County’s Department of Social Services. Nationwide, Americans pay around $22 billion annually to provide illegal immigrants with welfare perks that include food assistance programs such as free school lunches in public schools, food stamps and a nutritional program (known as WIC) for low-income women and their children.
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Figures.
I live on a fixed salary below the poverty line, with my kids, in need of medical and dental, and have been told no by the government for everything from housing to food stamps. So much for being a vet it seems. These people come here illegally and get everything handed to them without even paying a single penny in taxes.
It isn't fair!
On a better note:
L'shanah tovah tikatev v'taihatem!
(May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.)
Thank you for the the note on having a good year, Findalis. means quite a bit to me.
I know what you mean. We get by
on my disability and part time
job, which is in funding trouble.
That may be a future post. Just
have to wait and see how it all
shakes out. I have not been to
the dentist in three years,
and the same for my wife. My glaases are so far off I can
only read clearly by closing
my left eye. We still have an 18
and 14 year old at home so we make
sure they come first. My wife is
on her last year of college and
prayerfully seeking that she will
be able to find work when she
gets done. Please know that if I could help out I truly would.
Back at you with prayers for you
and your family:
L'shanah tovah tikatev v'taihatem!
(May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.)
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