57% of Immigrants in America are on Public Assistance

Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 06:52 PM

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At the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island, is the plaque that says: Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses. OK, enough already, we have all of them we can use.

The shocking statistics tell a tale of a failing immigration system, when 57% of immigrants with children in America, legal and illegal, are on some sort of public assistance. Where's the benefit of this for American citizens?

States all over America are staggering under the enormous debt of entitlements and part of that debt is incurred by massive waves of immigrants, up to 20 million illegal aliens are included in this.

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/05/poverty-immigrating-to-americas-welfare-state/

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/04/study-70-of-texas-illegal-immigrant-families-receive-welfare/

http://www.disabled-world.com/news/america/immigrants.php

But is there something sinister underlying this wave of immigrants, who are burdening our welfare systems? Some say it seems to be aided and abetted by political leaders who look upon these immigrants on the dole as huge voter blocs who will vote for the politicians who give them the most benefits. As an aside, it was revealed 70% of people who receive free healthcare in Massachusetts are illegal aliens.

It almost seems the modus operandi of this government is to encourage, aid and abet the exodus of good paying jobs out of this country and import massive amounts of poor immigrants who are getting on the dole. Just look at who the White House chief on job development in our country is: Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE who is an exporter of American jobs out of our country.

Any states that try to get a handle on their illegal immigration burden by enacting laws and statutes that actually mimic the federal laws, are immediately set upon by the justice department and buried in lawsuits.

Some of the louder voices in the Congressional Black Caucus have actually started to question President Obamas economic policies and are complaining that their constituents are suffering high rates of unemployment. Of course in the next breath they blame the Tea Party!...Hello!

If you want to help the unemployment rate, get a handle on the legal and illegal immigration probelm. We need to close the borders NOW and enforce the immigration laws NOW that are on the books. Include the enforcement of requiring sponsors for immigrants to be economically responsible for them, instead of becoming burdens on the American taxpayer.

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hollabackgurl | Aug 25, 2011, 08:22 AM EDT

By the way I plan to report this completely irresponsible and odious article as an incitement to hatred. Expect to be hearing from Immigrants rights groups. You can't just make stuff up to menace a community you apparently don't respect.

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hollabackgurl | Aug 25, 2011, 08:17 AM EDT

You didn't cite the source of this statistic because it doesn't exist. Bash the poor, bash the immigrants, bash the gays, bash the Muslims, bash seniors, bash the infirm - and work hard night and day to make sure the rich get even greater tax breaks. You're a water carrier for the GOP. But even you need to stop buying your own b.s. sometime.

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hollabackgurl | Aug 25, 2011, 08:07 AM EDT

What a crock...

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GeorgeDillon | Aug 25, 2011, 03:56 AM EDT

Interesting article, Farnan. I suspect the figure would be similar in the case of Ireland, but over there the state agencies refuse to analyze figures on immigration, and the politicians (of all parties) avoiding asking questions about it. The result is that immigration has never been debated in the parliament. It seems to me, as a regular visitor to Ireland, that the pattern of immigration is changing. The folks who came to work 8 or 10 years ago have now lost jobs, but they haven't left. You'll see them collecting dole in the Post Offices throughout the country. And there's a new element, a whole new wave of immigration from the Indian subcontinent. Why the Irish employers need to import Pakistanis, Indians etc. is a question that I have never heard answered. And I'm not talking about doctors, though many hundreds of Third World doctors are headed for Ireland. (Be very afraid, American tourists, if you fall ill over there!) I'm talking about sales assistants, security guards etc. Even the PA voice at Dublin Airport was a guy who sounded like he was just off the plane from Bangla Desh. The Irish shouldn't dare come here looking for work, when they give countless jobs in their own country to foreigners.

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