What states allow illegal immigrants to collect welfare?
597323
I totally agree with you! You need a valid SS# to get any kind of  welfare from the government!
811823
I dont think illegal immigrants can. In college they ask for social security numbers.
604682
There is on May 5th and 6th.   Here is a website of where they will be across the US and also to give the opoportunity to organize one in your area.  \n\nhttp://www.illegalimmigrantprotest.com/\n\nPass it to everyone!
651308
You assume that welfare recipients are lazy and do not work. There are lots of welfare recipients working jobs but not making enough to even afford child care. Plus under welfare reform the recipients are already forced to work or go to school. \n\nAround here there's nothing but minimum wage jobs. The employers will only work an employee about 20 hours a week and one employer won't work around another employer's work schedules. 20 hours a week times $5.15/hour is about $100.00 a week and then they take out taxes and social security. The employee is making less than $400 a month and receiving welfare. Many of the women I know on welfare had been abandoned by the child's deadbeat father who refuses to help out with the children. Then the court orders the women to remain in the area in case the deadbeat ever wants to exercise his visitation rights for the child(ren) he won't even support. So the women face criminal sanctions if they move somewhere to try and get jobs that pay better money. After going through college to try and get a better job, the minimum wage employers around here won't hire them because they are "overqualified" and there aren't the better jobs around here. Since they aren't allowed to leave to get the better jobs, they're stuck. They have educated themselves out of the job market. The easy fix to this problem would be to lift the sanctions against their moving out of the area so that they can get decent jobs, but the courts want to control their lives to preserve the 'rights' of these deadbeats who don't want to take care of the kids in the first place. \n\nYes, these illegal aliens need to be deported. There are enough Americans trying to get jobs already without depressing the wages even further. \n\nThe illegals make up about 5 % of the work force. The unemployment rate is about 4.5%. Keep in mind that the unemployment rate does NOT represent everyone who is unemployed. It only counts those who are collecting unemployment. Everyone else's plight is ignored. The unemployment rate if everyone was counted would be tremendous. We do NOT have a shortage of labor, we have a large surplus. The more illegals that come in and take our jobs at minimum wage or less (often less) puts more and more Americans out of a job. Most of these Americans are never counted in the unemployment rate if they do not manage to get unemployment benefits. Unemployment benefits are hard to receive.\n\nIllegals draw welfare by stealing people's social security numbers and identities. That means there are a lot of people being directly hurt by these people as well. Innocent people are having their credit ratings ruined, having IRS problems, and social security problems. If someone who has had their social security number stolen gets married, if either spouse dies or become disabled then they can be denied their benefits. \n\nMy family moved to the US before WWII. Those of my family that didn't make it over got killed by the death camps. Our family assimilated to the American culture. We didn't expect the Americans to change to suit us. The illegal immigrants from Mexico are not civilized like that.\n\nThey not only changed the National Anthem to Spanish, they changed the words. They already burn our flag and hang our flag upside down. They waved the Mexican flag during a lot of their protests. Some schools have stopped hanging the American flag and forbidden students from wearing clothes with any part of the American flag on their clothing all to keep from offending the Mexicans. It's nothing short of an attack of our country, not only by the illegal aliens, but those who seek to appease them. \n\nI am tired of the stereotype that Americans wouldn't do the work that illegals do. Illegals do all kinds of jobs for less than minimum wage which drives the wages down for U.S. citizens. Construction jobs are an example. There are lots of illegals doing constructi
208857
The government has put restrictions on the amount of time you can recieve welfare, they have also required training in exchange. They are paying  for GED's and other programs. It's called welfare-to-work. There are only few exceptions to this rule and they all have to do with diabled parents who can't work. Our government is trying. If they sent them out to clean up highways, what would the prisoners in county jail do to earn there 75 cents a day?
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Cost of Welfare FOR illegals\n\n\nThe High Cost of Cheap Labor\nIllegal Immigration and the Federal Budget\n\nExecutive Summary\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThis study is one of the first to estimate the total impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Most previous studies have focused on the state and local level and have examined only costs or tax payments, but not both. Based on Census Bureau data, this study finds that, when all taxes paid (direct and indirect) and all costs are considered, illegal households created a net fiscal deficit at the federal level of more than $10 billion in 2002. We also estimate that, if there was an amnesty for illegal aliens, the net fiscal deficit would grow to nearly $29 billion.\n\nAmong the findings:\n\nHouseholds headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household. \n \n\nAmong the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).\n \n\nWith nearly two-thirds of illegal aliens lacking a high school degree, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their legal status or heavy use of most social services.\n \n\nOn average, the costs that illegal households impose on federal coffers are less than half that of other households, but their tax payments are only one-fourth that of other households. \n \n\nMany of the costs associated with illegals are due to their American-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth. Thus, greater efforts at barring illegals from federal programs will not reduce costs because their citizen children can continue to access them.\n \n\nIf illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes and use services like households headed by legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual net fiscal DEFICIT would INCREASE from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 BILLION.\n\nCosts increase dramatically because unskilled immigrants with legal status -- what most illegal aliens would become -- can access government programs, but still tend to make very modest tax payments. \n \n\nAlthough legalization would increase average tax payments by 77 percent, average costs would rise by 118 percent.\n \n\nThe fact that LEGAL immigrants with few years of schooling are a large fiscal drain does not mean that legal immigrants overall are a net drain -- many legal immigrants are highly skilled. \n \n\nThe vast majority of illegals hold jobs. Thus the fiscal deficit they create for the federal government is not the result of an unwillingness to work. \n \n\nThe results of this study are consistent with a 1997 study by the National Research Council, which also found that immigrants' education level is a key determinant of their fiscal impact\n\nMy note: These figures were from several years ago, it is worse now. The Federal Government does not know how much more these criminals make under the table (cash). So they don't figure that into these equations. Many do not report all their earnings in order to remain in the low income bracket and still be eligible for the tax paid services legal immigrants and legal USA citizens pay for. Also, they do not KNOW how many are in this country ILLEGALLY. No one documented WHEN they came here, many are here that are keeping a low profile.
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Four rules I would add to any welfare system are...\n\nIf you are a minor and get pregnant, you are not entitled to any welfare.  Your parents, the father and his parents are responsible.  No exceptions.  If the father refuses to pay, he should be neutered.  No exceptions.\n\nIf you are of age and get pregnant and want to go on welfare it will be mandatory that you are spaded.  If the father refuses or can't pay, he should be neutered.  You have acted like an animal and should be treated like one.  People who can't take responsibility for their own actions shouldn't be allowed to procreate.  No exceptions.\n\nImmigrants should not get any welfare, social services or tax exemptions at all.  If you want to be a part of a different country then you should contribute to it.  All these church groups that help immigrants come into a country should be forced to support them.  You brought them here, you take financial responsibility for them or they will be shipped back at your expense.  No exceptions.\n\nAny elderly or handicapped must show exactly where their assets went before receiving aid of any kind.  I have seen too often where senior citizens have sold their homes and assets, turned the money over to their kids and then went to live on welfare as a way to beat the system.  What is that but letting the tax payer support your parents when you should be doing it?
976642
No.  What the govt needs to do is make sure that the people on food stamps and welfare are actually citizens.  There are a lot of illegals in the "welfare"system and it truly irritates me.  I need help and I can't get it but people who aren't citizens walk in and get whatever they want.  The food stamps and welfare are for citizens who need short-term help for whatever reason.
612164
It is welfare fraud to collect SSI or other benefits while in prison.
1149098
Illegals have found how easy it is to get entitlements from the US government such as welfare,health care and free education,who would not want to come here for those benefits?mooching off this country has become a magnet for more illegals to get here,illegals in this country send letters to people back home how it's not that hard once you're in the states to get aid,in california where they control the state,hospitals have gone bankrup because of the influx of illegals using the facilities and not paying for them.Politicians turn a blind eye to what's happening as to not offend anyone,but in the end,they too will lose out
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This is for Ingrid R and her answer:\nher statement "Illegal aliens do not extend their hands an ask for assistance."\nWRONG! In Michigan Illegals get food stamps, welfare and a multitude of other government give away programs. \n\nher statement  "When they get sick they do not go to the Hospital."\nSUPER WRONG!!! Hundreds of emergency rooms around the country have gone bankrupt because of illegal aliens. Hospitals by law must give medical treatment to everyone.\n\nTHERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CHEAP LABOR! We pay for it one way or the other.
341499
Yes\n\n(Guys below: or the illegals are getting nowadays more than what they give or not. If they are getting less, then stop complaining on how they are abusing the system. If they get more, then admit that by making them legal, though you may not like the idea, they will be paying taxes to give back what they get from welfare.)
192253
there are jobs that dont make it worthwhile for some americans to take.  People on welfare make more in welfare than they would it they work, the system here needs to be changed.  Unions make it hard to hire employees who might do these jobs; prisoners, kids, etc.  companies that have to pay health care, insurance, etc for legal workers.  I think what bush means is that its bad for the companies profits not to be able to hire illegals, pay them low wages, give them no benefits, and tell them to get lost when the work is done.
522764
Absolutely! If employers were (they are suppose to)made to check ss# and other forms of pos. ID and pay legal wages,americans would be more than willling to do the work the gov. claims they won't.I haven't known anyone who wants to be on WELFARE.
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1- allowed the company I worked for to send our jobs to Brazil and Germany, then let them hire from temporary services for other jobs we could have done.\n\n2- allows illegal immigrants to work here for low wages then get social services that the American Citizens pay for.\nWith their wages plus the cost of the free services they get they actually end up with better care than we (USA citizens) can afford.\n\n3- Illegal immigrants come across our southern border by the hundreds daily, costing us BILLIONS anually. Our government fails us by not placing the National Guard at that border.\n\n4 - No matter how many times illegal immigrants are reported, the INS arrests very few. They stand back, watch and do NOTHING!!\n\n5- By not allowing Americans who formerly made a decent wage and had insurance, to qualify for assistance until they can get back on their feet.\n\n6-By taking 'recesses' when important issues are on the table. They should have come up with something, at least more stringent border control, before going on two weeks recess.
164098
Probably my home state New York.  We have more government programs than a lot of other states combined.  Why else would so many undocumented immigrants come here?  They get better medical care and benefits than most common folk citizens.
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If they come illegally, having a child will complicate their deportation.  It's also much more affordable in America, because all of the freebies as far as health care goes.