Below are links explaining that hundreds of millions if not billions of US tax dollars are being spent to provide public benefits to both legal and illegal immigrants.  These moneys could be better spent to improve education, infrastructure, create jobs, etc. If immigrants can’t financially stand on their own, they shouldn’t be in our country!  Please see the links below detailing extent of the financial drain. 

Welfare for immigrants is alien to our laws, history, and traditions

DHS plan: Immigrants will have to pay own way. Link ↓

Protecting the taxpayers and the disadvantaged. Two Reasons to Amend the Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility. Link ↓

As New Immigrants Struggle, DHS Eyes ‘Public Charge’ Reform. Link ↓

Welfare Use by Immigrant and Native Households

Fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.

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Center for Immigration Studies Use of Means-Tested Programs.

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.

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Welfare Use Among Elderly Immigrants

By

Norman Matloff University of California at Davis  

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Immigration + Welfare = Bad News

 By MARK KRIKORIAN 

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How American Citizens Finance $18.5 Billion In Health Care For Unauthorized Immigrants

The Apothecary, CONTRIBUTOR GROUPChris Conover, CONTRIBUTOR 

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