12-17-2018, 09:48 PM
(12-17-2018, 09:03 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/us-taxpayers-bear-weight-of-anchor-babies/
Welfare programs make up a significant share of federal and state spending — $670 billion at the federal level alone — and illegals who receive it pay little or no income tax to help defray those costs. So birth tourism is creating a net fiscal burden for the country.
CIS notes that the Department of Homeland Security undercounts the illegal immigrant population by at least 10% and that Census undercounts the number of people on welfare. That means that the actual welfare-use rate for illegals is much higher.
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So 10% of $670B is another $67B annually. These numbers are based on 10% even though it says the numbers are low..
You lost me here. How do you figure that illegal immigrants which make up less than 3% of the population consume 10% of federal benefits when they are not even eligible to receive 90% of these benefits. Only federal benefits that undocumented immigrants are eligible for is emergency medical care and FEMA related benefits.
Also most of these medicaid costs would be for the births that you have already calculated.
