The Center for Immigration Studies recently did the research by pouring into the Census poverty as well as the welfare data only to find that a huge number of non-citizens are getting undefined welfare benefits from the federal government of the United States.
According to the findings in the report about 45 percent of the households which are headed by the noncitizens used food programs in the year 2014 which was the latest year for a census report data that is available.
Comparing this with the 21 percent of the citizens of the United States clearly highlights the difference between the two figures.
Also about half of the non-citizens were reported to be using the Medicaid facility which was used by only 23 percent of the citizens.
The analysis of the CIS also discovered that about 31 percent of the non-citizen households of the United States received cash benefits including the Earned Income Tax Credit.
The number for the same for the citizens of the United States accounted to only 10 percent.
In 2014, overall 63 percent of the non-citizens headed households in the United States received welfare benefits from the government. However the number for the same type of benefits for the citizens accounted to only 35 percent.
The authors Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler stated that the data clearly shows that the access of the welfare system by the non-citizens in the United States much high.
They further added that these benefits are availed by the non-citizens on behalf of the children that are born in the United States.
The United States is undoubtedly a generous nation but according to the Investors’ Business Daily, despite that this data raises questions which are important to be answered.
One of them is that is it worth working hard by the Americans so as to pay billions of dollars as benefits to people who are not the citizens of the United States.
Source: Investors’ Business Daily, CA Political Review
