New Study Finds 57% of Immigrant Households with Children Use Welfare

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 11:05 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA

A new study from the Center of Immigration Studies shows that 57% of households headed by an immigrant with children under the age of 18 receive some form of welfare. Only 39% of native born households with children receive welfare services. The study included households headed by both illegal and legal immigrants.

The research conducted by Steven Camorata, the Center's Director of Research, found that immigrant households tend to use food assistance and medicaid programs at a much higher rate than native born American households. He found that the use of cash and housing programs were about the same between the two groups.

Furthermore, the research found that a large share of the immigrant households using welfare is received on behalf of U.S.-born children. But 56% of the entirely immigrant households still use some from of welfare.

Among other findings:

• Households with children with the highest rates of welfare use are those headed by immigrants from the Dominican Republic (82 percent), and Mexico and Guatemala (75 percent). Those with the lowest use rates are from the United Kingdom (7 percent), India (19 percent), Canada (23 percent), and Korea (25 percent).
• The states where immigrant households with children have the highest welfare use rates are Arizona (62 percent); Texas, California, and New York (61 percent); Pennsylvania (59 percent); Minnesota, and Oregon (56 percent); and Colorado (55 percent).
• The Center estimates that 52 percent of households with children headed by legal immigrants used at least one welfare program in 2009, compared to 71 percent for illegal immigrant households with children. Illegal immigrants generally receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children.
• Illegal immigrant households with children primarily use only food assistance and Medicaid, making almost no use of cash or housing assistance. In contrast, legal immigrant households tend to have relatively high use rates for every type of program.
• High welfare use by immigrant households with children is partly explained by the low education level of many immigrants. Of households headed by an immigrant who has not graduated high school, 80 percent access the welfare system, compared to 25 percent for those headed by an immigrant who has at least a bachelor’s degree.
• The vast majority (95 percent) of immigrant households with children had at least one worker in 2009. But their low education levels and resulting low incomes mean that more than half of these working immigrant households with children still accessed the welfare system during 2009.
• Excluding refugees, 57 percent of immigrant households with children access welfare.
• For all households (those with and without children), the use rates were 37 percent for households headed by immigrants and 22 percent for those headed by natives.
• Most new legal immigrants are barred from using some welfare for the first five years. But this provision has only a modest impact on household use rates because most immigrants have been in the country longer than five years; the ban applies only to some programs; some states provide welfare to new immigrants on their own; by naturalizing, immigrants become eligible for all programs; and most important, the U.S.-born children of immigrants (including those of illegal immigrants) are American citizens, and are eligible for all programs at birth.

For more information, see the Center for Immigration Studies.

THE MERRY MINUET

The Merry Minuet

Merry Minuet

They’re rioting in Africa,
They’re starving in Spain.
There’s hurricanes in Florida,
And Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering
With unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans,
The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs,
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don’t like anybody very much!

But we can be tranquil, and thankful, and glad,
For man’s been endowed with Islamic Jihad!
And we know for certain that some lovely day,
After greeting the Twelfth Imam, we will all be blown away!

Considering all the animosity between Croat and Serb, between Orthodox and Roman Catholic, between Iberians and Central Europeans, between the Irish and the English, and especially between Americans and everyone else, it’s no wonder that the Great Jihad is eating our lunch.

Close your eyes and throw a dart at the timeline of world history. It doesn’t matter where it lands: I can guarantee you that sometime during that year, somewhere on the planet, one group of people was being brutalized, enslaved, massacred, or supplanted by another.

It’s late and I don’t have any time for research, so I’ll just pick a few dates off the top of my head:
- - - - - - - - -

146 B.C.		Carthage destroyed by Rome.
70 A.D.		The Temple in Jerusalem leveled by the Romans, beginning the Jewish Diaspora.
410 A.D.		Rome sacked by the Visigoths.
580 A.D.		The Celts at York defeated by the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Caer Greu.
711 A.D.		The Moorish conquest of Iberia.
793 A.D.		The Vikings looted the monastery and Lindisfarne and slaughtered the inhabitants.
1389 A.D.		Serbia was defeated by the Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, and absorbed into the Ottoman Empire.
1453 A.D.		Constantinople overrun, sacked, and occupied by the Turks.
1658 A.D.		Denmark ceded Skåne after being defeated by Sweden.
1759 A.D.		The French defeated at the Plains of Abraham; Quebec fell to the British.
1795 A.D.		The final partition of Poland. The Polish nation ceased to exist.
1848 A.D.		California annexed by the United States after the Mexican-American War.
1865 A.D.		Richmond occupied by the Yankees.
1871 A.D.		Alsace-Lorraine ceded to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War.
1907 A.D.		Indian Territory abolished when Oklahoma became a state.
1922 A.D.		The Greeks and Armenians massacred and expelled from Smyrna by the Turks.
1940 A.D.		Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union.
1945 A.D.		The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decree.
1950 A.D.		Tibet forcibly occupied by China.
2008 A.D.		Kosovo removed from the control of Serbia by the United States, Britain, France, and Germany.

I could continue, but you get the idea.

There isn’t a square meter of ground in the world that hasn’t been defiled and brutally taken from one group by another.

Every single existing tribe, people, or ethnic group — every group, even the most peaceful and spiritual Indian tribe — obtained its current territory through violence, stealth, subterfuge, or purchase. Nobody has the original claim to any piece of ground on Earth. There aren’t any truly aboriginal inhabitants.

If we’re going to tear at one another’s throats over the grievances of fifty or a hundred or a thousand years ago, the strife won’t end until the Hosts of Mohammed joyfully celebrate the will of Allah and parade into our emptied cities.

Don’t you think we should forget these old grudges and stand against the common enemy?

Are we going to behave like the English under King Alfred and unite against a foe that threatens us all?

Or shall we be like the Irish, and traduce one another while the enemy hews us to pieces?

Honest to God, what’s wrong with you people??

Serbs are going to have to get along with Croats. Swedes are going to have to put up with Danes. The Irish and the English will have to forget their animosity. The Spaniards and the Portuguese will need to set aside their differences.

And — most difficult of all — I’ll have to learn to make friends with Yankees.

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THE MERRY MINUET

The Merry Minuet

The bitter argument waged in the comments section of yesterday’s post brought to mind a song from the late 1950s. The Kingston Trio covered a number that came out earlier in the ’50s, and the words were written by the Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick.

I had to make some slight modifications to the second stanza:

Merry Minuet

They’re rioting in Africa,
They’re starving in Spain.
There’s hurricanes in Florida,
And Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering
With unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans,
The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs,
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don’t like anybody very much!

But we can be tranquil, and thankful, and glad,
For man’s been endowed with Islamic Jihad!
And we know for certain that some lovely day,
After greeting the Twelfth Imam, we will all be blown away!

Considering all the animosity between Croat and Serb, between Orthodox and Roman Catholic, between Iberians and Central Europeans, between the Irish and the English, and especially between Americans and everyone else, it’s no wonder that the Great Jihad is eating our lunch.

Close your eyes and throw a dart at the timeline of world history. It doesn’t matter where it lands: I can guarantee you that sometime during that year, somewhere on the planet, one group of people was being brutalized, enslaved, massacred, or supplanted by another.

It’s late and I don’t have any time for research, so I’ll just pick a few dates off the top of my head:
- - - - - - - - -

146 B.C.		Carthage destroyed by Rome.
70 A.D.		The Temple in Jerusalem leveled by the Romans, beginning the Jewish Diaspora.
410 A.D.		Rome sacked by the Visigoths.
580 A.D.		The Celts at York defeated by the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Caer Greu.
711 A.D.		The Moorish conquest of Iberia.
793 A.D.		The Vikings looted the monastery and Lindisfarne and slaughtered the inhabitants.
1389 A.D.		Serbia was defeated by the Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, and absorbed into the Ottoman Empire.
1453 A.D.		Constantinople overrun, sacked, and occupied by the Turks.
1658 A.D.		Denmark ceded Skåne after being defeated by Sweden.
1759 A.D.		The French defeated at the Plains of Abraham; Quebec fell to the British.
1795 A.D.		The final partition of Poland. The Polish nation ceased to exist.
1848 A.D.		California annexed by the United States after the Mexican-American War.
1865 A.D.		Richmond occupied by the Yankees.
1871 A.D.		Alsace-Lorraine ceded to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War.
1907 A.D.		Indian Territory abolished when Oklahoma became a state.
1922 A.D.		The Greeks and Armenians massacred and expelled from Smyrna by the Turks.
1940 A.D.		Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union.
1945 A.D.		The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia under the Beneš decree.
1950 A.D.		Tibet forcibly occupied by China.
2008 A.D.		Kosovo removed from the control of Serbia by the United States, Britain, France, and Germany.

I could continue, but you get the idea.

There isn’t a square meter of ground in the world that hasn’t been defiled and brutally taken from one group by another.

Every single existing tribe, people, or ethnic group — every group, even the most peaceful and spiritual Indian tribe — obtained its current territory through violence, stealth, subterfuge, or purchase. Nobody has the original claim to any piece of ground on Earth. There aren’t any truly aboriginal inhabitants.

If we’re going to tear at one another’s throats over the grievances of fifty or a hundred or a thousand years ago, the strife won’t end until the Hosts of Mohammed joyfully celebrate the will of Allah and parade into our emptied cities.

Don’t you think we should forget these old grudges and stand against the common enemy?

Are we going to behave like the English under King Alfred and unite against a foe that threatens us all?

Or shall we be like the Irish, and traduce one another while the enemy hews us to pieces?

Honest to God, what’s wrong with you people??

Serbs are going to have to get along with Croats. Swedes are going to have to put up with Danes. The Irish and the English will have to forget their animosity. The Spaniards and the Portuguese will need to set aside their differences.

And — most difficult of all — I’ll have to learn to make friends with Yankees.