Originally posted by sigma:

Even the worst of statistics only put 1 in 4 illegal immigrants as receiving the benefit from government-sponsored welfare programs; the vast majority of that in aid to various walk-in clinics, not the type of welfare that most people think of. So at least 3 out of 4 aren't entering to abuse the dole at all, and probably much more don't intend to when entering but end up becoming one of that 1 in 4.

So, at best, you'd only have 25% "pack up and go" if there was no such spigot, and that's presuming that every single one of them decided to leave once welfare was no longer an option, which of course wouldn't happen, because even without welfare almost of them are still better off here than in Mexico.

1 in 6 American households receive benefit from the same welfare programs. And while they of course deserve those benefits, it's clear that illegals clearly aren't coming over here to abuse the current welfare system at significantly higher rates than even Americans themselves are.



You're not reading the statistics correctly. It's not 25% of illegals receive some sort of welfare, it's 25% of illegal alien households receive some sort of welfare. It's safe to assume that when the household leaves, it will have more than one person in it.

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