Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant
Welfare
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the
state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that
about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or
more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one
immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by
native-born Americans use welfare in California.
All four states with the largest foreign-born populations,
including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant
households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by
immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of
native-born households in Texas are on welfare.
In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by
immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of
immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born
households use welfare.
President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a
policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the
mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public
charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a
permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the
past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.
The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers
in the form of an annual $57.4
billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for
the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of
1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.
As Breitbart News reported, the majority of
the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every
year use about 57
percent more food stamps than the average native-born American
household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash
welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid
dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born
population translates to the average immigrant household costing American
taxpayers $6,234 in federal
welfare.
California Primary: Darrell Issa Could Return to Congress
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LOS ANGELES, California — Early returns from congressional races suggest that veteran Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has a strong chance of returning to Congress in November, after a solid showing in the 50th congressional district.
Issa once represented the coastal 49th district, but retired in 2019, leaving the increasingly liberal seat to be won by left-wing Democrat Mike Levin. But the corruption conviction of Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) created a vacuum.
Several Republicans jumped into the race for the conservative 50th district, which lies east of San Diego and near the California border. The big names included former San Diego council member and GOP activist Carl DeMaio.
With 100% of precincts reporting, and mail-in ballots still being counted, Issa was in second place in the primary election in the 50th, behind Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar, the grandson of a notorious Palestinian terrorist.
California’s “jungle primary” rules pit all of the candidates from all of the parties against each other in the first round, leaving the top two finishers to due it out in the general election, regardless of party affiliation.
Campa-Najjar’s 34.4% put him first place in the primary, but Issa’s 24.7% and DeMaio’s 21.1% together dwarf his total. The district is heavily Republican, probably too heavily for Democrats to take, even with “ballot harvesting.”
One interesting factoid: a race between Campa-Najjar and Issa would be one of the few contests in U.S. history to feature two Arab-Americans running against each other.
Elsewhere in California, Democrat Christy Smith won the special election to replace former Rep. Katie Hill (D) in the 25th district, and will face second-place finisher Republican Mike Garcia in the fall. Republicans did well overall there, and in districts Democrats won in 2018.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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