Study: Over Half of Migrants Are on American Taxpayer-Funded Welfare
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More than half of the nation’s non-citizen population — including legal immigrants, foreign visa workers, and illegal aliens — use American taxpayer-funded welfare after arriving in the United States, a new analysis reveals.
Research by Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota finds that about 55 percent of non-citizen households in the U.S. use at least one form of welfare compared to just 32 percent of households headed by native-born Americans.
Camarota’s research analyzes the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation data from 2018, showing that 49 percent of households headed by foreign-born residents, including naturalized American citizens, use at least one welfare program.
In 2017, economist George Borjas called the U.S. immigration system “the largest anti-poverty program in the world” at the expense of America’s working and middle class.
(Center for Immigration Studies)
Specifically, foreign-born residents used vastly more Medicaid compared to native-born Americans and food stamps. For example, while 33 percent of foreign-born residents use Medicaid, just 20 percent of native-born Americans do so.
Likewise, while 31 percent of foreign-born residents are on food stamps, only 19 percent of native-born Americans use the program.
Camarota’s research reveals that even after years and years of residing in the U.S., foreign-born resident households continue to use high levels of welfare.
About 44 percent of foreign-born residents who resided in the U.S. for 10 years or less use at least one form of welfare. Roughly 50 percent of those who resided in the U.S. for more than 10 years are on welfare.
When naturalized Americans are excluded from that count, the level of welfare use rises significantly for those who have resided in the U.S. for a while. For example, among non-citizen households who resided in the U.S. for 10 years or less, 40 percent use welfare. For those in the U.S. for more than 10 years, about 62 percent are on welfare.
The latest data comes after similar numbers were released in March 2019 that showed that, in 2014, non-citizen households used nearly twice as much welfare as native-born Americans.
Currently, there is an estimated record high of 44.5 million foreign-born residents living in the U.S. This is nearly quadruple the immigrant population in 2000. The vast majority of those arriving in the country every year — more than 1.5 million annually — are low-skilled foreign nationals who go on to compete for jobs against working class Americans.
At current legal immigration levels, the Census Bureau projects that about 1-in-6 U.S. residents will be foreign-born by 2060 with the foreign-born population hitting a record 69 million.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Biden Taps ‘Sanctuary City’ Supporter To Oversee ICE Prosecutions
Move comes as Biden administration faces an influx of illegal immigrants in Del Rio, Tex.
The Biden administration is tapping a left-wing attorney who has publicly endorsed sanctuary laws for illegal aliens to serve as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's top prosecutor, according to an internal memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
ICE announced the hiring of Kerry Doyle, a longtime partner at the Boston-based law firm Graves & Doyle, as the agency's new principal legal adviser, a role that oversees 25 field locations and 1,250 attorneys. The office serves as ICE’s representative in all removal proceedings and litigates cases against illegal aliens and terrorists.
"Throughout her legal practice in Boston, Ms. Doyle worked closely with the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute providing technical assistance and public testimony and various immigration-related policy issues before the state legislature and Boston City Council," the ICE memo reads.
A spokesman for ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Doyle's appointment comes as the Biden administration faces an influx of Haitian refugees, who are overrunning the border city of Del Rio, Texas. After reversing a bevy of Trump-era immigration rules, an uptick in illegal migration across the Southern border has strained resources and presented a political problem for the president, who repudiated Trump's hardline approach to policing the border but risks political blowback from an influx of illegal residents.
Doyle's LinkedIn profile spotlights her work as co-counsel in a case that pushed for — and won — a temporary restraining order against then-president Donald Trump’s 2017 travel ban. The attorney also spoke in favor of a Massachusetts bill called the "Safe Communities Act" in early 2020 arguing that ICE was "out of control." . The measure would have applied sanctuary city laws nationwide and sharply limited the state’s cooperation with the federal government on the deportation of illegal immigrants.
"The Safe Communities Act limits state cooperation … [with ICE]: don’t ask about immigration status; don’t pay for sheriffs to act as ICE agents; tell people their rights," a description of the bill by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts reads. In June, Doyle told a local news outlet that the state must pass the bill, saying state Democrats should not trust "the Biden administration’s more supportive tone as an excuse not to do what our state needs to do."
Doyle, who did not respond to a request for comment, has also helped represent illegal aliens convicted of crimes in the past. In March, she filed a petition with ACLU Massachusetts to release two criminal aliens with medical conditions, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Doyle’s name has since been scrubbed from her previous law firm’s website.
One of President Joe Biden’s first executive orders in office was to suspend arrests, deportations, and investigations of most criminal aliens for 100 days. Deportations under Biden have hit a record low. U.S. immigration judges ordered just 25,000 deportations by the end of August, compared to 152,000 in August 2020. The total number of cases completed by immigration courts are at a 28-year low, even as Border Patrol apprehensions hit a 21-year high.
Doyle will succeed John Trasviña, who assumed the role in January.
Michelle Malkin: Stop Lapping Up the Manufactured Border Crisis
By Michelle Malkin | September 22, 2021 | 11:14am EDT
In nearly 30 years of covering America's corrupted immigration and entrance policies, I can tell you definitively that every "border crisis" is a manufactured crisis. Caravans of Latin American illegal immigrants don't just form out of nowhere. Throngs of Middle Eastern refugees don't just amass spontaneously. Boatloads of Haitians don't just wash up on our shores by random circumstance.
All the world's a stage, and as I exposed in my most recent book, "Open Borders, Inc.," the world's migrants are nothing more than expedient tools to globalist elites, profit-maximizing corporations, self-aggrandizing religious and nonprofit groups, and criminal smuggling syndicates.
That's how the so-called border crises under former Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump all played out. The players are always the same: United Nations operatives, U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyists, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its sovereignty-undermining shelter operators around the world, Jewish and evangelical Christian refugee resettlement contractors, international drug cartels, human traffickers, and their militant multicultural abettors. It's the same old, same old under President Joe Biden. The latest wave of Haitians traversing rough seas and barren deserts to trespass onto U.S. soil at our southern border in Del Rio, Tex., is no accidental phenomenon.
Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, has been interviewing Haitians at Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, the town through which an estimated 15,000 of these illegals have passed to form the massive encampment in Del Rio, Tex. Several dozen told Bensman that "on Sunday, Sept. 12, the Mexican government effectively sent a mass of migrants it had bottled up for months in its southern states up to the American border. This move, which appears to have been done under the cover of Mexico's independence week of celebration known as El Grito, essentially foisted a humanitarian problem onto the Americans in a single week."
Several Haitians told Bensman that government officials in Tapachula informed them they no longer needed passports or other paperwork they had been waiting months for — and then were suddenly given a three-day grace period to make their rush for the border.
Because Ciudad Acuna and Del Rio are not as infested with Mexican cartel enforcers, thousands of Haitians took advantage of the relatively safe passage into America's promised land without having to pay the usual coyote fees.
Most have been lying in wait in Chile and Brazil for several years looking for better economic opportunities, so don't believe sob-story propaganda that the prime factor has to do with any recent natural disaster or sudden political turmoil. Open-borders academic Andrew Selee of the Migration Policy Institute himself tweeted that "for those wondering about where Haitian migrants are coming from, most left Haiti in 2010-12 after the earthquake and settled in Brazil....Later most moved to Chile & Ecuador....This means that most of those arriving in Texas have been out of their country for about a decade. The COVID recession, discrimination, and the perception that they could get into the U.S. now all played a role in the movement north over the past few months....Both Colombia and Panama registered huge increases in transit through the Darien Gap in July/August suggesting significant movement north."
Countless Catholic parishes, like the Franciscan parish in Necocli run by Father Henry Lopera, have facilitated Haitians' migration through the Darien Gap and on to Mexico and the U.S. by supplying food packages. Doctors Without Borders has three health posts to assist the trespassers. Along the way, these Haitian invaders have also been assisted by the United Nations' International Organization of Migration, which has dispatched minibuses filled with toiletries and hair ties, according to The Guardian.
As I reported in "Open Borders, Inc.," the International Organization of Migration, or IOM, is the same agency that signed "cooperation agreements" in Mexico with three migrant shelters along its southern border to assist border-busting "irregulars" traveling through the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca on their way to the U.S.
The IOM pact guaranteed supplies of medicine, hygiene products, construction materials, therapy services, and legal training at the Hermanos en el Camino shelter, along with the Catholic-run Hogar de la Misericordia shelter and Jesus el Buen Pastor del Pobre y el Migrante shelter. IOM extended similar aid to nine other migrant shelters in the northern and central parts of Mexico, from Chihuahua, Sonora, and Tamaulipas along the northern border to San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, and Tlaxcala in the center of the country.
Who's paying? Funding for IOM's operations comes from the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, which is subsidized by y-o-u.
The bozos in the Biden administration are now play-acting with their performative gestures of "mass deportation" of Haitians. But I've seen this show and all its reruns over the past three decades before. It ends with sneaky "temporary protected status" orders, mini-amnesties, and maxi-amnesties to feed the global Open Borders, Inc. beast.
All the world's a stage, and America is the overrun doormat being trampled upon while our own citizens suffer increasing deprivation and anarcho-tyranny. Ain't "diversity" grand?
Michelle Malkin is a conservative blogger at michellemalkin.com, syndicated columnist, author, and founder of hotair.com. Michelle Malkin's email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com.
Biden Proposes Highest Refugee Ceiling in Three Decades for FY 2022
(CNSNews.com) – The Biden administration informed Congress on Monday that the United States will admit up to 125,000 refugees in fiscal year 2022, doubling the ceiling of 62,500 that it had hoped to resettle in FY 2021.
An admission ceiling of 125,000 refugees would be the highest set by any administration in almost three decades.
In 1993, a ceiling of 142,000 refugees was set, although actual resettlements that fiscal year reached only 119,448. If President Biden’s ceiling of 125,000 refugees next year is achieved, it will be the highest number of arrivals since 1992, when 132,531 refugees were resettled.
“New political violence, intensifying humanitarian crises, climate change-induced displacement, and increased threats to refugees in countries of asylum all support a need to increase refugee admissions to the United States and among our global resettlement partners,” states the proposed presidential determination (PD) sent to Congress.
The move comes after Trump administration reduced the annual refugee admission cap for five consecutive years, each time setting a new record low ceiling: 50,000 refugees in FY 2017, 45,000 in FY 2018, 30,000 in FY 2019, 18,000 in FY 2020, and 15,000 in FY 2021.
When Biden took office he initially did not throw out his predecessor’s cap of 15,000 – the lowest set since the modern-day refugee admissions program was established in 1980 – but after refugee advocacy groups protested he issued a new PD in May, with a ceiling of 62,500 admissions.
With just ten days of the fiscal year to run, however, it’s clear actual admissions for FY 2021 will fall well below that.
The latest State Department Refugee Processing Center data available indicate that as of the end of August, only 7,637 refugees – or just 12.2 percent of the 62,500 cap – had been resettled since the fiscal year began on October 1 last year.
The report sent to Congress on Monday projects that by the end of the month, the total number of actual FY 2021 admissions will be around 12,500, or 20 percent of the 62,500 cap.
The majority of the refugees admitted this year, almost 70 percent of the total, arrived in just four months – May, June, July and August.
The countries of origin of the largest groups are the Democratic Republic of Congo (3,449 refugees), Ukraine (702), Afghanistan (643), Burma (581), and Syria (541).
The Afghanistan figure does not apply to Afghans who have arrived under the Congress-created Special Immigrant Visa program covering those who worked for the U.S. over the past 20 years.
Arrivals of SIV-holders have increased significantly since July, as the drawdown of U.S. and coalition forces neared completion and the Taliban advanced across the country.
In Monday’s report, the administration is proposing to allocate 40,000 refugee places to applicants from Africa, 35,000 from the Near East-South Asia region, 15,000 from East Asia, 15,000 from Latin America and the Caribbean, and 10,000 from Europe and Central Asia, leaving the remaining 10,000 as an unallocated reserve.
Compared to last year’s regional allocations (see chart below), the most obvious change is a smaller allocation for refugees from Africa – from 44 percent of the total (excluding unallocated reserve) in FY 2021 to 34.7 percent in FY 2022, a drop of almost 10 percent.
Regarding the other four regions, allocations for FY 2022 are somewhat larger than they were for FY 2021 – bigger by 1 percent for East Asia; by 0.7 percent for Europe; by 3 percent for Latin America and the Caribbean; and by 4.4 percent for the Near East-South Asia.
“The proposed FY 2022 allocations are based on refugee resettlement needs and humanitarian policy priorities,” the report states. “Areas of particular focus in FY 2022 include higher expected arrivals of Afghan refugees with the recent P-2 designation and providing more safe and legal pathways, including resettlement, for vulnerable individuals in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.”
Among applicants to be prioritized are vulnerable people in the northern triangle countries and individuals falling within a category listed in the 1989 Lautenberg Amendment and its 2004 extension, including Jews and other minorities in Eurasia as well as persecuted religious minorities in Iran.
Ethnic minorities from Burma and the DRC are prioritized, as are Afghans under a new Priority 2 (P-2) designation applying to those who don’t meet the minimum time-in-service requirement for the SIV program, but were employed by the U.S. government or armed forces, a government-funded program or project, or a U.S.-based media or non-governmental organization.
Other groups determined to be priorities in FY 2022 include Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in China; activists, journalists, and dissidents from Hong Kong; Rohingya Muslims from Burma; religious or ethnic minority Syrians and Iraqis; and “individuals persecuted on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex characteristics.”
State Department spokesman Ned Price said the Departments of State, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services will now consult with Congress over the proposed PD.
Biden's grand return of 'catch and release'
Should breaking into the U.S. illegally be a sure-thing win for the lawbreakers?
It is, with Joe Biden in the saddle. So much for "do not come, do not come," as Kamala Harris once said. Migrants are not fools and pay attention to what the Biden administration proceeds to do and respond accordingly.
Two things are going on that show the extent of this new "catch and release" farce.
One: As I noted the other day, Biden is releasing the vast community of 16,000 illegals, mostly from Haiti, camped out under a bridge near the Del Rio, Texas border into the country without so much as a court date. His claims of mass deportations is just a few for show.
According to Fox News:
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday confirmed that some Haitian migrants are being released into the interior of the United States – despite a stern warning to migrants from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday that their efforts "will not succeed."
In response to the surge in Haitian migrants, which has seen more than 14,000 migrants camped under the bridge in Del Rio, with reports of tens of thousands more on the way, DHS has emphasized that migrants are being removed on removal flights under Title 42 public health protections. DHS has ramped up deportation flights to Haiti as part of its strategy to combat the crisis.
"DHS continues to expel migrants under CDC’s Title 42 authority," a spokesperson said. "Those who cannot be expelled under Title 42 and do not have a legal basis to remain are placed in expedited or full removal proceedings."
That "some" is Biden-spin meaning "thousands." Only a precious few — some 300 — who have broken into the U.S. illegally have been deported back to Haiti. Most are being sent to their destinations of choice in the U.S. at taxpayer expense, unvetted, and unvaxxed, with just a "notice to report" to the local ICE office papers instead of so much as a "notice to appear" with a fixed court date to adjudicate their phony asylum-claim status.
Either paper is easily ignored and usually is by such lawbreakers, and Biden refuses to allow interior enforcement of immigration law, so the migrants know they've gotten here scot-free. Applying legally, you see, is for suckers. And don't think they won't tell their friends.
Why the speed? Because the Bidenites have public relations as their prime priority, same as they did with the Afghanistan pullout. Given that photos of the vast, squalid Del Rio migrant camp are a political liability, Biden has his priorities. Too bad about the country, let alone what the American people want.
Here's another issue well worth noting. Migrants, not being stupid, are gaming the system in an additional way — they're throwing away their identification papers.
Virtually all of them are previously resettled refugees in third-world countries such as Chile and Brazil. They took those deals as long as a decade ago but decided they wanted to upgrade, so they came to the States, knowing that Biden was inviting them in and had halted deportations. It costs a lot of money to migrate, and, being no fools, they shelled it out only because they were sure.
The ID cards from Chile and Brazil made them ineligible for asylum right off the bat. No ID, no problem — without those cards, they can then claim to be anyone and get the asylum upgrade they're looking for. Country-shopping for the best package deal of benefits is getting to be pretty common under Biden. He created that situation.
How the immigration officials sort that out is anyone's guess. The reality on the ground says the Bidenites won't even try.
So once again, the migrants win, and the illegals will get in. That won't be where it ends, though; the illegal migrants will also tell their friends and relatives that it's all so very easy. Guess what the friends and relatives are going to do!
And Biden here thinks he's got the problem solved by sweeping it under the rug to get the cameras off. What he's done with this catch-and-release idiocy is only make the problem get bigger. He's like a foolish homeowner who thinks he can get rid of a bee's nest in his rafters by shutting the hole down. Bees don't work that way, and leaving the honey in the attic will only bring more bees, in bigger numbers than ever. People, like bees, respond to honeyed incentives, and Joe's solutions will only bring in more illegal aliens, as if two million new ones this year aren't enough.
Congress, the courts, the states, and anyone else out there have got to get tough with this lunacy. And since Biden responds only to cameras, anyone else out there must keep the cameras on.
