Sunday, August 8, 2010

Mixed family welfare benefits controlled by illegal alien parents

According to data release by Utah’s Workforce Services, 10% of Utah families receiving public assistance have a blend of citizens and undocumented immigrants relying on public benefits to survive.

This calls into serious question the often repeated assertion that illegal aliens do not receive taxpayer funded benefits.

While it may be technically correct to say that illegal aliens do not qualify directly for taxpayer funded, welfare benefits, the Workforce Services figures show that in reality illegal aliens are directly benefiting from taxpayer funded welfare programs through their American born children.

Illegal aliens clearly rely on their children's taxpayer funded benefits to help make ends meet...

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