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Social Services Block Grants and migrant health center services are offered as limited exceptions within the 1996 welfare act:
- Treatment under Medicaid for emergency medical conditions (except organ transplant)
- Short-term emergency disaster relief
- Immunizations
- Testing and treatment for communicable diseases
- Soup kitchens, crisis counseling, short-term shelters
- HUD assistance
Although the law clearly states to the contrary, pre-natal care, treatment, and assistance under Medicaid, CHIP, nutrition programs, and other benefits are given to illegal aliens, all funded by U.S. taxpayers.
Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation ACT (PRWORA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-193) “established comprehensive restrictions on the eligibility of all
noncitizens for means-tested public assistance, with the exceptions for LPRs with a substantial U.S. work history or military connection.” PRWORA expressly bars illegal aliens from most state and locally funded benefits.
The Department of Labor estimated $53.8 billion in unemployment benefits were paid to illegal aliens in 2002 and IRS paid $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits in 2010 to illegal aliens. Unemployment compensation overpayment of 0.51% of total was made to illegal aliens. (Congressional Research Service, “Unauthorized Aliens’ Access to Federal Benefits: Policy and Issues, Ruth Ellen Wasem, September 17, 2012)
The Food Stamp Program reported that 1.9 million U.S. citizen children (“anchor babies”) living with illegal alien parents received food stamps, or 7% of all participants. Medicaid spent $2.5 billion, $2.2 billion on treatment for the uninsured, and $1.9 billion on food assistance programs, including emergency Medicaid and school lunch programs. According to Steven Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies, “Many of the costs associated with illegals are due to their American-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth…greater efforts at barring illegals from federal programs will not reduce costs because their citizen children can continue to access them.” (Steven A. Camarota,
The High Cost of Cheap Labor:
Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, Washington, D.C.: Center for Immigration Studies, August 2004)
At a time when so many Americans are unemployed, underemployed, out of the labor force, and 47 million Americans are on food stamps because of the disastrous economic policies pursued by the current administration, should we continue to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens who are the responsibility of their own countries?
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