'Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your...Freebies'? Nearly Half of U.S. Immigrant Households on Welfar

[mystery-ak]

'Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your...Freebies'? Nearly Half of U.S. Immigrant Households on Welfare
By Becky Noble | 2:25 PM on March 20, 2026

As the Trump administration works on deporting the millions of illegal immigrants that the Biden administration let in through the southern border, Democrats and the left have insisted that America is "a nation of immigrants." It's just another attempt to twist words and meanings to fit their ideology. Traditionally, immigrants expected to come to the U.S. and work hard to achieve success. As if we didn't already suspect, today's immigrants appear to have a very different idea of what coming to America is.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/2031389239217131894

According to a recent analysis of Census Bureau data by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), almost half of households headed by immigrants, both legal and illegal, receive one or more forms of welfare. The Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement showed that roughly 47 percent of immigrant households are on at least one form of welfare. When the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit is added in, the percentage jumps to 54 percent.

Which immigrants are the biggest offenders? Immigrants from Afghanistan at 87 percent, the Dominican Republic at 78 percent, Guatemala at 77 percent, Honduras at 75 percent, and Mexico at 67 percent. But not all immigrants have come to the U.S. expecting to be supported by American taxpayers. Korean immigrants come in at 28 percent, Canada and the United Kingdom both come in at 21 percent, and India comes in at just 15 percent.

While the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill in July 2025 halted much of the access to welfare benefits granted by the Biden administration to illegal immigrants, there is still a large number of illegal immigrants who have managed to access those benefits. The Survey cites the reason for this.

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[The_Reader_David]

Back in the day (think Ellis Island) when the US very much welcomed those fleeing persecution elsewhere, immigrants were required to prove they would not become "public charges" (as was the term for going on welfare, such as it was back then). 

My wife's family was friends with a Russian couple, the Melitsky's who fled the Bolsheviks.  The husband had been a lawyer in Tsarist Russia, which would not enable him to earn a living here.  However, among their luggage was a cello.  When the immigration officer, who otherwise would have turned them away, found he could play it, he declared "okay, you're a musician," wrote this as his profession on their immigation documents and admitted them.  For a while Mr. Melitsky did earn his living playing the cello for vaudeville shows (as the only non-Jewish musician he was nicknamed "the goy").  Eventually he was in charge of the rare books collection at Brentano's.

Not being able to turn away those likely to become public charges is one of the many problems with a porous border that encourages illegal immigration.

[Fishrrman]

I'm on record for years in this forum as saying that the Statue of Liberty should be dismantled and given back to the French.

At least remove Lazarus' poem.
We don't need any more tired, poor, huddled masses.
We're "full up" with them now.

Indeed, we need to start sending them back to their countries of origin.

[Hoodat]

Stop handing out 'free shit' to non-citizens, and we'll no longer have an immigration problem.

[Bigun]

Stop handing out 'free shit' to non-citizens, and we'll no longer have an immigration problem.

 

[libertybele]

Stop handing out 'free shit' to non-citizens, and we'll no longer have an immigration problem.

Many have been screaming that from the rooftops only for that point to fall on deaf leftist ears.

[Hoodat]

Many have been screaming that from the rooftops only for that point to fall on deaf leftist ears.

You mean deaf Republican ears.  Because they are the ones funding it.

[Wingnut]

Stop handing out 'free shit' to non-citizens, and we'll no longer have an immigration problem.

I never use to be this way.  But then something changed.  I'll take  "Gee I wonder why?" for 1000 Alex.