Why are people saying that the illegal immigrants are a burden to government services when....?

Question

they aren't eligible for any services, and the only health care service they can receive is Emergency Care? Please help me understand this!

http://americanaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/undocumented_assumptions

Undocumented Aliens Do Not Overburden Government Programs

It’s a widely held misperceptions: Undocumented immigrants pay no taxes but take advantage of a slew of taxpayer-supported federal benefits such as food stamps, Medicaid and Medicare (the health care programs for the poor and the elderly), Social Security, housing and hospital services. In fact, federal law bars undocumented alien access to all those benefits, with very few exceptions.

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/illegal_immigrants_health/2007/11/26/52385.html

Illegal Immigrants Not Health Care Burden: Study

Illegal Latino immigrants do not cause a drag on the U.S. health care system as some critics have contended and in fact get less care than Latinos in the country legally, researchers said on Monday.

Answer 1

I work in a Medicare Office and this country is paying for all Baby's that are born in this Country and all Medical Emergency's I say that is a big chunk of cash we are paying

Answer 2

They cost L.A. one billion a year and they and their kids take 25% of L.A.'s welfare, that's hardly not eligible LOL.

Nice try, use real links next time.

Answer 3

Because they are a burden. They spit out kid after kid on American soil and because those children ARE eligible they use them to leech off of our programs.

Answer 4

Hogwash , Besides Amarican lives .

There is another cost to illegal immigration besides lower wages and lost jobs. Communities and taxpayers pay the bills for their education, health care, and government benefits. Overcrowded classrooms, long waits at hospital emergency rooms, and expensive government services result from a failure to secure our borders.

In California alone, hospitals spend over $1 billion a year on health care for illegal immigrants. And the National Research Council has found that an immigrant with less than a high school education will, over his or her lifetime, impose a cost on taxpayers of $89,000. It is unfair to force legal residents and taxpayers to continue to pick up the tab.

Some say the taxes illegal immigrants pay offset the costs of providing them education, health care, and government benefits. But, at their low wages, most illegal immigrants don't even pay taxes. And when they do, their taxes don't cover other government services, like maintaining highways, providing for our national defense, and taking care of the needy and elderly.

Also, at their wages, if illegal immigrants participate in Social Security, they will get back $100,000 more than they pay in, further bankrupting the system for everyone else. The cost of illegal immigration is staggering. And it is growing by the minute.

Answer 5

Because by law, the American Medical Centers cannot refuse service for anyone who is critical, and while some suggest that is not the case... it is the case.

Because the illegal aliens use excellent forged identifications with stolen social security cards and zoom, zoom, zoom.. they are in and out before the Hospital gets the letter from SS saying no such person exists, or that is a stolen I.D.

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But lets look at the sources..

Such immigrants tend not to have a regular doctor or other health-care provider yet do not visit emergency rooms -- often a last resort in such cases -- with any more frequency than Latinos born in the United States, according to the report from the University of California's School of Public Health.

The finding from Alexander Ortega and colleagues at the school was based on a 2003 telephone survey of thousands of California residents, including 1,317 undocumented Mexicans, 2,851 citizens with Mexican immigrant parents, 271 undocumented Latinos from countries other than Mexico and 852 non-Mexican Latinos born in the United States.

About 8.4 million of the 10.3 million illegal aliens in the United States are Latino, of which 5.9 million are from Mexico, the report said.

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If you ask a criminal if he robs banks.. the answer is always... not unless I am desperate for money.  The report is bogus and silly, and NOT prepared by anyone who understand how to do a survey.  You don't ask the illegal aliens.. you ask the hospitals for example.  And when you do, you discover some 200 hospitals/medical centers in California have been closed by people who incurred bills which were subsequently not paid, and identified as belonging to people who were illegal aliens.

Fake I.D.s with stolen Social Security Numbers are used extensively to incur debts and boy howdy.. they hurt.

And yes.. they use all the rest of the freebies they can.

Answer 6

From the L.A. Times

1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County ( L.A. County has 10.2 million people)

are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are

predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angel es are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angel es are illegal aliens.

4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angel es County are to illegal alien

Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers

are Mexican nationals here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angel es County are living in garages.

7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angel es

are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

10. In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English.

3.9 million speak Spanish.

(There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County ).

(All the above from the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops,

but 29% are on welfare.

Over 70% of the United States ' annual population growth

(and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York )

results from immigration.

The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was,

(after subtracting taxes immigrants pay), a NET $70 BILLION/

year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University ]. The lifetime

fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average

adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE number.

29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

If they can come to this country to raise h**l and demonstrate by

the thousands, WHY can't they take charge over the corruption

in their own country?

We are a bunch of fools for letting this continue.

Answer 7

It is true.. for LOS ANGELES. We all know how bad the illegals are in LA and that gives all the illegals a bad rep.. the illegals that live in my area are not like that at all. Also, they do pay taxes if they receive a check. If they buy things in stores, they pay taxes. They just don't get $5,000 back in their tax return like we do.. Anyways, if the government can do whatever they want with tax money. If they want to build the worlds largest pool or something, I would prefer to have that money for me, but oh well.

Answer 8

If they have a green card they pay taxes and are eligible for all government benefits, resident tuition, and can sponsor relatives. the only down side is they have to register with Selective Service if they are between 18-25, and they cannot vote. The household can receive cash,food assistance and medical. Because of the level of education and number of dependents, there is no tax liability.

The other way to receive these benefits is to have an anchor baby. As a citizen the baby is eligible for all services.

Any one is eligible for emergency healthcare. By law they cannot be turned away. Unfortunately they flood emergency rooms with the flu and other illnesses that are not life threatening, because they do not want to go to a regular Dr. and pay for services.

Answer 9

Because it's easy to say they are using services without proof.

The service they do actually use is schooling.