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Reports and articles on how mass immigration impact and welfare cost are presented below.

Welfare Reform and Immigration: A Prognosis, by Norman Matloff, CIS, 1996
"Economics professor George Borjas of Harvard University has examined both cash welfare, such as SSI and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and noncash services, such as Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in California) and food stamps. He found that, in California, 40 percent of all such welfare dollars goes to immigrant-headed households. Borjas states, 'It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that the welfare problem in California is on the verge of becoming an immigrant problem.'"
Immigration and Welfare Magnets, by George J. Borjas, Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999.
"The empirical analysis indicates that immigrant welfare recipients are indeed more heavily clustered in high-benefit states than the immigrants who do not receive welfare, or than natives. As a result, the welfare participation rate of immigrants is much more sensitive to changes in welfare benefits than that of natives."
The High Cost of Cheap Labor - Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2004.
"Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household."
Back Where We Started - An Examination of Trends in Immigrant Welfare Use Since Welfare Reform, Steven A. Camerota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2003.
"The persistently high rate of welfare use by immigrant households is almost entirely explained by their heavy reliance on Medicaid, use of which has actually risen modestly... Consistent with previous research, this study finds that use of welfare programs does not decline significantly the longer immigrants live in the country."
Immigration and the Welfare State: Immigrant Participation in Means-Tested Entitlement Programs, by George J. Borjas and Hynette Hilton, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1996.
"21 percent of immigrant households receive some type of assistance, as compared with only 14 percent of native households."
A Progressive Indictment: Immigration Policy and Corporate Welfare, by Randall Burns, VDARE.com, 2005.
Even Republican economists like Milton Friedman accept that current immigration practices are 'subsidies.'"
Immigration and welfare reform: finally, taxpayers are being considered, by Lamar Smith, USA Today, 1997.
"By 2004, our broken immigration and welfare systems will cost taxpayers more than $70,000,000,000 each year."
The High Cost of Cheap Labor -Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, Center for Immigration Studies, 2004
"On average, illegal households pay more than $4,200 a year in all forms of federal taxes. Unfortunately, they impose costs of $6,950 per household."
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Immigrant Welfare Use, by George J. Borjas, Center for Immigration Studies, 2002.
"It seems that immigrants quickly learned that the naturalization certificate held the key to many types of public assistance denied to non-citizens."
Public Charge Doctrine - A Fundamental Principle of American Immigration Policy, by James R. Edwards, Jr., Center for Immigration Studies, 2001.
"Public concern over high rates of immigrant welfare usage led to the limitations of welfare eligibility and tightening of public charge doctrine in the 1996 welfare and immigration reform laws. This fits with the trend among federal legislators that immigration has become increasingly associated with redistributive programs."
Distorted Incentives - The U.S. Pays the University of California Twice as Much to Educate Foreign Graduate Students as American Ones
Illegal immigrants are a factor in the budget gap math, by George Skelton, Los Angeles Time, 2009.
"let's be honest: Illegal immigration does cost California taxpayers a substantial wad, undeniably into the billions."
Illegal Immigrants and HR 3200: Estimate of Potential Costs to Taxpayers, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2009.
"We estimate the current cost of treating uninsured illegal immigrants at all levels of government to be $4.3 billion a year, primarily at emergency rooms and free clinics."
Measuring the Fallout: The Cost of the IRCA Amnesty After 10 Years, by David Simcox, Center for Immigration Studies, 1997.
The Impact of Immigration on California - Summary and Analysis of Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 1998.
"Immigrants as a group do not pay enough in taxes to cover their consumption of public services."
Immigrants at Mid-Decade: A Snapshot of America's Foreign-Born Population in 2005, Center for Immigration Studies, 2005.
"The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 29 percent, compared to 18 percent for native households."
Obama Links Health Insurance Reform and Comprehensive Immigration Reform (Amnesty), by Ronald W. Mortensen, Center for Immigration Studies, 2009.
"In order to garner the votes of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and to shore up support for his proposed health insurance reform from the National Council of La Raza and other Hispanic groups, President Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute last week that he would make health insurance available to everyone who is legally in the United States and that he would work to legalize illegal aliens by passing comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty)."
Immigration from Mexico: Study Examines Costs and Benefits for the United States, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2001.
"Even after welfare reform, an estimated 34 percent of households headed by legal Mexican immigrants and 25 percent headed by illegal Mexican immigrants used at least one major welfare program, in contrast to 15 percent of native households. Mexican immigrants who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, almost all of whom are legal residents, still have double the welfare use rate of natives."
Opening America's Borders: The high cost of cheap labor, Center for Immigration Studies, 2001.
"We estimated that welfare use by legal Mexicans is about 40 percent higher than for illegal workers. Legalization would almost certainly increase fiscal costs, not reduce them."
Flawed Assumptions Underlying Guestworker Programs, by Mark Krikorian, 2004.
"Due to their low levels of education, Mexican immigrants experience limited economic mobility in the United States... This poverty guarantees high levels of welfare use. Even after welfare reform, welfare use among Mexican immigrant households remains much higher than that of natives. Based on Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the same Census Bureau survey, an estimated 33.9 percent of households headed by a legal Mexican immigrant and 24.9 percent headed by an illegal Mexican immigrant used at least one major welfare program."
Guestworker Programs: A Threat to American Agriculture, by Mark Krikorian , Center for Immigration Studies, 2001.
"Two-thirds of Mexican immigrants and their young children live in or near poverty, 31 percent use at least one major federal welfare program (twice the rate of native-born households), and Mexican immigration since 1987 has added 3.3 million people to the ranks of the uninsured."
Out of Africa: Somali Bantu and the Paradigm Shift in Refugee Resettlement, by Don Barnett , Center for Immigration Studies, 2003.
"Today, the sponsoring organizations can place their charges in all welfare programs and public housing one month after arrival. The ongoing cost of welfare is never factored into official cost estimates of the refugee program."
Europe's Mujahideen: Where Mass Immigration Meets Global Terrorism, by Robert S. Leiken, Center for Immigration Studies, 2005.
"Yet no Western country had gone further than the Netherlands in accommodating its Muslim immigrants. Priding themselves on their trademark tolerance of minorities and dissenters, the Dutch welcomed tens of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers escaping wars and turmoil in Muslim countries. The immigrants then could avail themselves of generous welfare benefits and an affirmative action hiring policy."
Illegitimate Nation: An Examination of Out-of-Wedlock Births Among Immigrants and Natives, Center for Immigration Studies, 2007.
"Welfare use is also significantly higher for families with illegitimate children."
Welfare costs for illegal immigrants to be $432 million, by Jennifer McLain, San Gabriel Valley, 2008
"I spotted this in my email today from the office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich. It states that welfare costs for illegal immigration in LA County was over $36 million in March, which is projected to be at $432 million for the year...'The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year - not including the millions of dollars for education,' said Antonovich. 'With $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $432 million in welfare allocations, illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers.'"
Economy Slowed, But Immigration Didn't: The Foreign-Born Population, 2000-2004, Center for Immigration Studies, 2004.
"In California, for example, immigrant households account for 50 percent of all households using at least one major welfare program; in New York it's a third; and in Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and Arizona immigrant households account for between half and a third of those receiving welfare."

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Home About Studies Welfare Medicaid Hospital		A collective center for immigration studies on welfare cost Reports and articles on how mass immigration impact and welfare cost are presented below. Welfare Reform and Immigration: A Prognosis, by Norman Matloff, CIS, 1996 "Economics professor George Borjas of Harvard University has examined both cash welfare, such as SSI and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and noncash services, such as Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in California) and food stamps. He found that, in California, 40 percent of all such welfare dollars goes to immigrant-headed households. Borjas states, 'It is not too much of an exaggeration to say that the welfare problem in California is on the verge of becoming an immigrant problem.'" Immigration and Welfare Magnets, by George J. Borjas, Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999. "The empirical analysis indicates that immigrant welfare recipients are indeed more heavily clustered in high-benefit states than the immigrants who do not receive welfare, or than natives. As a result, the welfare participation rate of immigrants is much more sensitive to changes in welfare benefits than that of natives." The High Cost of Cheap Labor - Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2004. "Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household." Back Where We Started - An Examination of Trends in Immigrant Welfare Use Since Welfare Reform, Steven A. Camerota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2003. "The persistently high rate of welfare use by immigrant households is almost entirely explained by their heavy reliance on Medicaid, use of which has actually risen modestly... Consistent with previous research, this study finds that use of welfare programs does not decline significantly the longer immigrants live in the country." Immigration and the Welfare State: Immigrant Participation in Means-Tested Entitlement Programs, by George J. Borjas and Hynette Hilton, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1996. "21 percent of immigrant households receive some type of assistance, as compared with only 14 percent of native households." A Progressive Indictment: Immigration Policy and Corporate Welfare, by Randall Burns, VDARE.com, 2005. Even Republican economists like Milton Friedman accept that current immigration practices are 'subsidies.'" Immigration and welfare reform: finally, taxpayers are being considered, by Lamar Smith, USA Today, 1997. "By 2004, our broken immigration and welfare systems will cost taxpayers more than $70,000,000,000 each year." The High Cost of Cheap Labor -Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, Center for Immigration Studies, 2004 "On average, illegal households pay more than $4,200 a year in all forms of federal taxes. Unfortunately, they impose costs of $6,950 per household." The Impact of Welfare Reform on Immigrant Welfare Use, by George J. Borjas, Center for Immigration Studies, 2002. "It seems that immigrants quickly learned that the naturalization certificate held the key to many types of public assistance denied to non-citizens." Public Charge Doctrine - A Fundamental Principle of American Immigration Policy, by James R. Edwards, Jr., Center for Immigration Studies, 2001. "Public concern over high rates of immigrant welfare usage led to the limitations of welfare eligibility and tightening of public charge doctrine in the 1996 welfare and immigration reform laws. This fits with the trend among federal legislators that immigration has become increasingly associated with redistributive programs." Distorted Incentives - The U.S. Pays the University of California Twice as Much to Educate Foreign Graduate Students as American Ones Illegal immigrants are a factor in the budget gap math, by George Skelton, Los Angeles Time, 2009. "let's be honest: Illegal immigration does cost California taxpayers a substantial wad, undeniably into the billions." Illegal Immigrants and HR 3200: Estimate of Potential Costs to Taxpayers, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2009. "We estimate the current cost of treating uninsured illegal immigrants at all levels of government to be $4.3 billion a year, primarily at emergency rooms and free clinics." Measuring the Fallout: The Cost of the IRCA Amnesty After 10 Years, by David Simcox, Center for Immigration Studies, 1997. The Impact of Immigration on California - Summary and Analysis of Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 1998. "Immigrants as a group do not pay enough in taxes to cover their consumption of public services." Immigrants at Mid-Decade: A Snapshot of America's Foreign-Born Population in 2005, Center for Immigration Studies, 2005. "The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 29 percent, compared to 18 percent for native households." Obama Links Health Insurance Reform and Comprehensive Immigration Reform (Amnesty), by Ronald W. Mortensen, Center for Immigration Studies, 2009. "In order to garner the votes of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and to shore up support for his proposed health insurance reform from the National Council of La Raza and other Hispanic groups, President Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute last week that he would make health insurance available to everyone who is legally in the United States and that he would work to legalize illegal aliens by passing comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty)." Immigration from Mexico: Study Examines Costs and Benefits for the United States, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 2001. "Even after welfare reform, an estimated 34 percent of households headed by legal Mexican immigrants and 25 percent headed by illegal Mexican immigrants used at least one major welfare program, in contrast to 15 percent of native households. Mexican immigrants who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, almost all of whom are legal residents, still have double the welfare use rate of natives." Opening America's Borders: The high cost of cheap labor, Center for Immigration Studies, 2001. "We estimated that welfare use by legal Mexicans is about 40 percent higher than for illegal workers. Legalization would almost certainly increase fiscal costs, not reduce them." Flawed Assumptions Underlying Guestworker Programs, by Mark Krikorian, 2004. "Due to their low levels of education, Mexican immigrants experience limited economic mobility in the United States... This poverty guarantees high levels of welfare use. Even after welfare reform, welfare use among Mexican immigrant households remains much higher than that of natives. Based on Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the same Census Bureau survey, an estimated 33.9 percent of households headed by a legal Mexican immigrant and 24.9 percent headed by an illegal Mexican immigrant used at least one major welfare program." Guestworker Programs: A Threat to American Agriculture, by Mark Krikorian , Center for Immigration Studies, 2001. "Two-thirds of Mexican immigrants and their young children live in or near poverty, 31 percent use at least one major federal welfare program (twice the rate of native-born households), and Mexican immigration since 1987 has added 3.3 million people to the ranks of the uninsured." Out of Africa: Somali Bantu and the Paradigm Shift in Refugee Resettlement, by Don Barnett , Center for Immigration Studies, 2003. "Today, the sponsoring organizations can place their charges in all welfare programs and public housing one month after arrival. The ongoing cost of welfare is never factored into official cost estimates of the refugee program." Europe's Mujahideen: Where Mass Immigration Meets Global Terrorism, by Robert S. Leiken, Center for Immigration Studies, 2005. "Yet no Western country had gone further than the Netherlands in accommodating its Muslim immigrants. Priding themselves on their trademark tolerance of minorities and dissenters, the Dutch welcomed tens of thousands of refugees and asylum seekers escaping wars and turmoil in Muslim countries. The immigrants then could avail themselves of generous welfare benefits and an affirmative action hiring policy." Illegitimate Nation: An Examination of Out-of-Wedlock Births Among Immigrants and Natives, Center for Immigration Studies, 2007. "Welfare use is also significantly higher for families with illegitimate children." Welfare costs for illegal immigrants to be $432 million, by Jennifer McLain, San Gabriel Valley, 2008 "I spotted this in my email today from the office of Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich. It states that welfare costs for illegal immigration in LA County was over $36 million in March, which is projected to be at $432 million for the year...'The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year - not including the millions of dollars for education,' said Antonovich. 'With $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $432 million in welfare allocations, illegal immigration continues to have a devastating impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers.'" Economy Slowed, But Immigration Didn't: The Foreign-Born Population, 2000-2004, Center for Immigration Studies, 2004. "In California, for example, immigrant households account for 50 percent of all households using at least one major welfare program; in New York it's a third; and in Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and Arizona immigrant households account for between half and a third of those receiving welfare." Here is more information on CIS labor issues.
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