America 1 Loc: South Miami

63% of Non-Citizen Households Access Welfare Programs
Compared to 35% of native households
Welfare use is higher for every type of immigrant household than for native households, with the exception of housing programs
The share of immigrant households using at least one welfare program is higher than natives in every top immigrant-receiving state
https://cis.org/Report/63-NonCitizen-Households-Access-Welfare-Programs

Most i*****l i*******ts in the US receive government benefits, costing taxpayers billions
U.S. officials expect a million additional i*****l i*******ts this fiscal year, as the Border Patrol is currently apprehending up to 4,000 a day.
Most will claim asylum, entitling them to government benefits.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-cost-of-illegal-immigration-migrants-cost-us-taxpayers-billions-a-year

JohnCo

Nicely worded. I am doubtful about the content.

I wondered whether I could discount your sources. I shall quote (about them) from 3 different websites. When I quote from Wikipedia, I'm sure some here will discount _that_ as a source (though I've read it's pretty good, anyway); but I shall also quote from cato.org and mediabiasfactcheck.com.

I immediately felt I could write off "foxnews" (more about them in a few minutes) so first I looked up your other source: cis.org: "Center For Immigration Studies":

"The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an anti-immigration think tank. It favors far lower immigration numbers, and produces analyses to further those views. The CIS was founded by historian Otis L. Graham and eugenicist and white nationalist John Tanton. The organization was founded in 1985 as a spin-off from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and is one of a number of anti-immigration organizations founded by Tanton, along with FAIR and NumbersUSA.

"Reports published by CIS have been disputed by scholars on immigration, fact-checkers such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, Snopes, media outlets such as The Washington Post, CNN and NBC News, and immigration-research organizations. The organization has "significant influence in the [Trump] White House",[3] and has been cited by members of the Trump administration to defend its immigration policies.[4] The Southern Poverty Law Center describes CIS as a h**e group with ties to the American nativist movement.[5] CIS has said that the designation is false and, in January 2019, filed a lawsuit against the SPLC over the question,[6][7] which was dismissed in September 2019.[8][9]"

(That quote is from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies )

The above mentions "FAIR" (as Federation for American Immigration Reform). I remember FAIR is also the acronym for: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
(fair.org)
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting is a media criticism organization based in New York City (according to Wikipedia). That's incidental here, but of course I wanted to look it up since the same acronym is used for two almost mutually-antithetical organizations. Maybe that will amuse somebody.

I did not go deep; I just poked around to get a general idea of what the organization might be. Here's another quote about it (this is the one from cato.org):

"SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 1:08PM
"FAIR’s “Fiscal Burden of I*****l I*********n” Study Is Fatally Flawed

"By Alex Nowrasteh

"The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is dev**ed to reducing legal and i*****l i*********n. Its recent report, “The Fiscal Burden of I*****l I*********n on United States Taxpayers (2017)” by Matthew O’Brien, Spencer Raley, and Jack Martin, estimates that the net fiscal costs of i*****l i*********n to U.S. taxpayers is $116 billion. FAIR’s report reaches that conclusion by vastly overstating the costs of i*****l i*********n, undercounting the tax revenue they generate, inflating the number of i*****l i*******ts, counting millions of U.S. citizens as i*****l i*******ts, and by concocting a method of estimating the fiscal costs that is rejected by all economists who work on this subject.

"FAIR’s Errors

"Merely using the correct numbers when it comes to the actual size of the i*****l i*******t population, the correct tax rates, and the effect of immigrants on property values lowers the net fiscal cost by 87 percent to 97 percent, down to $15.6 billion or $3.3 billion, respectively. Below is a list of FAIR’s errors and how the correct numbers affect the results:"

(That's as far as I read in that web page, which is: https://www.cato.org/blog/fairs-fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-study-fatally-flawed )

Next I looked at Fox. I've previously heard that Fox News, when pressed, calls itself "entertainment", not "news". The following quotes are from: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news/ :

"As of October 2018, Fox News has added to their terms of use that they are an entertainment company: “Company furnishes the Company Sites and the Company Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment.”

"On 6/13/2020 Fox News ran digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone."

This one's drier, but from the same web page:

"Overall, we rate Fox News strongly Right-Biased due to editorial positions and story se******n that favors the right. We also rate them Mixed factually and borderline Questionable based on poor sourcing and the spreading of conspiracy theories that later must be retracted after being widely shared. Further, Fox News would be rated a Questionable source based on numerous failed fact checks by hosts and pundits, however, straight news reporting is generally reliable, therefore we rate them Mixed for factual reporting."

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

great information John,,, thanks...

and welcome to OPP..

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Good grief can’y you come up with something new and interesting?? This stuff has really gotten old and boring..

rumitoid

Is that my fault or the GOP's?

America 1 Loc: South Miami

key findings
n i*****l i*********n costs u.s. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and
local level. the bulk of the costs — some $84 billion — are absorbed by state and local
governments.
n the annual outlay that i*****l a***ns cost u.s. taxpayers is an annual amount per nativeheaded household of nearly $1,000 after accounting for estimated tax collections. the fiscal
impact per household varies considerably because the greatest share of the burden falls on
state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on the size of the i*****l a***n population in
that locality
n education for the children of i*****l a***ns constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at
an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and
local governments.
n at the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal
aliens. at the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs
associated with i*****l i*********n is rec**ped through taxes collected from i*****l a***ns.
n most i*****l a***ns do not pay income taxes. among those who do, much of the revenues
collected are refunded to the i*****l a***ns when they file tax returns. many are also claiming
tax credits resulting in payments from the u.s. treasury
https://www.fairus.org/sites/default/files/2017-08/USCostStudy_2010.pdf

Your taxpayer dollars are footing the spiraling costs of i*****l i*********n
The costs of i*****l i*********n are comprehensive. Even after deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by i*****l i*******ts, the 12.5 million of them living in the country results in a $116 billion burden on the economy and taxpayers each year. About two-thirds of this amount is absorbed by local and state taxpayers, who are often the least unable to share the costs.
One of the major drivers of the increasing costs is the 4.2 million children of migrants, who automatically become American citizens. Taxpayers are indeed on the hook for over $45 billion in state and federal education spending annually, not to mention the added burden of increased social welfare dollars. Much of the almost $30 billion in medical and assistance funding is sparked by the fact that noncitizen families in the United States are twice as likely to receive welfare payments than native-born families.
A full half of noncitizens receive Medicaid, compared to 23 percent of native-born citizens, while almost half of noncitizens are on food stamps. Of particular concern is that noncitizens who stay in the long term are more likely to use these programs than those who just arrived. Half of the new noncitizens receive welfare, but the figure jumps to a stunning 70 percent among those who have been in the United States for more than 10 years.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/439930-your-taxpayer-dollars-are-footing-the-spiraling-costs-of-illegal-immigration

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

You and this author have it backward. The republican v**ers aren't following Trump's lead. Trump is following the republican v**ers lead. Trump is actually fighting for what the v**ers want. Something the professional republican politicians haven't done in a very long time.