43% Of All Immigrants On Welfare After 20 years...

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Immigrants lag behind native-born Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who have been in the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, which argues that full assimilation is a more complex task than overcoming language or cultural differences.

The study, which covers all immigrants, legal and illegal, and their U.S.-born children younger than 18, found that immigrants tend to make economic progress by most measures the longer they live in the U.S. but lag well behind native-born Americans on factors such as poverty, health insurance coverage and homeownership.

The study, based on 2010 and 2011 census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.

The report was released at a time when both major presidential candidates have backed policies that would make it easier to immigrate legally and would boost the numbers of people coming to the U.S.

Full piece here:

Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/8/slow-path-to-progress-for-us-immigrants/

Meanwhile...

...Greece is in full-scale round-up mode to detain and deport all the illegal immigrants within its borders.

 

[jeninflorida]

but that 43% more votes for Obama

 

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Please don't say immigrants and welfare in the same sentence. More PC to say democrats needing a little assistance.

 

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[jeninflorida]

Welfare, the new career path for democrats!

I think that's a campaign slogan from Obama

 

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IRS told employees to ignore potential fraud in program used by immigrants

IRS supervisors ignored employees who tried to warn agency higher-ups of fraud in a program designed to collect taxes from immigrants, resulting in the agency paying out potentially bogus refunds.

The Treasury inspector general for tax administration said the IRS even eliminated some methods employees had used to figure out questionable refund requests, and that the agency doesn’t have the ability to verify applicants’ identity or foreign status.

Investigators “found an environment which discourages employees from detecting fraudulent applications,” said J. Russell George, the inspector general.

The IRS pays out $6.8 billion in refunds to taxpayers who file using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs), who are generally immigrants, here both legally and illegally. The amount of fraud was not stated.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/8/irs-paid-out-billions-bogus-refunds-under-program-/

 

[jeninflorida]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/8/irs-paid-out-billions-bogus-refunds-under-program-/

remember, no one ever accused government people of being smart

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/florida-home-files-741-tax-returns-single-gets-232459645.html

Why should this be an alarm, 741 tax returns to one address is not 800. Think of all the money that they saved!