{"id":2054,"date":"2012-11-29T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2015-07-30T16:43:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:43:59","slug":"yes-welfare-use-by-immigrants-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/11\/29\/yes-welfare-use-by-immigrants-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Welfare Use by Immigrants is Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welfare use by immigrants has continued to rise despite claims by economists that immigration is a net benefit. FAIR has documented the many costs of illegal immigration (And legal immigration) in our cost studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mexican President Backs Amnesty Effort<\/h3>\n

“Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday backed President Barack Obama’s planned push for U.S. immigration reform, pledged cooperation on border security and promised efforts to reduce violence in his own country. Three weeks after winning re-election, Obama held White House talks with Pena Nieto, who is due to take office on Saturday, to begin forging a personal bond and discuss shared challenges that have sometimes created fraught relations between their countries,” the Chicago Tribune<\/a> reports.”<\/p>\n

House Ready to Pass STEM Bill<\/h3>\n

“Despite White House opposition, the House appears likely to pass a bill this week that would allow more foreign students who graduate from U.S. schools with advanced technical degrees to stay in the country. The House failed to pass the bill, drafted by Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, when it was brought to the floor in September under a procedure that requires a two-thirds vote to pass. But based on the vote from that first attempt, the legislation appears to have enough support to pass the chamber this week by a majority vote,” Yahoo News says<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, Welfare Use by Immigrants is Growing<\/h3>\n

“Here\u2019s a perplexing pair of statistics: Compared with native-born Americans, immigrants are more likely to start a business \u2014 and they\u2019re also more likely to depend on welfare,” says Jillian Kay Melchior at National Review.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Two policy trends are driving the problem. First, the United States has promoted broader welfare use in recent years, also leading campaigns that market social aid specifically to immigrants. And second, our immigration rules are not crafted to weed out would-be freeloaders and give preference to highly skilled, highly educated applicants.”<\/p>\n

Georgia Considering Appeal to Supreme Court<\/h3>\n

“The long-running legal battle over Georgia\u2019s illegal immigration law could continue for months and keep a hotly debated part of the statute on hold if the state decides to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Georgia officials said Tuesday that they were still considering their options after the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta rejected their request for a rehearing in the case. The state had asked the appeals court to reconsider its decision against a part of the law that would punish people who knowingly transport or harbor illegal immigrants while committing other crimes. In August, the court ruled the measure is pre-empted by federal law, which already prohibits such activities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welfare use by immigrants has continued to rise despite claims by economists that immigration is a net benefit. FAIR has documented the many costs of illegal immigration (And legal immigration) in our cost studies. Mexican President Backs Amnesty Effort “Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday backed President Barack Obama’s planned push for U.S. immigration<\/p>\n

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