Activists are calling for more refugees and immigrants to be brought to Minnesota and resettled, even as millions of illegal aliens continue to flow across the border to fill welfare rolls. There is.
More than 1,500 refugees were generated bring up The number sent to the Gopher State in 2023 will be triple the number sent to the state by federal agents in 2022. And this is an increase from the 258 people sent in 2021. star tribune report.
The number of refugees was low under President Donald Trump, but this year 443 people arrived from Somalia, and other groups came from Congo and Ethiopia, the newspaper said.
But Minnesota activists expect as many as 2,400 people to come this year, said Ben Warren, director of refugee services for the Minnesota Council of Churches. Warren has been ramping up staffing and said, “I think generally everyone is prepared and ready to take in a large number of refugees.”
Expectations for new arrivals are rising after President Joe Biden moves to increase the number of immigrants allowed into the country. Biden raised that number to 125,000 in 2021, even though resettlement efforts proved inadequate to the task and the numbers fell short.
Still, 170,000 Ukrainians entered the United States, as did 30,000 Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians.
The number of refugees costs Americans billions of dollars each year. In 2018, the United States spent about $100 billion supporting 606,000 needy refugees since 2014.
But costs continue to rise. In 2021, it is estimated that 64 percent of Afghan refugees remain on welfare after being resettled in the United States.
At the time, Breitbart News reported that the number of Afghan immigrant households living at or near the U.S. poverty line was nearly 51 percent. This number is significantly higher than for households headed by native-born Americans, about 27 percent of whom live in poverty or near poverty.
But Joe Biden wants more. Immediately after his inauguration, Biden called for billions more dollars to be poured into welfare programs for refugees.
Last year, nearly 60 percent of households headed by undocumented immigrants were reported to be receiving at least one major form of welfare.
In December, Stephen Camarota and Karen Zeigler of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) noted that undocumented immigrants rely on welfare “significantly more” than native-born Americans.
Approximately 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants are on welfare, compared to 52 percent of households headed by legal immigrants. On the other hand, less than 4 out of 10 of her households headed by a native-born American are receiving some form of welfare.
“… [T]”This is largely because the U.S. welfare system is primarily designed to help children from low-income families, many of whom are immigrants,” the study said.
The group says immigrant households use food stamps, Medicaid benefits and earned income tax credits far more than legal citizens.
“Compared to U.S.-born-headed households, immigrant-headed households are more likely to use food programs (36% vs. 25% of U.S.-born) and Medicaid (37% vs. 25% of U.S.-born).” ) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (16%; 12% for U.S.-born persons),” the CIS report states.
Biden's steady increase in refugee programs and ever-increasing welfare spending on illegal and other immigrants runs counter to what Americans want.
Polls consistently show that Americans want to close the door Joe Biden opened on immigration.Recent Rasmussen reports Indicated 56% of likely voters want to reduce legal immigration levels to at least 750,000 people per year, including reducing the number of people entering the country to less than 500,000 per year. This includes those who answered yes.
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