According to , the number of welfare cards in Massachusetts exploded by 35% from June 2023 to May 2024. boston herald.
The massive increase in electronic benefit cards (EBTs) reveals a massive influx of poor immigrants and an increasing exodus of Bay State middle-class residents to cities with cheaper housing, lower taxes, and higher wages. It helps explain what you're doing.
“In just over a year, an astonishing 672,483 new EBT cards have been added to welfare rolls. This tally is fueling calls for an audit of welfare agencies.” of herald's Friday report Said.
“According to data obtained by Tainton State Senate candidate, the number of ‘active EBT cards’ in Massachusetts has increased by 34.6%. [who] shared with Herald,” said the report.
The top five locations for EBT cards include Brockton, Dorchester, Codman Square, New Bedford, and Lawrence. herald Reported.
President Joe Biden's lawmakers are helping penniless immigrants settle in the United States by giving them access to SNAP and other aid. Immigrants are legally exempt from U.S. spending as Biden's lawmakers grant them temporary legal status under the contested “parole” immigration program and the Temporary Protected Status program. are eligible to receive it.
What Bay State residents get SNAP funds for food Through the state's Department of Transition Assistance (DTA). state's SNAP Award It costs $291 per month for an individual and $973 per month for a family of four. As people's income increases, their payments decrease.
The state's Democratic government and many local elites are eager to welcome Biden's immigrants with welfare and housing, in part because they want more They want cheap foreign labor, they want poor consumers, they want renters, and they want all the federal money flowing from Washington to immigrants. , D.C.
“There are approximately 355,000 illegal and inadmissible immigrants living in Massachusetts, with approximately 50,000 new immigrants entering the state since 2021,” the report states. July 2024 Report By the Center for Immigration Studies. The report adds:
Massachusetts taxpayers spent more than 1 billion dollars The emergency shelter system has so far been busy with the task of housing undocumented immigrants and thousands of newly arrived immigrants who arrived under the Biden administration's controversial parole program. State budget officials expect more spending will be needed. $1.8 billion over the next two years.
Progressives and leftists celebrate the arrival of immigrants. For example, left-wing lawyers are said to have been mobilized to help arriving immigrants enroll in federal and state aid programs and obtain permits to work in jobs that help wealthy Americans. April 2024 Report At BerkshireEagle.com:
“Lawyers love doing this,” said Susan Church, chief operating officer of Refugee and Immigration Services, which developed the idea for the program. “The first program in Quincy alone had such a huge response that we couldn't even accommodate all the lawyers who wanted to participate. … Lawyers are working hard to get as many of these cases as possible. There was a heated competition among some lawyers to see who could break the record for the most applications filed in a single day.”
The pilot program is funded in the following ways: [state’s] Budget for Refugee and Immigration Services, estimated cost is $800,000.
Ordinary Americans are suffering from lower wages, higher housing costs, and more diverse communities and schools due to the government's influx of immigrants. For example, “Massachusetts' median home price is $628,998 and has increased 6.6% over the past year,” Zillow says. reported In October.
These government pockets and citizen pressure are pushing many Massachusetts residents into a corner. Before migration defender — from home, from Boston, and from the state.
“Although most states have grown in population over the past three years, Massachusetts is one of 14 states to have lost population, along with the District of Columbia,” MassLive.com reported May 17, 2024:
According to Census estimates, the Bay State's population was 31,534 fewer people as of July 1, 2023 than it was on April 1, 2020, when the 2020 U.S. Census was conducted, which is almost This is a decrease of 0.5%.
The largest population decline was in and around Boston. The city of Boston itself lost about 25,000 people, or 3.7% of its population, between 2020 and 2023, according to the census. The neighboring municipalities of Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop all lost more than 5% of their populations.
The Middlesex County town of Shirley experienced the largest population loss, from 7,438 people as of the 2020 census to an estimated 6,851 people as of July 1, 2023, a decrease of 587 people, or nearly 8%.
But political leaders believe that in place of dead Americans, Biden's immigrants will accept lower wages, pay higher rents for smaller homes, and ultimately vote Democratic because of their poverty. could be replaced with
This rapid displacement of the American middle class is also causing a widening wealth gap between the top and bottom of Boston's population, the report says. CBS News Coverage for September 2024: ” [U.S. Census] Data shows that about 20% of households report incomes above $200,000. However, 27% report an annual income of less than $50,000. ”
New immigrants and their EBT cards also allow employers to maximize profits by minimizing investment in the high-tech machinery needed to pay decent salaries in the United States.
For example, “Musette Jean-Pierre, a recent immigrant from Haiti, helps process orders and makes sure hats are properly finished before packing them into clear plastic bags.” April 2024 A report from WBUR.org states:
[The low-tech sport textile company] The company employs approximately 200 people, 60 of whom work in the manufacturing facility, the majority of whom are immigrants. Some have lived here for years, while others, like Jean-Pierre, are new here. Like many businesses in Massachusetts, [the company] I'm glad I have it. This is an economic reality that is often overlooked in political discussions as more immigrants arrive in the state.
The production team consists of workers from Haiti, Brazil, Portugal, Guatemala and Colombia. “That's what America is about,” said production supervisor Golete Sylvia, who said the factory will soon be operating six days a week as golf season heats up. “We're always busy,” she said.
This migration addiction is visible in many Democratic-run cities, including New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and is spreading from Boston.
When cities double down on immigration rather than urban reform, they lose more middle-class Americans; michael lind Written in September 2023 article For compact magazines.
“The pyramid scheme of international migration is the only thing that can avoid a destructive demographic loop.” [badly managed cities]” he wrote. “Only a steady drip of morphine from low-wage international immigrants, and subsidies from taxpayers living elsewhere, destroyed these traditional cities like Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, and St. Louis after World War II. “This prevents cities from shrinking to a more sustainable size,” he wrote.
