WASHINGTON (June 6, 2007) As they debate
legalization for illegal immigrants, Senators would do
well to keep in mind the most recent data on welfare use by the people in question.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, nearly 60% of illegal aliens are from
Mexico and 80% of the total are from Latin America as a whole.
A new Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2006 Census Bureau data, which includes
legal and illegal immigrants, shows use of welfare by households headed by Mexican
and Latin American immigrants is more than double that of native households.
Among the findings:
51% of all Mexican immigrant households use at least one major welfare program and 28% use
more than one program. ? 40% use food assistance, 35% use Medicaid, 6% use cash
assistance.
45% of all Latin American immigrant households use at least one welfare program and 24%
use more than one program.
32% use food assistance, 31% use Medicaid, 6% use cash assistance.
20% of native households use at least one welfare program and 11% multiple programs.
11% use food assistance, 15% use Medicaid, 5% use cash assistance.
Immigration-related felony cases are swamping federal courts along the Southwest border,
forcing judges to handle hundreds more cases than their peers elsewhere. Judges in the
five, mostly rural judicial districts on the border carry the heaviest felony caseloads in
the nation.
Each judge in New Mexico, which ranked first, handled an average of 397 felony cases last
year, compared with the national average of 84. Federal judges in those five districts:
Southern and Western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California handled one-third
of all the felonies prosecuted in the nation's 94 federal judicial districts in 2005,
according to federal court statistics.
While Congress has increased the number of border patrol officers, the pace of the law
enforcement has eclipsed the resources for the court system. Judges say they are stretched
to the limit with cases involving drug trafficking or illegal immigrants who have also
committed serious crimes.
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