Legal Immigration - The Number Democrats Don't Want You to See

Will Cain Just Said What Nobody in Washington Will Admit About Legal Immigration

Democrats spent years telling you the border was the only immigration problem worth fixing.

Now a Fox News host just blew that argument apart with one number.

Will Cain put the data on the screen and said out loud what politicians in both parties have been too afraid to touch – and what he revealed changes the entire immigration conversation. More than half of all households headed by legal immigrants – people Washington politicians assured you were carefully screened and self-sufficient – are drawing federal welfare benefits.

Fifty-two percent. That's the figure Cain cited on The Will Cain Show, and it tracks directly with data from the Center for Immigration Studies' 2024 analysis. Legal immigrant households use welfare at a rate that outpaces American-born households by thirteen points.

The federal government spends roughly $1 trillion a year on welfare programs. States pile another $300 billion on top just for Medicaid. Every legal immigrant household drawing benefits pulls from the same pool your grandchildren will be paying off.

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