(11-10-2018, 12:47 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(11-10-2018, 11:51 AM)mikesez Wrote: Resettling refugees does cost money for about a year or two. Taxes help pay for it, but about the same amount of money comes from private charity. And if you do it right, most of the resettled refugees become productive citizens.

The statistics say otherwise. Over 51% of legal immigrants (which resettled refugees would be) use earnings forcibly taken from the fruits of labor of productive citizens. That number is around 30% for native born US citizens (which is still too high). The numbers for illegals are even higher. Scroll down to the chart in the link below.

Native vs. Immigrant Welfare use

I don't think that's an apples-to-apples comparison. I think they're using a very broad definition of government welfare when they look at the legal immigrants and a very narrow definition when they're looking at the native born. When you count payments from Social Security, SSID, EITC,and Medicare, the portion of native-born that collect money from the government is about 50%.

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