60% of illegal alien households in US are on some form of welfare according to new study | Eastern NC Now

A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies finds that 47% of all immigrant households, legal and illegal are on welfare of some type.  When it comes to illegal immigrants, that number rises to 60%.  This is costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars per year.

Refugees approved for asylum automatically get access to welfare programs, which is why groups like Somalis are heavily on welfare, in the 80% range.  Legal immigrants are banned from most welfare for the first five years they are in the country and that is largely enforced.  Illegal aliens are supposed to be banned by federal law from welfare, but some liberal states give it to them anyway.  The Trump administration has been trying to crack down on that.  One backdoor is that if they have an anchor baby, then the anchor baby is legally entitled to welfare according to current interpretation.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/03/20/feds-bust-huge-meth-super-lab-charge-five-illegal-aliens-n2200451

Europe is seeing the same trends with illegal aliens.  In Germany, for example, 61% of what is called "citizens money" (buergergeld) actually goes to people without German passports, mostly illegal aliens.