Title: FACT CHECK: Do Illegal Refugees Get $3,874 a Month Through Federal Assistance?
Headings: FACT CHECK: Do Illegal Refugees Get $3,874 a Month Through Federal Assistance?
FACT CHECK: Do Illegal Refugees Get $3,874 a Month Through Federal Assistance?
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False
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What Are Illegal Refugees?
A Case of Mistaken Country
Refugee and Immigrant Policy in the U.S.
Do Illegal Immigrants Get Welfare?
Illegal Immigrants and Statistics

Content: It stipulated that even legal immigrants can’t take advantage of federal benefits unless they’ve lived in the U.S. for at least five years. They do have some benefits like access to public school education. But much of the burden to support migrants is disproportionately placed on state governments. Illegal Immigrants and Statistics
A political ad falsely claimed that immigrants receive social security. Statistics have shown that most undocumented immigrants and their employers contribute around $12.0 billion a year to the social security trust fund. Indeed, immigrants are ineligible for federal welfare even though they pay taxes. And even though they are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid, the U.S. government doesn’t discriminate in times of emergency. Medical professionals are expected to treat any case of an emergency regardless of the patient’s immigration status. Legal and illegal migrants have been vilified by grossly exaggerating their access to federal welfare. But the evidence that they are a minor burden on the public welfare system is in clear contradistinction to anti-immigration claims.