Title: No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren't Stealing Your Benefits | HuffPost
Headings: No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Stealing Your Benefits
No, Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Stealing Your Benefits
What Undocumented Immigrants Receive vs. What They Don’t
How Undocumented Immigrants Contribute
Exaggerating Immigrant Access to Benefits
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Content: Let’s take a fact-based look at what benefits undocumented immigrants do and do not receive then in the United States. Download
Here’s a listing of benefits undocumented immigrants expressly do not receive: Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP)
Disability, aka Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Food stamps, aka The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Health insurance, aka insurance via the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Medicaid
Medicare
Social Security
Welfare
Here’s what undocumented immigrants may be eligible for: Emergency medical care, including ER visits and Emergency Medicaid
Schooling
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
Let’s hope that overwhelming majority of us can embrace the humanity of these immigrants and assume that — like anyone else who shows up at an ER — the should receive emergency care. Follow-up care? Not so much. Also, Emergency Medicaid accounts for less than 1 percent of the Medicaid budget. That means that undocumented immigrants receive may receive some (very few) benefits while living in the United States. It’s quite another thing, however, to suggest they’re stealing any benefits from American citizens. How Undocumented Immigrants Contribute
Any examination of the benefits undocumented immigrants receive would be woefully incomplete without considering what they also contribute.