Thread: Most illegal immigrants near or below poverty line, study...

Friday, November 30, 2007 - 11:02 AM MST
Most illegal immigrants near or below poverty line, study shows

The Business Journal of Phoenix - by Mike Sunnucks Phoenix Business Journal
A new study released Thursday shows illegal immigrants in Arizona and elsewhere in the U.S. are toiling at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder.

The report by the Center for Immigration Studies found:

73 percent of Arizona's illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children are living in poverty or near poverty.
The average household income for illegal immigrants in Arizona is $34,800, compared with $68,800 for citizens.
69 percent of illegal immigrants in Arizona do not have health insurance.
32 percent of Arizona households headed by illegal immigrants receive some kind of government welfare assistance (usually aid for dependent children born in the U.S.).
The Arizona numbers are similar to those in California and nationally.

Most illegal immigrants move to Arizona, California and Texas from extreme poverty in Mexico and Latin America. They often work in low-paying, labor-intensive jobs in construction, food service, landscaping and agriculture.

The CIS report estimates there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., including 579,000 in Arizona, 2.8 million in California and 1.7 million in Texas.

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stor ... ily58.html

Everyone should read up on what happend with the riots in France. We are dangerously moving close to that in the US.

This is nothing more than modern day slavery. Corporations making huge amounts of cash, paying minimal wages to Illegal Aliens which in turn is turning the working class citizen into the working class poor...

Maybe one of the reasons is they are here illegally and very well could be working under a different id therefore putting an added drain on the Social Services System. Does the name Elvira come to mind anyone?