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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can illegal families even afford to live in DC given how expensive it is here?  Through subsidies that should probably be restricted to legal citizens and residents who have lived here for a while?[/quote]

Nope. The magic works this way:

1) work hard, often in several jobs

2) most important: be frugal. For example, share housing with another family (or with your extended one). Don't waste money on frivolities.[/quote]

Sort of. The method above is usually used by men and women who are single while in the US (they may have a spouse and children back in their home country)

What then often happens, is they have a child (this is where the term anchor baby originates) who is a legal US citizen and is entitled to welfare services such as food stamps, WIC, etc and the parent collects those benefits on the child's behalf. They might still continue to live in a shared housing situation and be frugal as well.  If the govt moves to deport the illegal parents, often this is avoided by claiming something like "family preservation".  [/quote]

We are mixing things here, but it's a good conversation.

OK, imagine they give birth to an American kid. Yes, that means they can collect food stamps. But NOPE, it does not mean they stop working as hard as before. They continue with the multiple jobs, and with the frugality, precisely motivated to do their best for said kid.

Net net, any study shows that immigrants add more to our revenues than they get back (because they rarely use entitlement programs, especially if they are undocumented)[/quote]

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