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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet immigrants bring their elderly relatives who didn’t work a day here but get Medicare, Medicaid,subsidized housing and whatnot. 
Fwiw I am an immigrant. [/quote]

You have to have worked 10 years in the US to be eligible for Social Security/Medicare and it's a function of what you paid in. Stop using this thread to spread disinformation.[/quote]

They aren't eligible for regular social security or medicare until 40 quarters are worked.  The difference is that direct cash payments are usualy prohibited, along with some direct federal payments, but some states with block grants can issue benefits to lawful immigrants who have been here 5 years. In fact half of them do (see links below)!

Depending on what state they are in, they can be eligible for medicaid, housing vouchers, SNAP, subsidized energy bills and the like. They can be eligible for SSI under certain circumstances. The interesting thing is that when states take block grant money for these programs and provide them to lawful immigrants here for less than 5 years, they aren't considered a public charge! After 5 years things get easier.

https://www.nilc.org/issues/economic-support/overview-immeligfedprograms/
https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/overview-immigrants-eligibility-snap-tanf-medicaid-and-chip
https://www.uscis.gov/news/fact-sheets/public-charge-fact-sheet
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