Do you think immigrants are only interested in welfare?

That's the line from the right, but is it true? The only immigrants I know (I don't know whether they're illegal or not) are very hard-working. So going by anecdotal evidence, I would say "no".

My one qualm would be they all seem to have large families and their families keep getting larger. Seems like if your financial resources are limited, you might put less of an emphasis on a large family, but I'm just saying. That happens with "native born" Americans as well.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

I lived in university housing about 25 years ago and there was an African couple who had one baby after another using our medical facilities and getting food stamps and housing aid. They had 6 children and the oldest was in first grade. The woman said she wasn’t having any more but she did, her husband said they’d have as many as God allowed (because he wasn’t supporting them)...the woman ended up going to work at a nursing home, got kicked in the stomach by a patient with Altzeimhers, she was pregnant for a 7th time and her husband said he was suing the nursing home. Seems like one big scam family and I don’t know if the children ended up the same. The man was playing his education visa to the hilt. I think certain groups are more likely to scam for benefits than others, although someone from this couple’s country told me he talked to the man about spacing his family out but the man didn’t care.