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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Loretta78 · 46-50, F

I am a social worker and I am working since 6 years with refugees.

I would say there are BOTH groups:

Some refugees are coming really just to collect welfare, but a BIG PART of my clients are coming here because of really, really problems. Especially those people try hard to integrate theirselves in my country as fast as possible and many of them get a work so that they don´t need welfare anymore (at least not much).

From the other immigrants I know many who open their own business. They also don´t live from welfare. Of course, some immigrants might be just interested in welfare, but I think this is only a small part... :-?