KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

We're on the radio from 1 until 4, and then after 4 o'clock, it's John Cobalt show on demand.

And you could listen to what you missed on the podcast.

There's always been a lot of outright lies on how much the illegal alien issue

costs us. And there's always been claims that illegal alien households are not eligible

for welfare and do not get any welfare. Well, the Center for Immigration Studies found out that really is not true.

They did a 22 analysis and found that 59% of illegal alien households get at least benefits

from one major welfare program.

And 52% of legal immigrants get benefits as well.

So how could this be? The rate of households headed by U.S. born people, well, I'm not going to get into all the details on this. We'll get,

we'll do some more details later, but we'll stick with the main thing. Fifty-nine percent of illegal alien households, they get some kind of welfare benefits. Let's get Stephen Kamarata on

from the Center for Immigration Studies. Stephen, welcome again. How are you?

Doing well. Thanks for having me.

Explain this because it is, I've heard it many times that illegal immigrant households

do not get welfare benefits. So what specific benefits are we talking about?

Yeah, so the benefits looking at here are the cash benefits like the EITC or SSI or what's called Tennis or the food programs like WIC and SNAP and food stamps and free school lunch and breakfast.

We also looked at Medicaid and public and subsidized housing.

Now, the short answer is how do illegal

limits affect your main concern or main issue is mainly, not entirely, on behalf of U.S.

born children. 90% of all children in illegal households are U.S. born. And so that gives it.

In addition to that, states like California, actually,

and I can give you some California numbers, California is big enough to break out separately.

...