Research Shows Immigrants Are Not A Drain on U.S. Resources

“However, research shows that immigrants are far less likely to burden the federal government than native-born Americans; if anything, they bolster it. Organizations with anti-immigration agendas, which have undoubtedly influenced the Trump administration, ‘have their own ways of slicing and dicing the data,’ says Gabrielle Lessard, senior policy attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. Here's what the data says about immigrants and federal benefit programs.”