The effect on food and welfare support to the poor in the government shutdown has revealed that the noncitizen and illegal immigrant community has been benefiting from the taxpayer-funded programs more than American citizens — by far.
According to newly analyzed Census Bureau data, nearly half of the immigrant community taps into the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which was suspended in some states due to the shutdown.
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