Should Illegal Immigrants Get Welfare? Compton vs. West Hollywood | Man on the Street

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How many illegal immigrants in the U.S. are on welfare? According to a recent study, 59% of illegal alien households receive at least one major form of government handouts. Aldo visits West Hollywood and the city of Compton to see if people in both cities think it’s fair for American taxpayers to be footing the bill.
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what's up guys Alo here with Prager youu
a new study found that three in five
illegal immigrants was on taxpayer
funded welfare so today I'm in Compton
California to ask people what they think
about this and then I'm heading over to
West Hollywood and asking the same
question let's do it so a new study came
out and showed that three and five
illegal immigrants was on taxpayer
funded welfare what do you think about
that um to be honest I really feel they
it shouldn't be like that because it's
already hard enough for us you know not
in no shade but should illegal
immigrants receive welfare I think is is
crashing the country right now just by
them doing that it seem like if you hear
illegal you're cutting down on something
somebody else should be getting should
illegal immigrants receive taxpayer
funded welfare yes yes uh I think so
they're here and they're contributing so
they should have the same access to the
same programs that we do definitely yeah
why I just think that everybody should
be treated equally at the end of the day
we're we're all humans I I don't like
calling people illegal immigrants I'll
just call them melons no I wouldn't
describe him as that the state of
California has been paying health
insurance for illegal immigrants since
2019 this program in this insurance will
cover things like sex change operations
and will cost over $3 billion a year do
you think this is a good use of our tax
dollars not
really when they illegally come and they
taking away from people that's here
legally that's working and contributing
I don't think that's right why is that
it's not right I don't hardly get in
insurance and I work every day I've been
working since I was 12 years old and I
don't hardly get no insurance but should
the Mexican taxpayer pay for my health
insurance if I went over there tomorrow
I think under the right circumstances we
go to Mexico we're not getting free
healthcare are we we not even going to
make it back no matter of fact we can't
go nowhere we can't go anywhere and get
anything the common ground is not to
keep giving and and giving and giving
that that is about just called working
reward so if you want to give if they
need something they should work for it
it's unfair to people who actually
actually pay taxes I think it's very
easy for all of us to suggest that they
broke the law to come here and they're
they're somehow criminals they are
they're felons okay you know what I'm
sorry I think I now I get your direction
so I'm done but thank you okay all right
is you didn't want to answer the
questions no I'm good thank you all
right not not everyone wants to answer
the hard questions but uh that's what
we're doing
here the United States Department of
Housing and Development uh did a stud
and they showed that homelessness could
be solved for $20 billion oh so we're
spending 150 billion on the cost of all
immigrants is that a good use of our tax
dollars um no because I feel like it's a
lot of people on the street $20 million
or billion dollars could get everybody
off the street they should do that first
it's so much homeless people kids need
food clothes and everything we have uh
infrastructure issues the roads aren't
fixed you know there's plenty of other
um areas where the money could be going
that money should be going to uh more
resource is for the taxpaying citizen
not people just coming over the border
with no screening or anything like that
I don't think any of us know where our
taxes are going I think that's a really
bad issue that we have going on if they
are coming to go through the right
process and um become legal and do it
the correct way and and maybe our
government can help them go through that
process and I have no problem with
someone who's here legally who's gone
through the system and gone through all
the right steps but at some point you
know the US is a nightclub and we're at
capacity well guys that's it for this
video really interesting topic today I
was really interested to see how
different the answers could be so close
and in two different cities here in LA
but still had a little bit of Common
Ground here at the end if you guys
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I don't know if we're ready for this
don't answer why it's a good topic all
right I didn't want to answer the
questions either tough time here in most
Hollywood but we rage on hey guys thanks
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