The Effect of Welfare on Muslim Immigration

The Effect of Welfare on Muslim Immigration

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Refugees from Muslim-majority countries tap American welfare programs at levels unseen by the poorest immigrants from elsewhere.

BY CounterJihad · @CounterjihadUS | March 31, 2016

When asked to explain why radical Islamic violence occurs at a much higher rate in Europe than in America, activist Ann Corcoran says that there is only one difference.  “They have been seeing the colonization longer and [thus] the percentage of the Muslim population is higher than ours is here in America.”

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There is another difference, however, which explains why not all of Europe has been seeing immigration by Muslim refugees at the same rate.  In Spain, the only Western European country that was once ruled by a caliphate, the mass immigration is not occurring.  This is because Spain, which has a high native unemployment rate, is treating its own citizens as the priority for government aid.

An estimated 98% of Syrian refugees move on to other European countries, Francisco Cansino the director of Spanish Refugee Aid Commission in Malaga says.  “They don’t stay. They leave because they think their chances are better in other countries. They ask to leave the same day they arrive. They say they have relatives in Europe,” Cansino added.
Refugees at the CEAR center in Malaga complain about the lack of benefits for refugees in Spain and say that asylum processing times are much longer than in other European countries. Some of them say that staying in Spain would mean being jobless (Spain has over a 25% unemployment rate) and being left without hope for a better future.

In the United States, by contrast, refugees are being assisted in laying claim to generous welfare benefits.  According to a government report, nearly four in ten are enrolled in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program alone.  Among immigrants from Latin America, though many are quite poor when they arrive, the rate is below ten percent.  Among immigrants from Southeast Asia, it is even lower than that.

Nor is it only TANF.  More than three quarters are enrolled in Medicaid.  More than a third are enrolled in Supplemental Security Income.  Nearly ninety percent are on food stamps.