When the goal of the program becomes profit, the quality of service to recipients suffers. 2000 Berkowitz, Bill. Rozen , Miriam. Immigrants should not be entitled to welfare benefits. The underlying framework for conservative policies regarding immigrants and welfare is, of course, racial.
Immigrants are more criminally inclined than the general U.S. population.
Immigrants come to the United States in order to receive welfare, and they do not contribute to U.S. society . Of these statements, the only one that has any basis in fact is that although the percentage of foreign-born persons present in the U.S. is not very different from what it was a hundred years ago, the racial composition of that group has changed. And that is the Right's real objection to immigration in general and to public benefits for immigrants in particular. They cite examples like the recent decision by the city of San Jose California to commission a statue of Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec Plumed Serpent. Prior to the law's enactment, undocumented immigrants were already ineligible for most public benefit programs.