A border enforcement advocacy group says a staggering number of Middle Eastern refugees are on welfare, both in the U.S. and in Europe.



In a long overdue report to Congress, the Office of Refugee Resettlement has found that Middle Eastern refugees resettled in the United States are more than likely refugees from anywhere else in the world who have come to be on welfare. In one example, nearly 90 percent of Middle Eastern refugees receive food stamps, while a little more than 44 percent from Latin America and 74 percent from South/Southeast Asia utilize the program.

Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), says it is a tremendous burden on U.S. taxpayers.

"That's one of the reasons among many reasons we ought to consider how many people we are going to admit as refugees to the United States and whether there is a more effective way to be able to protect people without resettling large numbers in the West, where they end up being dependent on a lot of social services," Mehlman comments.

Meanwhile, an editorial published by Investor's Business Daily claims a staggering 80 percent of Muslims in Europe are on welfare. The situation is particularly bad in Belgium and the Netherlands, where each country's roughly five percent Muslim populations consume about 50 percent of the welfare budgets. And they refuse to assimilate.

"You have communities like Molenbeek in the heart of Belgium, where you have jihadist training camps, jihadist cells that have formed and are carrying out terrorist acts in Belgium and across Europe," Mehlman laments.

"When you have immigration, you also have to consider what's going to happen to people after they arrive in the country," the FAIR spokesman concludes.