

The Los Angeles city and county homeless population rose sharply, almost 6 percent, in 2016. Nearly 47,000 people were living on the streets-28,000 of them were in the city. American families also struggled to get by. Veterans, in need of services, begged for help. Yet despite all that, illegal immigrants reaped the benefits of government handouts.



According to data obtained by Fox News, in 2015 and 2016 Los Angeles paid out nearly one-quarter of the amount spent on the entire city’s needy population helping illegals. The data was obtained from the county Department of Public Social Services, which is responsible for handing out the benefits.



More than 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in 2015.

More than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.

During the first five months of 2017, more than 60,000 families received a total of $181 million.

Welfare and food stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9 billion in 2016 and $1.5 billion so far in 2017.

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This is a damn disgrace. Having lived in California for years near LA I can tell you first hand that illegals maximize the welfare state and it's like they have a roadmap on how to do it.At first I read, 1 billion oh wow that's not much at all. Then I realized it was just LA and it made sense. Seems like the Democrat's can't win actual American's over to their corrupt incompetent side so they have to import the least educated people in the world to vote for them.HOW is this even possible? How do non citizens get welfare OVER citizens especially vet's??Democrat's a re a disgrace to our nation. I pray to god you lose all power and become history.Power to the Libertarian party and #endthewelfarestate