I delt with a lot of illegals back before I retired. They worked a full time job at a farm, or a feed yard, or a kill plant, and still managed to get welfare, government housing, and food stamps.
Texas finally got rid of food stamps, but they figured out how to get the food card to.
They live off us, and send their paychecks back to Mexico where it was spent by their families.
That's why Mexico never wanted a closed border.
Pretty much what I see
I recently found out that a couple of the
border jumpers occupying houses down
the block aren't having to pay utilities.
They're either getting them paid somehow,
or have the meters bypassed. They caught
one the street to the south that had his
buddy come bypass the electric meter.
The company came out and disconnected
it, but they bypassed it again afterwards.
The company finally came out and took
the cable from the pole down and took
it away along with the meter they'd got
from somewhere, probably from a new
house under construction where they
get most of their building materials