> A September 2015 report by CIS asserted that "immigrant households receive 41 percent more federal welfare than households headed by native-born citizens."[78] The report was criticized on the basis of poor methodology by Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute. Nowrasteh said that the report opted not to examine how much welfare immigrants use, but to examine households led by an immigrant so that the report could count the welfare usage of the immigrant's US-born children, which leads to a misleading estimate of immigrant welfare use.[78]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies

"Center of Immigration Studies" seems like a very dubious source of information when even Cato is criticizing them.

https://www.cato.org/blog/center-immigration-studies-oversta...

They should be counting USA born, dependent children. Having a “border baby” who is eligible for welfare is a primary source of that household welfare.

Cato is funded by the Koch brothers who love illegal immigration because of cheap labor