"Data paints a damning picture of this exploitation. In fiscal year 2022, the USDA tallied 1.5 million noncitizens, many that should have been ineligible by strict standards, receiving SNAP benefits totaling a staggering $4.2 billion in payouts.
Fast-forward to the self-inflicted Biden-Harris border catastrophe: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects an additional $15 billion in SNAP costs by fiscal year 2034, much of it funneled to illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children through mixed-status households.
SNAP was not designed as a global buffet for recent illegal border-crossers; it’s a taxpayer-funded safety net created explicitly for U.S. citizens and legal residents in genuine need.
These statistics should not be surprising. They’re the predictable outcome of policies that wink at fraud, from fake Social Security numbers to underreported incomes in mixed households. When EBT cards run dry, remember that a chunk of those foregone benefits was already squandered on illegal aliens who shouldn’t be here, let alone at the public trough.
This exploitation is the rotten fruit of anti-borders politicians and their myopic agendas. For four years, the Biden administration deliberately imploded border enforcement by suspending wall construction, allowing in millions via “humanitarian” loopholes, and issuing catch-and-release directives. Over 10 million encounters at the southwest border since 2021, including 2 million known “gotaways,” flooded communities with unvetted arrivals. Those largely indigent entrants need food, and a loosely enforced EBT program is the obvious choice to provide it."
https://www.fairus.org/opinion/shutdown-reveals-illegal-snap-scam
