In 2009, San Bernardino County spent $64 million providing welfare benefits to U.S.-born children of illegal aliens.

According to county records, during a typical month, close to 15,000 offspring of illegal aliens received either welfare payments or food stamps in 2009. Over 11,000 of those children received both forms of assistance.

Assemblyman Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, told the San Bernardino Sun: “This is a huge burden on our state. Obviously, these kids are U.S. citizens and that’s fine. But when you look at it, these parents should have never been here in the first place.”

Raymond Herrera, founder and president of We The People California’s Crusader, said: “The American people are fed up with illegal aliens depleting our tax dollars by overrunning our schools, our hospitals and our welfare system.”

While $64 million more than the county can afford particularly during the current deep recession, it is but a drop in the bucket, when you consider what the entire state of California is paying-out to ‘anchor babies’ and their illegal alien parents.

http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/2010/01/31/the-children-of-illegal-aliens-anchor-babies-have-bankrupted-the-state-of-california/