How California has created a welfare system for illegal immigrants
Opinion How California has created a welfare system for illegal immigrants By Christopher F. Rufo, Kenneth Schrupp and Austen Hufford Published Sep. Add The California Post on Google California runs the nation’s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care and other programs for the poor and downtrodden.
- ▪Opinion How California has created a welfare system for illegal immigrants By Christopher F.
- ▪Rufo, Kenneth Schrupp and Austen Hufford Published Sep.
- ▪Add The California Post on Google California runs the nation’s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care and other programs for the poor and downtrodden.
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| Original publisher | California Post |
| Canonical URL | https://nypost.com/2026/09/23/opinion/how-california-has-created-a-welfare-system-for-illegal-immigrants/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:00:06 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T01:44:06.225Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T01:44:06.225Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opinion How California has created a welfare system for illegal immigrants By Christopher F. Rufo, Kenneth Schrupp and Austen Hufford Published Sep. 23, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET (function() { var overlay = document.getElementById("nyp-player-lcp-overlay"); if (!overlay) { return; } function hideOverlay() { overlay.remove(); } function afterDCL() { requestAnimationFrame(hideOverlay); } if (document.readyState === "loading") { document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", afterDCL, { once: true }); } else { afterDCL(); } })(); See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The California Post on Google California runs the nation’s largest welfare system, devoting more than $180 billion annually to food, health care and other programs for the poor and downtrodden.
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