University of Minnesota professor Eric Schwartz defends importing large groups of foreigners and putting them all on max taxpayer funded benefits Senator Ted Cruz “Is importing vast numbers of people from an impoverished nation, putting the majority of them on public welfare for years and decades at a time, and then turning a blind eye while they steal billions of dollars from the taxpayers, Is that helping America or hurting America?” “It is not unusual for immigrant populations to have a high degree of assistance” “So your testimony is massive welfare usage is helping America and the fraud is helping America?” “Somali presence in the United States is helping America.” Ted Cruz shows a graph showing Minnesota taxpayers had $9 billion stolen from them