The New York Post reports on "How the migrant crisis drained $150 billion from taxpayers in a single year." The article relates: "Last year, US taxpayers shelled out some $150 billion in government services and support to help the 20 million illegal migrants in the country, according to a study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)," most of which was borne by state and local governments. The highest spending state, no surprise, was California, which spent $30.9 billion on illegals.
FAIR's estimates are higher than what are reported from other sources, but that is because they include costs ignored by other estimates.
While most states’ accounts of migrant expenses focus on emergency housing and aid, FAIR’s assessment factored in the full breadth of state services they draw on while in the US.
Services like education, medical expenses, law enforcement, legal costs and welfare were prominent factors FAIR looked at in its study.
Those, coupled with the differences in tax revenue compared to expenses, helped contribute to the discrepancies between state reporting and the estimated true cost of hosting migrants.
FAIR also included the costs of US-born children of illegal immigrants — something many reports don’t factor in.
“As long as we keep allowing millions of people to come into the country illegally every year, it’s obviously going to continue to increase the costs,” FAIR spokesperson Ira Mehlman told The Post.
“This seems to be just sort of basic, common sense. If you were going to be bringing in lots and lots of people, many of them working off the books for very low wages, that there are going to be enormous social costs incurred,” he added.
While on this topic, be sure to check out John Wilder's piece at his Wilder Wealthy & Wise blog on "How Invaders Are Looting Your 401k." An excerpt:
On Monday’s post I gave an example of propaganda, and how it is used to manipulate public opinion. The example I chose was the phrase “Diversity is our Strength™” which, when viewed from the standpoint of what diversity really gives us, is Orwellian doublespeak. Diversity causes problems, so much so that journalist Michael Yon has started calling them what might be more apt: invaders.
One of the problems it causes is related to resources. While not every invader (legal or illegal) is a net cost to the country, most are. A recent study by the House Homeland Security Commission (LINK) showed that immigrants (just the illegal variety) cost taxpayers at least $720 billion since Biden took office, and have contributed no more than $120 billion in taxes at all levels, for a net loss of $600 billion dollars.
That’s a huge tax burden, because it assumes that they individual taxpayer is picking up the cost. So, what kind of costs are in this number?
- Housing
- Welfare
- Schools
- Police
- Transport
- Impacts on Private Property on the Border
If you assume only 10,000,000 invaders, well, that’s a stunning $60,000 per invader, or for a familia of four, nearly a quarter million dollars. This gives the term “Anchor Baby” a new meaning, since they are literally anchors on our economy, each one holding us back to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, with a net negative lifetime cost that could be in the millions.
But we know the answer of how many invaders are devastating our country is higher, and the cost is much higher than the $720,000,000,000 over four years. On one side, this money is going to support the invaders. But this is money that should have been spent on our elderly, our veterans, our infrastructure, and our children. Nearly every single invader, man, woman, or child, is making the Unites States a poorer nation and is taking from those heritage Americans who have the greatest needs.
Be sure to read the whole thing.
Related:
- "Group of 20 migrants attempted to enter California school bus picking up students: officials"--New York Post. More on this story here.
- "Venezuelan migrant gang takes over apartment complex in Aurora"--Daily Mail. Most brandishing weapons, including a scoped rifle.
- "CalFIRE confirms that illegals are setting wildfires out in San Diego's back country"--American Thinker. The article notes that many of the fires are intentionally set: either to destroy Border Patrol vehicles, or, conversely, to attract the Border Patrol so that the illegals can then take advantage of the asylum process and be transported to a destination of their choice.
- "Florida mom left with ‘catastrophic’ injuries when she, baby are struck by migrant Amazon driver who fled"--New York Post. The driver, "Parra-Ovalles, 45, entered the US on a tourist visa in 2019, which expired in 2021, Homeland Security sources told The Post." "She was granted Temporary Protected Status in 2021, which allowed her apply for a work permit."
I feel so enriched.
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