Reportedly, illegal immigrants cost the United States more than $150 billion

 

 

 

PP Cherian Dallas

New York: In March of last year, illegal immigrants cost the United States more than $150 billion. Now, that number is certain to be higher, and will continue to rise unless decisive action is taken, a newly released report points out.

From Newsweek. A border crisis that allowed 5,000 illegal immigrants into the US every day in December last year is a microcosm of a much larger problem…

The issue is $150.7 billion, shared between the federal and state governments, for just one year.

Since President Biden took office on January 20, 2021, more than 3.3 million illegal immigrants have entered the U.S., according to the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, costing federal taxpayers billions.

A report issued by the committee in mid-January said the Biden administration has, among other things, "opened up interior immigration enforcement to allow illegal aliens to remain in the country," causing increasing costs borne by US taxpayers. A separate study released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) quantified the monetary side of that burden.

The FAIR study, released in March of last year, documented the economic toll of illegal immigration in the U.S., taking into account factors such as emergency medical care, incarceration of illegal aliens in local jails, and the federal budget that provides billions in welfare benefits each year. The total annual cost is $150.7 billion.

The figure was arrived at by subtracting an estimated $32 billion in tax contributions made by undocumented immigrants, FAIR said, and the economic impact would be $182 billion. In 2017, the U.S. spent nearly $116 billion on illegal immigration, indicating that the problem is growing. …

With illegal immigration now costing $150.7 billion annually, the burden is on the taxpayer. Individually, the FAIR study found that it costs $8,776 a year for each illegal immigrant or their U.S.-born child.