We cannot afford to maintain status quo on Illegal immigration WashTimesOpEd
finds that an estimated 15.5 million illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children consume about $182 billion a year in federal, state and local benefits and services, which are offset by only $31 billion in taxes paid. The net 2022 cost of illegal immigration represents a 30% increase over the 2017 cost of $116 billion.
While the Biden administration has been greasing the turnstile and inventing new ways to allow migrants to enter the country illegally without the bad optics at the border, the bulk of the cost associated is being foisted on state and local governments. Of the gross outlay of $182 billion for benefits and services, $115.6 billion comes out of state and local coffers — entities that lack the ability to print money or endlessly raise the debt ceiling.
Of course, many virtue-signaling jurisdictions have decided that a $70 billion-a-year unfunded education mandate just isn’t enough and have taken it upon themselves to sweeten the deal by offering illegal aliens heavily subsidized in-state tuition benefits at public colleges and universities. So-called sanctuary states and localities continue to make expensive new benefits and services available to illegal aliens, even though they have no legal obligation to do so.
At the same time, political leaders have ignored both data and common sense and bought into the absurd notion that poor or indigent illegal aliens pay more in taxes than they consume in benefits and services. They don’t. In fact, for every dollar that the typical illegal alien contributes in taxes, they and their dependents cost the rest of us $6.
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