The massive costs imposed by illegal immigration is a topic we’ve covered numerous times here at The Political Insider.
In citing the cost of illegal immigration in the past, I’ve pointed to a 2013 study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) that found the total cost of illegal immigration to be $113 billion annually at the federal, state, and local level, with most of the burden ($84 billion) falling on the states. An updated version of the study released in September of this year showed that the cost has actually increased to $116 billion now, a $3 billion increase since their last study.
A separate study published earlier that month put the costs much higher, because they found that the cost of illegal immigration in terms of lost taxes (since the 10+ million jobs currently held by illegals would otherwise be held by taxpayers) at an astounding $300 billion – more than we pay them and their children in benefits!
And speaking of the children of illegals, according to Breitbart,
The DREAM Act, which is the most expansive amnesty being considered in Congress, would give potentially 3.5 million illegal aliens who are shielded from deportation by DACA and those eligible for DACA a pathway to U.S. citizenship.
Such a plan, the CBO reports, would come with a costly price tag to American taxpayers:
In total, CBO and JCT estimate that changes in direct spending and revenues from enacting S. 1615 would increase budget deficits by $25.9 billion over the 2018-2027 period, boosting on-budget deficits by $30.6 billion and decreasing off-budget deficits by $4.7 billion over that period.
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And that doesn’t include the future costs of Social Security and Medicare!
Among the major costs the study found?
- Under the DREAM Act, we’d need to pay for at least two million illegal aliens who would become eligible for Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps).
- Newly amnestied illegal aliens under the DREAM Act would be allowed to receive federal benefits to go to college, costing Americans a billion dollars just between 2018 through 2022 as our own citizens can barely afford college, according to the CBO.
- The CBO also estimated that providing higher education assistance for newly eligible people would cost $1.0 billion from 2018-2022 period.
Of course, in the context of multi-trillion dollar budgets, and a national debt standing at $20 trillion, a few billion here or there may seem like only a “little;” but that fact alone should be a reminder of just how out-of-control the government’s spending has gotten over the years.
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