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Our new Department of Government Efficiency provides a few sources for these claims here, here, here, here, here, and here.
In May, the U.S. House Budget Committee reviewed the $150.7 billion number provided from a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). That study concluded:
At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $182 billion to cover the costs incurred from the presence of more than 15.5 million illegal aliens, and about 5.4 million citizen children of illegal aliens. That amounts to a cost burden of approximately $8,776 per illegal alien/citizen child. The burden of illegal immigration on U.S. taxpayers is both staggering and crippling, with the gross cost per taxpayer at $1,156 every year.
Illegal aliens only contribute roughly $32 billion in taxes at the state, local, and federal levels. This means that the net fiscal cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers totals approximately $150.7 billion.
This number is up from 2017, when FAIR estimated a total drain of only $116 billion.
Here's a graphic to help explain.
It's wild to think that we could build 150 new Hoover Dams every year if we simply enforced our border.
Or dig almost 10 Panama Canals.
Or fund over half of the NASA rocket program that put multiple waves of astronauts on the moon.
Or fund almost half of all the nation's expenditures during WORLD WAR ONE.
Meanwhile, the national debt surpassed $36 trillion last month, we pay more on the interest for our debt than we do the Pentagon's entire annual budget, and we add another trillion to the debt every 100 days or so.
And the number of illegal entries just keeps increasing.
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