Posted on 06/27/2016 8:42:47 PM PDT by Red Steel
WASHINGTON— An analysis by the Subcommittee on Immigration and The National Interest finds the refugee plan of presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has announced her desire to admit at least 65,000 refugees from Syria – on top of the existing refugee flow already entering the United States. What Clinton has not explained, however, is that in addition to the clear national security implications related to accepting more refugees, there are massive financial costs that would be borne by federal, state, and local governments.
Assuming Clinton's desire to bring in 65,000 Syrian refugees is in addition to the Obama Administration's current goal of admitting 10,000 this fiscal year (out of 85,000 total refugees), that would amount to an increase of 55,000 refugees. 55,000 on top of 85,000 totals 140,000 refugees. The Obama Administration's target for FY 2017 is actually 100,000 refugees, meaning that adding 55,000 refugees to that would result in 155,000 refugees each year. Due to statutory flaws in our Refugee Admissions Program, the number could be as high as Hillary Clinton desires. Assuming her goal is to admit 155,000 refugees each year during a hypothetical first term in office, a Clinton Administration would admit at least 620,000 refugees in just four years – a population roughly the size of Baltimore.
Although some have attempted to say that the cost of the Refugee Admissions Program is encapsulated in the annual budget provided to the Department of State and the Department of Health and Human Services for refugee resettlement, the actual costs are exponentially greater – as the annual budget for refugee resettlement does not include costs related to Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income, and other programs, as the Obama Administration admits. Nor does that budget include the costs imposed on state and local governments for social services. Furthermore, that budget does not include the costs of future benefits use after refugees become lawful permanent residents and citizens. The true lifetime cost of admitting a single refugee must include an accounting of all benefits received by that refugee - at the federal, state, and local levels, and over the course of that refugee's lifespan. Any other calculation is akin to saying that the total cost of owning a new car is encapsulated in the down payment.
Undoubtedly, the resulting costs of admitting the refugees under Clinton’s plan will be enormous. Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation has estimated that the total lifetime cost of admitting 10,000 refugees is $6.5 billion. This estimate encompasses costs to taxpayers at the federal, state, and local levels. Using Mr. Rector’s numbers as a baseline, admitting 155,000 refugees in one year would result in a total lifetime cost to the taxpayers of $100,750,000,000. If those levels were sustained over the course of four years – a hypothetical first term in office – the lifetime cost to the taxpayers according to Mr. Rector’s analysis would be $403 billion.
Importantly, Mr. Rector’s numbers reflect an estimate of the net taxpayer cost for admitting a defined number of refugees to the United States. As such, they do not account for aliens granted asylee status in the United States (approximately 25,000 are granted asylee status every year), nor do they account for the fact that refugees will be able to – and do – bring in additional family members after being admitted to the United States. Indeed, if an individual refugee’s spouse or unmarried children were not admitted at the same time as the refugee, they are eligible to “follow-to-join” and be admitted to the United States for two years after the individual refugee’s admission. One year after being admitted to the United States, refugees are eligible to adjust to Lawful Permanent Resident status (i.e. obtain a “green card”), enabling them to petition for additional family members. And assuming that a refugee becomes a Lawful Permanent Resident, he or she is further eligible to naturalize five years after being admitted to the United States, enabling them to bring in additional relatives. Thus, the total cost of admitting a certain number of refugees in any given year could be even higher than Mr. Rector predicts.
I hope she croaks soon.
Just another Dem voter drive, as all of their “initiatives”.
If you can’t change the voters’ minds....change the voters...
Yeah this should be renamed as “How the Democrats remain in power” plan.
That’s it. Democrats don’t care about people losing their lives or this country being overwhelmed as long as it gets them power they so crave. They’ve really got nerve when they cry racism as their party is really reversed racism and the ones who are truly violent. The get whitey party.
That’s it. Democrats don’t care about people losing their lives or this country being overwhelmed as long as it gets them power they so crave. They’ve really got nerve when they cry racism as their party is really reversed racism and the ones who are truly violent. The get whitey party.
Has anyone Thanked Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell for FULLY FUNDING THIS INSANITY YET??
It’s ironic just when blacks are at a point of power in this country, along with Hispanics, they are about to be overtaken by the Muslims that will end up with just enough in their push for power. Doesn’t even take the numbers the other races have as they’ll go all the way to suicide in their mission. The left has never been bright.
What’s this? It proves they’re out to infiltrate. Doesn’t matter because they are equal opportunity killers when it comes to their ideology.
They haven’t figured it out that there really won’t be much of a country if Hillary gets in and the Republican party sitting by while we allow our laws to be so gleefully broken letting these hostiles in. It’s apparent what our near future will be like with Hillary.
Handing over more ammo to Mr. Trump and company.
Our nation is being turned over to the Muslims. And that’s a simple fact.
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Trump can build the wall around Cali to keep them in and not bother the rest of us."
I'm sure this is in jest.
Otherwise, I'd say you've clearly never been to, nor met anyone from the central valley, northern CA or much of the Sierra Nevada's. The majority there are solidly conservative. The problem is, they are out numbered by the libs along the coast and the big cities (much like Texas, New York, Florida, etc).
Northern CA tried to leave CA and start their own state with several southern OR counties (the idea of which was started by an Oregon mayor). It took the attack on Pearl Harbor to stop the process in it's tracks (at the time).
The northern counties that want to leave CA.
Their representation in the CA Senate
State of Jefferson
Meet the gun-totin’, bible thumpin rebels who want to split from California
A brief history on Jefferson (state)
You are right I wasn’t serious, I guess I mainly meant Southern California. Seems every crazy idea starts there or New York or Mass.
I was in California once to change planes for maybe 15 minutes. I am not an expert on California by any means, maybe a better idea would be the far north of Alaska. I am sure you are right about Northern California but I am also sure that these 7th century ME monsters need to be separated from us. Maybe we should just send them back to where they came from.
If only there were someone who had the stones to lead the country in doing so.
Oh, wait...
Yes, I know “Jefferson” well. I have lived most of my life in California and am old enough to have experienced the state when it was the leading state in the union, in most all metrics. That was about 40 years ago. I recall one morning getting my paper and reading the headlines about how governor Deukmejian was fighting with the legislature (back when we had a two-party state) about how to RETURN about 3 billion bucks of SURPLUS to the taxpayers. Yes, back when the state was run by responsible conservatives, back when we had REAL Republicans running the legislature who cared about the state and the people supported them.
It was nice. A state you could be proud of. And your children finished school after having learned something meaningful.
Now the state is at the bottom in most metrics or near it. What a senseless, tragic disaster. Illegal immigration, power mad Democrats, stupid electorate....it goes on while the state finishes its dying.
After two terms of Obama, it’ll take the nation years to recover. If Hillary Clinton becomes President, we might not recover in my lifetime.
Hillary will pick SCOTUS, and the rest will follow.
The End
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