Report Explains the Financial Cost of Illegal Immigrants for American Taxpayers

freebeacon.com ^ | 2/21/17 | Nick Bolger

[ColdOne]

A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies reports that a border wall could save U.S. taxpayers $64 million over the next decade. The author of the report, director of research Steven Camarota, joined Cheryl Casone of Fox Business on Friday to discuss the costs associated with illegal immigrants.

"We do have a pretty good idea based on a variety of sources of the likely education level of illegal immigrants and there is already an existing body of research that estimates the fiscal impact of illegal immigrants by education or immigrants in general," Camerota began.

"The National Academy of Sciences just did a study last year on how much immigrants pay in taxes and use in services by education," he said. "Once you know the education level of illegal immigrants and then you plug it in and you can come up with an estimate."

[ColdOne]

http://cis.org/The-Cost-of-a-Border-Wall-vs-the-Cost-of-Illegal-Immigration

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I can’t imagine the cost is only $64 million — maybe $64 billion over the next decade but not “million”.

[BushMeister]

Only off by a factor of 1,000.

Yes, the figure is $64 billion.

[HarleyD]

That works out to be about $6 per immigrant for the entire decade (based on 11 million illegals).

I don’t believe it.

[grwcfl537]

It is time that REAL ID laws were applied to anyone who receives Government (mine and yours) money that was not earned to root out the Illegal INVADERS.

[Ann Archy]

MILLION??? More like 64 BILLION!!! These people SUCK the LEGAL TAXPAYERS DRY! They get FREE EVERYTHING PLUS money back at the end of the year!!

[Steely eyed killer of the deep]

The estimated savings of $64B is estimated on stopping half the illegals coming across the Mexican border over 10-years