Now you can sponser your very own undocumented migrant for just $6.48 per day!!! Just think of all the joy and openness you can bring into the world.
Posted on 01/16/2019 4:28:52 AM PST by tired&retired
In a prior analysis, we estimated that the average net fiscal cost (taxes paid minus services used) of an illegal immigrant was $65,292 during their lifetime — excluding their U.S.-born children. This came to $65.3 billion per million illegal immigrants. The figures were expressed in 2016 dollars. Adjusted to 2018 dollars, it would be $69,570 per illegal immigrant, or $69.6 billion per million illegal immigrants.
The reason illegal immigrants are unambiguously a net fiscal drain is that less-educated people, native-born or immigrant, earn on average modest wages and as a result they tend to make modest tax contributions, while needing significant social services. As we pointed out in our prior study, research by the Center for Immigration Studies, the Pew Research Center, the Heritage Foundation, and others have all found that a very large share of illegal immigrants have relatively few years of schooling — most have not completed high school or have only a high school education.
The wall is a no brainer investment. (Note: the $70K cost is net of all taxes paid by the illegal immigrant during their lifetime.)
Sounds ridiculously low. Add a ‘0’ and maybe you’re close. Housing alone is good for at least $10,000 a year.
ONE child's education for 12 years costs WAY more than that!
Plus they get WELFARE in MANY WAYS!
I did not review the computations in detail. This amount is supposed to be NET of all taxes paid.
They may assume no Social Security benefits.
That is nowhere near the real cost, which is likely closer to 30x that.
Is that PER YEAR? That would be more believable.
Lifetime? Seems a tad short to me.
I agree. But even so, it supports that the wall is a no brainer.
excluding their U.S.-born children. That was in the very first sentence extracted.
Speaking of “no brainers”, I got this from san fran nan today:
Paychecks over Politics
Dear San Franciscan,
Over the weekend, the government shutdown, which in my view is the President’s shutdown, broke the record for the longest government shutdown in US history. In my opinion, there is no excuse for the President to keep government shut down over his demands for an ineffective, wasteful wall - holding the health and safety of the American people hostage and stealing paychecks from 800,000 innocent workers who are struggling to make ends meet. Meanwhile, our national parks face years of damage, airport terminals are closing early due to reduced security and air traffic controllers and Americans might not receive their deserved tax refunds on time this year.
Last week, House Democrats passed individual, bipartisan funding bills to re-open government and restore stability in workers’ lives. However, the President continues to promise to keep government shut down for months or years until he gets his wall. On Friday, our Majority took strong, swift action to help workers suffering this senseless shutdown by passing legislation guaranteeing back pay for all furloughed federal employees - but sending workers their paychecks late is not enough. Government needs to be re-opened immediately.
As we have told President Trump from the beginning, Democrats support smart, effective border security solutions:
New technology to scan cars and trucks for drugs coming through ports of entry and to detect unauthorized crossings.
More personnel and better port of entry infrastructure to facilitate trade, immigration and security.
But we will not waste billions of taxpayer dollars on an ineffective wall that can be tunneled under, climbed over or cut through - a wall Mexico was never going to pay for.
Are you experiencing the pain, instability and uncertainty of the government shutdown? We want to hear from you, email us here to share your story.
best regards,
It fails to capture a lot of cost. How about cleaning, or animal control. We have massive problems in Houston with littering, illegal dumping, and animal abandonment. It is almost entirely an illegal immigrant problem—these practices were mostly shamed out of existence before the wave of illegal immigration in the 90s
Plus it is limited only to government cost. What about all of the free medical care they get in ERs?
They left off a zero.
Have they even proposed a bill to send up to the senate? If so where is the text? I’m assuming they did not and no one will even broach the question. Put up a bill or shut up.
You are correct. WAAAAY TOO LOW.
Consider that many illegals send a significant portions of their earnings back home to the detriment of the US economy. Not to mention the cost of the free medical care they receive, the cost to local school districts to educate their kids and a host of other freebies paid for by the US taxpayers. Remember Obama’s “auntie” who lived in subsidized housing and had her hip replaced all while being here illegally for years.
I’m talking about the ones they ILLEGALLY BRING INTO THE US!
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