> Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation has estimated that the total lifetime cost of admitting 10,000 refugees is $6.5 billion
I think the calculation lowballs the cost of refugees. It estimates their cost from another class of immigrants, “low skilled, legal immigrant worker” (why does this class exist?), but middle eastern refugees are not workers.
An Australian government report highlighting refugees’ special contribution found an employment rate of 30% for working-age refugees who arrived in the previous five years (source: https://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/research/economic-social-civic-contributions-booklet2011.pdf#page=26). Refugee-loving Germany expects only 55% of immigrants to have found any sort of job after five years. (source: http://www.dw.com/en/the-costs-of-the-refugee-crisis/a-19016394).
The 30-55% employed refugees will be the low-skill immigrant workers costing ‘only’ $13k/yr, and the other 70% will just be soaking the taxpayers on every state and federal program they can get.
Refugees are the gift that keeps on taking and Hillary will have to borrow every cent of the cost to maintain them.
I'm hoping that when Trump takes Office, he will round up all these filthy sh*t head muslims, cram 'em on cargo ships, and send them back to tents in the Middle-East.