Juan and Maria sneak accross the border. Maria is 8 months pregnant and goes to a local hospital for a free ($10,000) birthing experience that produces an anchor baby who will get welfare for the next 18 years. Maria and Juan have three more of the free birthing experiences over the next few years.
Juan and Maria are hard workers and earn nearly $25,000 per year. They pay no income taxes but get almost $7,000 per year in Unearned Income and Child Tax Credits.
Now the couple have four welfare dependent children getting a free ($9,000/year/each) education.
The above is the tip of the iceberg. You do the math.
You are right, it is just the tip of the iceberg. Add in the costs if just one of their children becomes a thug or thugina. In and out of the courts, bogging down the whole system- then if sentenced to jail, rehab. or other programs, all costs are paid by the rest of us. Not to mention Juan and Maria are likely on every liberal program out there.