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.
Criminal insanity combined with power-madness and total disregard for America. Radical, nutcase Hillary.
How about Greenland..?
Tierra del Fuego..?
Christmas Island?
There are not enough jobs for all the black and hispanic americans already. What does she have against these groups?
You mean Holiday Island
Can’t make us into Amerikastan without a flood of Muslims.
I do realize that this is just the left’s blind hatred of believing Christianity, trying to water the nation down and drown us out; but, as they do not realize their folly they give every appearance of being under a strong delusion where they are being herded to their doom.
Those of us who are in Christ have a hope that will not fail: the rest of the nation will one by one either repent or will be toast.
Paid for by our fiat currency and the federal reserve
Fix that, and you fix 1000 other leftist-created problems
She’s a shell, filled with the poison of the hate-America NWO.
Well, as much as she pushes for abortion rights and easy access to it and inasmuch as half of all blacks conceived are aborted in this country it is very clear that she hates them with all her evil soul and wants to kill the other half that got away.
Interesting how that America as a nation has turned its back on the God who gave us our country, and that now the same people He used to punish the Jews are the same race of people swarming into America. Coincidence, no?
Now that ISISsays to focus on killing whites the Liberals will accelerate their love for refuges, especially Odoofis.
I just spoke to a guy on the street yesterday. He was wearing a sandwich board advertising a psychic. Instead of preaching to him, I asked him if he’s so psychic, who’s going to win the election?
He knew exactly what I meant! He said I’m just wearing this because it’s the only work I can get. He would love to be even a dishwasher for $300 a week, which he assured me is what the Mexican dishwashers get.
I mentioned a while back another guy who wanted construction work in Harlem but they were only hiring Mexicans.
This is just plain wrong. We can’t feed the rest of the world and ignore the needs of our own people. We will pay for this in some way, the Lord will see to it. We better stop it.
Hillary is evil.
“..What does she have against these groups?..”
Nothing really. They are a tool to an end. Dilution and destruction of our demographics, DemocRat votes which equates to power and control. And of course she is selling all the access to America RIGHT NOW.
And the GOPe thinks they are better off doing NOTHING FOR AMERICA than standing and fighting for our nation and our freedom. Selfish criminal bastards.
Dangerous combination of ignorance and arrogance.
And the dims think all this chaos they are creating won’t affect them.
Let’s just give them California, they are all nuts there anyway and should get along fine with nuts from the ME and Mexico.
Trump can build the wall around Cali to keep them in and not bother the rest of us.
That’s $641,500 lifetime cost per refugee. Millions per family! They must value those refugees highly!
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