It makes you wonder how much they really cost us over the long-run.
First year cost ...
- $30k per head on the South of the border folks
- up to $62K for the Syrians and Somalians when they handle the whole process.
How much more does it cost us over their life time?
- Healthcare
- Education
- housing
- welfare
- cost due to the added security risks
- prisons
- judicial system
- government provided interpreters
- law enforcement, crime
- earned income tax credits
Doesn’t seem like such a great deal for tax payers.
If they come here, they should be cleared and be able to support themselves. Otherwise, they should keep out.
Perhaps, I did not write that correctly. Most of the funds given to all these charities to resettle the refugees is from OUR tax dollars. They are just shuffling the money around and franchising or contracting the work out to these organizations. Some of these groups are brand new and started specifically for this program.
We are paying to fly them here. Pay a handler to greet them at the airport. Process them with paperwork. Put them up in hotels until their final destination is chosen. Fly or bus them to that state. Pay handlers again for meet and greet. Pay the shelters that house, feed and clothe them. Counsel, educate, medicate and what ever else their heart desires.
I’ll have to go back and find the article, but it left the impression that the bulk of the money was being paid up front to these groups for the initial process and did not cover any where near a full year.