Posted on 02/10/2018 8:20:02 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
A new map posted by HowMuch.net breaks down the economic toll of illegal immigrants state by state, and their findings are extremely troubling.
Using information gathered from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, How Much’s map shows how much money illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers on a state-by-state basis.
California is most devastated by the heavy toll, with a whopping $23 billion in that state alone.
States closer to the Mexican border are most affected, but several states throughout the country still pay billions to support illegal immigrants through education, welfare, law enforcement, and medical care.
The map doesn’t include federal costs.
According to the Washington Examiner, when federal costs are included, illegal immigrants cost $135 billion a year.
Liberals like to justify their opposition to the deportation of illegal immigrants due to their estimations of initial costs for actually enforcing our federal immigration laws.
But considering that current data suggests over a trillion dollars spent supporting illegal immigrants a decade, leftist arguments that deportation is too expensive crumble rather quickly.
Furthermore, Democrats like to point out that illegal immigrants pay some taxes, such as sales tax. According to the social security administration, about 3.4 million illegal immigrants (out of 11.1 million people illegally residing in the U.S.) pay social security taxes.
However, the How Much map takes into account taxes paid by illegal immigrants. So the costs represented on the map fall entirely to legal U.S. residents’ taxes.
The Washington Examiner continues:
The costs cover added expenditures for education, welfare, law enforcement, and medical care.
When federal costs are included, the price tag nationally soars to $135 billion a year.
FAIR’s data also includes the offset of taxes paid by illegal immigrants, though the numbers are much lower. In the state and local column, they are $3.5 billion. Nationally they are $15 billion.
Overall, costs associated with illegal immigrants is much higher for state and local governments than the federal government. States pay $89 billion, Uncle Sam $46 billion.
Below are the ten states most heavily weighed by the cost of illegal immigration:
1. California – $23,038,125,353
2. Texas – $10,994,614,550
3. New York – $7,489,141,357
4. Florida – $6,290,429,108
5. New Jersey – $4,466,838,574
6. Illinois – $3,220,767,517
7. Georgia – $2,487,719,503
8. North Carolina – $2,437,965,113
9. Maryland – $2,378,996,947
10. Arizona – $2,314,131,964
HowMuch.net also explains why some states are more heavily affected than others, citing proximity to the border and overall population:
First, states that spend the most on illegal immigration tend to be located close to Mexico. Looking at out map, the two states with the highest expenditures are California ($23B) and Texas ($11B), both sharing long borders with Mexico. In fact, there’s a cluster of dark red states stretching along the Southwest. States closest to the phenomenon pay the most as a result.
Second, states with higher population levels tend to spend more than their less populated counterparts. You can see a group of high-expenditure states clustered around the Northeast, not to mention Illinois and Florida. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, California and Texas are also the two most populous states in the country. High population levels and proximity to Mexico act like a double-whammy for illegal immigration expenses.
Now take a look at the places with relatively low levels of expenditures for illegal immigration, the light blue states. They are all located far away from the U.S.-Mexico border with relatively small population levels. West Virginia is perhaps an exceptional state, seeing that it is surrounded by red and dark red. We can speculate that this is likely due to the fact that West Virginia has a struggling economy which actually contracted last year.
Are Democrats willing to continue this sort of spending for years to come?
“Are Democrats willing to continue this sort of spending for years to come?”
In all fairness, credit is due to BOTH parties for this mess!
-—HowMuch.net also explains why some states are more heavily affected than others, citing proximity to the border and overall population:-—
I imagine putting out the ‘Welcome’ mat had something to do with it as well.
So if we just legalize them, illegals won’t cost us so much, right?
The more pertinent question is: Which party is trying to slow it down, and which party is blocking those efforts?
I’m surprised that Hawaii is so high————where do the illegals come from?
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Well Done...thanks for the post!
Thankfully, we don't have any Bush's in the Oval Office, claiming the illegal alien invasion "is an act of LOVE!!!
We MUST copy the map and send to everyone on our email list, regardless of their opinion on the DREAMERS, DADA or the "Open Borders Corporations!!
Most Americans (at least those who actually WORK and PAY TAXES) do not object to a tax cut!!!
Would be interesting to see PERCENTAGES....Oregon has a population of 4.something million....a pretty small state, but has SANCTUARY status...the costs are percentage wise high.
That sad map makes me think of this old joke.
A Texan saw his neighbor loading furniture into a U-Haul truck. Later, he saw him go to his truck and stick two tortillas through his radio antenna. “What’re you doing that for?” he asked. His neighbor answered, “I’m gonna drive north until someone asks me ,’What are those things on your antenna?’ That’ll be my next hometown.”
Diana, Thank you for this Tremendously important information post!
It is Crucial that All conservatives show / shove this by-state-cost map in front of all left family, friends and foe, with the argument that illegals are robbing us of funds to take care of our schoolchildren and elderly.
The money they save businesses by working under the table doesn’t add value to the economy considering that illegals send TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars out of the country to their families back in Central America.
Don’t our own citizen children and elderly matter more than illegal aliens financial opportunists exploiting the USA?
Democrats aren’t spending THEIR money on this mess.
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Where’s all the extra money I keep hearing the illegals generate? We ought to be the richest nation on earth. And if we opened our borders to all shitholers, we’d be gazzillionairess.
Don’t forget to calculate the other cost.
Every citizen murdered, raped, robbed or who got hooked on drugs because of an illegal occupier that should have never been in our country to begin with.
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The more pertinent question is: Which party is trying to slow it down, and which party is blocking those efforts?
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1A: Neither 1B: Both
The (R)N(C) had a myriad of chances to ‘slow it down’, even talked the (typical) good game...then passed bills w/ the EITC and illegal alien h’care intact.
“Are Democrats willing to continue this sort of spending for years to come?”.........
Democrats don’t care, it’s not their money and such spending “buys” votes. That’s the name of the game.
Liberals go nuts over this data.
They always claim the opposite - that illegals actually make a positive contribution to the economy.
Big businesses, big banks require more and more customers... legal or illegal. Wall Street doesn’t care which.
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