NEW MAP: Cost of Illegal Immigration, By State

The Federalist Papers Project ^ | 2-6-18 | Brian Thomas

[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?

[SFConservative]

Thanks for posting this.

What these numbers explain is the tremendous resistance against doing anything about this problem. For example, the $23B annual cost in California doesn't mean that we hand the illegals $23B in spending money. The direct cash assistance is likely $3-4B. The rest is spent on salaries for US citizens and legal residents employed by the companies, school districts, hospitals, state and local governments (including prosecutors, public defenders and correctional officers), and many, many so-called non-profit aid organizations (paying their execs $300-400K per year) that deal with the illegals.

So these legal providers of services to illegals now represent about 8% of the California economy. For some of the non-profits this money supports their very livelihood and existence. The government employees unions know that 15-25% of their members make a living servicing illegals, that's a lot of dues. These people help elect the law-breaking hacks in the California legislature, the governor and the attorney general. If we ever deported all illegals, this would all go away and jobs, money and power of these legal individuals would disappear. This is now a big enough constituency to successfully resist enforcing immigration laws.

[octex]

Thanks, Diana, for this info. ...Will send it on...

[LucyT]

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NEW MAP: Cost of Illegal Immigration, By State

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[NEWwoman]

Try to tweet link for the source - again. Got this message on twitter:

“This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.”

I guess I’m a bot. Like on Blade Runner? And I don’t know it?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oh, I’m sure Twitter has banned/blocked, ‘The Federalist Papers Project.’ They don’t want anyone knowing anything about our Constitution or The Federalist Papers.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Did you try Tweeting/linking the data directly from HowMuch.net? I don’t ‘tweet’ so I don’t how it works.

https://howmuch.net/articles/state-by-state-costs-of-illegal-inmigration

[NEWwoman]

Thanks for the tip.

I tweeted the freerepublic.com post for this threat. It made it past the censors. And the link is in the post.

Just wanted you’ll to know the site was blocked, though it had a twitter button to share tweets.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Good FReeping! Spread the word! :)

[Shadowstrike]

thanks, I really needed this, as do family in others States, will be waving it in my Reps face.

Mad as...HECK over this.

[null and void]

IQ by State, in the U.S.

[null and void]

Does anyone know if there is a map taxes paid by illegal aliens state by state?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That works perfectly, together!

[thinden]

well, according to this, the illegal immigrants are now the privileged class in America

[null and void]

They don’t track perfectly, but there is a pretty good correlation.

[caww]

YEs...when were they not actually..

[Brown Deer]

$135 billion per year and the total cost of the wall is only $18 billion. Why hasn’t the wall been built?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Why hasn’t the wall been built?”

I’m going to assume that’s rhetorical, but I’ll answer, anyway:

*Cheap Labor Express
*Democrats need illegals voting
*0bama
*RINOs like Juan McCain
*EnviroWeenies
*Our LEGAL Immigration System is broken...no fence keeps out the LEGALS that come here ‘temporarily’ and then are NEVER forced to leave!