Commentary
President
Joe Biden has transformed America’s southern border into a humanitarian catastrophe and a
national security nightmare. This bloody, deadly mess is a clear and present danger to this republic.
But this also is a massive fiscal threat. President Biden’s
obliteration of the border is evaporating federal, state, and local coffers.
Precise figures on anything illegal are, by definition, elusive. Nonetheless, a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform titled “
The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2023” estimates that taxpayers bleed $182.1 billion in annual benefits to illegal aliens. That includes $66.4 billion in federal spending and an additional $115.7 billion in state and local outlays to those who have broken into America.
“No sweat!” illegal alien apologists argue. “They work hard, pay taxes, and pull their own weight.”
If only.
“Taxes paid by illegal aliens only cover around 17.2 percent of the costs they create for American citizens,” FAIR calculates. That includes $16.2 billion in federal taxes and $15.2 billion in state and local levies. Despite this $31.4 billion in tax revenue, U.S. citizens are still stuck with 82.8 percent, or $150.7 billion, of the illegal immigrants’ annual tab.
Extrapolating from that figure suggests that since President Biden took control three years ago, these foreign invaders have siphoned some $452 billion from the U.S. Treasury, statehouses, and city halls across America.
Specifically:
Federal
• Welfare: $11.6 billion• Medical: $23.1 billion
• Law enforcement/justice: $25.1 billion
• Education: $6.6 billion
State and local
• Welfare: $2 billion• Medical: $18.6 billion
• Law enforcement/justice: $21.8 billion
• Education: $73.3 billion
Every penny of this largesse is avoidable. Sealing the southern frontier and requiring that immigrants present visas would halt this relentless onslaught. The fact that illegal alien
encounters have soared by 336 percent since President Biden took office pins this evil on No-Borders Biden and the DEI Democrats.
“The impact of these policies is causing
social upheaval, setting states against other states, big cities against surrounding communities, overwhelming school districts and social service providers, as economic migrants from all across the globe pour across our borders,” FAIR President Dan Stein said.
This foreign menace plagues U.S. cities and states.
With
37,000 illegal aliens having swamped Denver since December 2023, Democratic Mayor Mike Johnston said on Jan. 17 that his city faces “a fiscal crisis unlike anything we have seen in the last 25 years.” He expects illegals to cost Denver
$180 million this year. Denver Health hospital is in critical condition because 8,000 illegals have paid nothing for their 20,000 visits.
Furthermore, Greg Abbott (R-Texas) told Fox Business Network anchor Stuart Varney on Jan. 4, “Since Joe Biden has taken office, Texas taxpayers have borne the brunt of about $10 billion in costs for Texas to do the federal government’s job to try to secure the border.”
Some
160,000 illegal aliens have also flooded New York City since spring 2022. So, Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to slash spending across the board by 5 percent per year for three years. This nominal 15 percent reduction in police, fire, sanitation, education, and all else totaled
$12.25 billion to keep illegals clothed, fed, housed, and educated. Hence, Mr. Adams canceled five police academy rookie classes.
Unexpectedly higher revenues let Mr. Adams pare those cuts to
$10.6 billion. Regardless,
New York’s residents anticipate deadlier streets, brighter infernos, dirtier sidewalks, and dimmer students.
Mr. Adams detonated a rage bomb on Jan. 9 when he bused
1,900 illegal “guests” from a rain-soaked tent city to Brooklyn’s James Madison High School and banished its students to Zoom classes. This betrayal infuriated the school’s largely black and Hispanic Democratic parents.
President Biden’s border-killing policies have lured an estimated
8.47 million illegal aliens into the hands of sadistic cartels and rape-happy human smugglers. He shines a green light for foreign criminals, spies, and terrorists. On President Biden’s watch,
312 of the latter have been nabbed at the border, versus 11 under President Donald Trump—up by 2,736 percent. How many have slipped through? Who knows?
Meanwhile, President Biden offers U.S. taxpayers two words:
Drop dead.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
