Report: Biden Border Crisis Costs Taxpayers $451 Billion a Year

[Ptarmigan]

Report: Biden Border Crisis Costs Taxpayers $451 Billion a Year
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/11/15/report-biden-border-crisis-costs-taxpayers-451-billion-a-year-n592569

The House Homeland Security Committee released a report this week that shows caring for illegal aliens currently within the United States could cost American taxpayers up to $451 billion per year. The 49-page interim staff report, appropriately titled “The Historic Dollar Costs of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ Open-Border Policies” was released the same day the House voted on a resolution to impeach Mayorkas.

That resolution was referred to the Homeland Security Committee, which stopped the passage of the resolution. There is little chance of the DHS secretary being impeached, or any member of the Biden administration, as long as the Senate is controlled by Democrats and Biden is in the White House.

The report explains the scope of services paid for by taxpayers and the fact that the total costs are never fully recouped by illegal aliens with the taxes paid by illegal aliens. The costs burden the federal government, state governments, and individual taxpayers. Lawful citizens and residents bear the burden of this administration’s bad border security policies or a lack thereof.

“Mass illegal immigration, accelerated by Mayorkas’ open-borders policies, now represents a massive cost to the federal government and state governments alike, as well as the pocketbooks of private citizens and businesses,” it continues. “The range of costs inflicted by Mayorkas’ border crisis cover everything from emergency medical care to increased demands on law enforcement to housing and shelter benefits for illegal aliens.”

The report highlighted estimates from immigration analysts such as the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). CIS figures put the total cost as high as $451 billion while the FAIR data put the tax burden at a net $150 billion after accounting for illegals’ tax contributions.

$451 billion is what is seen. It is likely way more.

[DefiantSix]

...$451 billion is what is seen. It is likely way more.

Half a trillion Monopoly bucks. Fully 16% of every dollar the ****ers actually collect for the Federal Extortion Racket.

Cloward and Piven never had a better acolyte than SpongeBrainShitPants and his puppeteers.