The True Cost of Undocumented Immigration

Eviction can be a good thing. King Charles evicted his vengeful son and daughter-in-law. Nancy Pelosi has been evicted as Speaker. And we are now all hoping that voters across the nation will evict the Bidens in 688 days from the White House, so we can secure our borders and evict illegal immigrants who broke into our country.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Governor Ron DeSantis and Governor Greg Abbott have done a great job exposing the problems and the burdens of our broken borders. But, left out of the discussion all too often is the cost to taxpayers. It needs to be understood that even if you are not living in a border state, you are paying for the problem.

Our nation is $31 trillion in debt. We cannot afford to allow this invasion of people who are bringing in fentanyl, stressing our school systems, taking our tax dollars, overburdening our first responders and accessing our health care system.

In my home state of Massachusetts, 10 years ago we were able to calculate that illegal immigration costs our state $2 billion per year in taxpayer-funded benefits. That enormous figure doesn’t include educational or public safety costs or the cost for in-state tuition breaks. At the time, we had 225,000 illegal immigrants. Since Biden entered the White House that number has grown by over 100,000, so the cost has grown even greater. In fact, this week the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed an “investment” of $86 million for emergency housing for “recent international arrivals.”

Last year Taxachusetts residents finally got a tax break when the state sent back $2 billion to the residents. That’s the same amount we had been previously spending on benefits for illegal immigrants every year. If our nation’s borders were secured, every year, Massachusetts taxpayers would get a break. But now we are facing greater burdens.

Nationally, the Center for Immigration Studies data calculates that 51% of illegals are on welfare. If we go with the lowball estimate that there are 12 million illegals in our country, that means there are 6,120,000 on welfare. Let’s say that they get an estimated $1,000 in taxpayer-funded welfare benefits each month. That comes to $6.12 billion per month and $73 billion per year just for welfare. But that’s not all the assistance they receive. There is Medicaid, school lunches, educational costs, housing and public safety.

Worse yet, as we all know, the 12 million estimate is extremely low. Many believe that we have over 30 million illegal immigrants who have invaded our country. 

The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that illegal immigration cost the federal, state and local governments $116 billion in 2017, but looking at the math in the previous paragraph, FAIR’s calculations seem to be low. Moreover, all of this is before Biden, and it doesn’t include the costs of maintaining the border.

Let’s make sure we start serving eviction notices in 2024.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

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