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New FAIR Study: Illegal Immigration Costs Taxpayers $113 Billion Annually

On Tuesday, July 6, FAIR released a new study estimating that illegal immigration now costs federal, state, and local taxpayers more than $113 billion per year.

Titled The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers, the report finds that federal spending on illegal aliens totals $29 billion annually. However, the majority of the overall costs of illegal immigration are borne by state and local taxpayers, with an estimated cost of $84.2 billion. (See State Cost Map – Total Fiscal Costs by State).

To arrive at these estimates, FAIR’s new report examines dozens of government benefits – at the local, state, and federal levels – that are obtained by illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children, legally and fraudulently. In addition, the report analyzes the impact of illegal immigration on education, health care, law enforcement and justice, public assistance, and other government programs. Key findings of the report include:

• Services and benefits to illegal aliens and their families cost native-headed households an average of $1,117 a year. Because the burdens of illegal immigration are not evenly distributed, the costs are much higher in states with large illegal alien populations. (See State Cost Map – Costs to Native-Headed Households by State).

• Education for the children of illegal aliens represents the single largest public expenditure at an annual cost of $52 billion. Nearly all of that cost is absorbed by state and local governments.

• The federal government recovers about 1/3 of its share of the costs of illegal immigration in the form of taxes paid by illegal aliens. However, states – which bear a much greater share of the costs of illegal immigration – only recover 5 percent of their expenditures from taxes paid by illegal aliens.

• Illegal aliens pay a total of about $13 billion per year in taxes. However, the study points out that governments at all levels would likely have realized significantly greater revenues if jobs held by illegal aliens had been filled by legal U.S. residents instead.

• Contrary to the arguments of the open borders lobby, amnesty would not significantly increase tax revenues from current illegal aliens. In fact, over time, amnesty would dramatically increase public costs because newly-legalized aliens would become eligible for all means-tested government programs.

FAIR President Dan Stein commented on the importance of this new report: “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers provides a definitive response to the question of whether illegal aliens are a net benefit or a net drain on government coffers. The report examines virtually every federal, state and local government program to determine the impact of illegal immigration on the bottom line. That bottom line, $113 billion a year and growing, makes our nation’s failure to control illegal immigration one of the largest preventable burdens borne by American taxpayers. If political leaders in Washington and state capitals want to understand why the American public is demanding enforcement of our immigration laws, The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers provides 113 billion good reasons.” (FAIR Press Release, July 6, 2010).