Exclusive–Steve Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over Their Lifetime
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Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime, costs American taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steve Camarota says.
During an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Camarota said his research has revealed the enormous financial burden that illegal immigration has on America’s working and middle class taxpayers in terms of public services, depressed wages, and welfare.
“In a person’s lifetime, I’ve estimated that an illegal border crosser might cost taxpayers … maybe over $70,000 a year as a net cost,” Camarota said. “And that excludes the cost of their U.S.-born children, which gets pretty big when you add that in.”
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“Once [an illegal alien] has a child, they can receive cash welfare on behalf of their U.S.-born children,” Camarota explained. “Once they have a child, they can live in public housing. Once they have a child, they can receive food stamps on behalf of that child. That’s how that works.”
Camarota said the education levels of illegal aliens, border crossers, and legal immigrants are largely to blame for the high level of welfare usage by the f0reign-born population in the U.S., noting that new arrivals tend to compete for jobs against America’s poor and working class communities.
In past waves of mass immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did not have an expansive welfare system. Today’s ever-growing welfare system, coupled with mass illegal and legal immigration levels, is “extremely problematic,” according to Camarota, for American taxpayers.
The RAISE Act — reintroduced in the Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration levels in half and convert the immigration system to favor well-educated foreign nationals, thus relieving American workers and taxpayers of the nearly five-decade-long wave of booming immigration. Currently, mass legal immigration redistributes the wealth of working and middle class Americans to the country’s top earners.
“Virtually none of that existed in 1900 during the last great wave of immigration, when we also took in a number of poor people. We didn’t have a well-developed welfare state,” Camarota continued:
We’re not going to stop [the welfare state] tomorrow. So in that context, bringing in less educated people who are poor is extremely problematic for public coffers, for taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900 because the roads weren’t even paved between the cities in 1900. It’s just a totally different world. And that’s the point of the RAISE Act is to sort of bring in line immigration policy with the reality say of a large government … and a welfare state. [Emphasis added]
The immigrants are not all coming to get welfare and they don’t immediately sign up, but over time, an enormous fraction sign their children up. It’s likely the case that of the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, more than half are signed up for Medicaid — which is our most expensive program. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News has reported, U.S. households headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households headed by native-born Americans.
Every year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.
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During an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Camarota said his research has revealed the enormous financial burden that illegal immigration has on America’s working and middle class taxpayers in terms of public services, depressed wages, and welfare.
“In a person’s lifetime, I’ve estimated that an illegal border crosser might cost taxpayers … maybe over $70,000 a year as a net cost,” Camarota said. “And that excludes the cost of their U.S.-born children, which gets pretty big when you add that in.”
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“Once [an illegal alien] has a child, they can receive cash welfare on behalf of their U.S.-born children,” Camarota explained. “Once they have a child, they can live in public housing. Once they have a child, they can receive food stamps on behalf of that child. That’s how that works.”
Camarota said the education levels of illegal aliens, border crossers, and legal immigrants are largely to blame for the high level of welfare usage by the f0reign-born population in the U.S., noting that new arrivals tend to compete for jobs against America’s poor and working class communities.
In past waves of mass immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did not have an expansive welfare system. Today’s ever-growing welfare system, coupled with mass illegal and legal immigration levels, is “extremely problematic,” according to Camarota, for American taxpayers.
The RAISE Act — reintroduced in the Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration levels in half and convert the immigration system to favor well-educated foreign nationals, thus relieving American workers and taxpayers of the nearly five-decade-long wave of booming immigration. Currently, mass legal immigration redistributes the wealth of working and middle class Americans to the country’s top earners.
“Virtually none of that existed in 1900 during the last great wave of immigration, when we also took in a number of poor people. We didn’t have a well-developed welfare state,” Camarota continued:
We’re not going to stop [the welfare state] tomorrow. So in that context, bringing in less educated people who are poor is extremely problematic for public coffers, for taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900 because the roads weren’t even paved between the cities in 1900. It’s just a totally different world. And that’s the point of the RAISE Act is to sort of bring in line immigration policy with the reality say of a large government … and a welfare state. [Emphasis added]The immigrants are not all coming to get welfare and they don’t immediately sign up, but over time, an enormous fraction sign their children up. It’s likely the case that of the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, more than half are signed up for Medicaid — which is our most expensive program. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News has reported, U.S. households headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of households headed by native-born Americans.
Every year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the vast majority deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the foreign-born population reached a record high of 44.5 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S. will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.
Breitbart News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
When will this nightmare end?
What will it take? Another two years? Another 19 hardened Democrat lawyers and 40 professional staffers? Another 500 witnesses? Another 50 million dollars spent, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants?
After almost three years of being saturated in a unending tsunami of every form of media, academic, and entertainment venues, after almost three years of pronouncements of daily imminent and incontrovertible proof of Trumpian "collusion," we finally have a report that tells us, Never mind, nothing here to look at, go about your business, forget you were ever led to believe otherwise. This shock is as great as the shock felt by the adoring Hillary crowd that predicted her overwhelming "landslide" victory in her run for president. So sure, but so wrong...twice.
Why is there no media coverage of what the Clintons were involved in? Selling access for contributions to the Clinton Foundation, commonly known as "pay for play." The Democrats selling the rights to Russian oligarchs for North American uranium. Bill getting $500,000 for a 20-minute speech to a hedge fund. Signing a treaty with Iran that imperils our future and freeing up the Iranians' previously blocked assets so they can support insurgent organizations like Hamas and Fatah, who kill Jews, Christians, and American soldiers whenever and wherever they can. How about Hillary bleaching her server? Violently destroying her phones, having a private email server over which confidential messages were sent and received?
The real collusion was Democrat collusion, starting with Steele's phony and salacious dossier, filled with falsehoods and a moving curtain of lies invented by the Russian FSB (AKA KGB), purchased with Clinton's $165,000 passed through a DNC Washington law firm to fool FISA judges four times to bring innocent citizens to their knees and financial ruin. A DOJ and FBI infiltrated by rogue high-ranking officials who were committed to doing anything in their power to change an election, and if that plan failed, they planned an "insurance policy" to have Trump impeached at worst or impeded and powerless at best.
If it's true that Putin had in mind using a Trump Tower in Moscow to boost his prestige and easing of tensions between our two countries as being mutually beneficial, then explain to me why, once Trump ratcheted up the sanctions on Russia, Putin did not either surreptitiously or obviously allow evidence to come forward that would be damaging to Trump if, in fact, Trump is a Putin puppet.
Like the jurors in the O.J. trial, except to opposite effect — who would not under any conditions, video included, with O.J. smiling and waving at the camera holding a bloody knife in his hands, have found him guilty — the MSM just choose to ignore the Mueller report because it didn't deliver the promise they thought had been made — and that they were so sure would be delivered.
As to immigration, the mantra is, "We need a president who builds bridges, not walls, who recognizes that immigrants built this country, and who understands that diversity and dissent are part of the fabric of our democracy."
Walls are what our houses are made of, not bridges. Walls are what separate honest and law-abiding citizens from freeloaders, thieves, gang members, and drug-dealers. Leave your door unlocked from now on if you really believe that, after all, a door is a kind of wall, isn't it? The fabric of democracy is being rent by a "no border, everyone is welcome" policy. Our American identity cannot survive a continuous and unabated wave of illegal aliens. Is there a concrete number after which we can stop admitting them? Ten million? Twenty million? Why not 50 million? Why not just close up shop in Ecuador, and El Salvador, and some bordering Mexican states, and bring them all here? When is enough enough?
Hillary Clinton Claims ‘Make America Great Again’ Is a ‘White Nationalist Slogan’
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The loser of the 2016 presidential elections, Hillary Clinton, said Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” is a “white nationalist slogan.”
Clinton posted her proclamation to Twitter on Tuesday together with a link to a Huffington Post story claiming that “far-right extremists” have adopted Trump’s red campaign hat.
Along with the story, Clinton insisted that “The white nationalists certainly believe ‘MAGA’ is a white nationalist slogan.”
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The Huffington Post story linked insists that the president’s slogan is “transcending” American politics and becoming a “symbol” for “white nationalists” across the world.
“‘Make America Great Again’ has become more than a U.S. political slogan. For [Alexandre] Bissonette and other white nationalist, radical right and anti-immigrant extremists all over the world, it’s a symbol; a kind of political messaging that transcends the specifics of country and language,” the story by HuffPost senior reporter Nick Robins-Early exclaims.
“The hat and the MAGA acronym have really become shorthand for this white nationalist movement,” Barbara Perry, a professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, told HuffPost.
Clinton’s Tweet comes on the heels a large number of Democrats and members of the media once again pushing the lie that President Trump called immigrants “animals.”
Over the weekend, a tweet by Twitter user Mark Elliott received tens of thousands of retweets with its accusation that Trump called asylum seekers “animals.”
Several 2020 Democrat candidates for president re-tweeted the lie including New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and journalists such as Joy Reid and New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush also pushed the lie.
The original Twitter user later deleted the tweet “apologizing” for “not being more accurate” because as it turns out, the video clip Elliot tweeted out featured the president excoriating members of the murderous MS-13 gang, not asylum seekers as Elliot initially claimed.
Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.
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