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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Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is openly courting President Donald Trump’s working class, American-worker supporters in the Rust Belt with a campaign swing through Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, capped off with a Fox News town hall.
The openly socialist leftist senator, who in 2020 is seeking the Democrat nomination for president for the second time in his political life after failing to beat former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016’s Democrat primary, is clearly openly courting Trump’s most ardent supporters in a series of states the president won over Clinton.
Sanders will begin his midwest Rust Belt swing with a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, at James Madison Park on Friday at 5 p.m. From there he will travel to Gary, Indiana, on Saturday morning for a community meeting that is closed to the public but open to press, then on Saturday afternoon he travels to Coopersville, Michigan, for a meeting with the local Plumbers and Pipefitters UA Local 174 labor union–then it’s off to Warren, Michigan, for a Saturday evening rally at 5 p.m. again.
On Sunday, Sanders heads to Lordstown, Ohio, the site of a closing General Motors plant, for a “Workers Town Hall Meeting” with American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union president Randi Weingarten. Later that night, Sanders heads to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a rally again at 5 p.m. that is open to the public.
Monday afternoon sees Sanders in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, for another union meeting this time with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, before he wraps the Rust Belt campaign swing with a bang in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with a Fox News town hall–directly targeting Trump’s base.
Sanders hitting Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania all in a 4-day Rust Belt campaign swing is no accident. He is clearly trying to win back some of the working class Democrats who flipped to voting for Trump, making the difference in the 2016 presidential election. The so-called “Trumpocrats” flipped states such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan into Trump’s and the GOP’s column for the first time in a generation, and helped the president win in other key battleground states like Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina. Issues they are focused on include the economy, immigration, trade (especially regarding China and Mexico), and healthcare, among other matters.
“The people that are going to decide this election in Minnesota and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Michigan, they know this [that the left’s immigration and trade policies are driving down wages and taking jobs from Americans] and a whole lot of them have Democrat written on their voter card,” Billy Bova, one such Trumpocrat who helped the president win in 2016 by campaigning with other Democrats for Trump in Rust Belt states, said on Breitbart News Daily earlier this week. “They voted for Donald Trump, and if the GOP establishment and Democratic Party stays on this path of open borders and not being serious about border security and controlling our immigration and reforming our immigration policy, they’ll elect Donald Trump again.”
Trump’s 306 electoral votes, which came from wins in 30 and a half states–he took the second congressional district in Maine, a state that splits its awarding of electoral votes–but perhaps the three most important states were Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Between the three of them, Trump’s slim wins over Clinton delivered him enough electoral votes to cross the 270 threshold and claim the White House–if all three went Democrat and the rest of the map was the same, even with everything else Trump won he would not have won the presidency. Sanders, a savvy political operator who’s been in national politics for decades and has served in the U.S. Senate for many, many years, clearly understands this as he travels to these states to try to win these voters back for Democrats should he emerge as the eventual Democrat nominee.
What’s also interesting is that Sanders’ fellow top 2020 Democrat contender former Vice President Joe Biden, who has all but officially declared candidacy for the nomination, also does fairly well with these voters–meaning that these voters, the Trumpocrats, are the ones who will decide the election in 2020 both in the Democrat primary and in the general election and each of the smarter candidates knows that. Ultimately, and perhaps most importantly, that means the party’s leftist base–the cosmopolitan elites in urban areas like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco, among other places–will not have as much of a deciding factor as the working class American workers in the heartland of the country.
‘Breaking Point:’ Migrant Family Apprehension Up 374 Percent, Say Feds
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Border Patrol officials announced that the apprehension of migrant families who crossed the border illegally between ports of entry skyrocketed by 374 percent when compared to the first six months of the last fiscal year. Agents apprehended 189,584 Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) during the first six months of Fiscal Year 2018, which began on October 1, 2018. This is up from 39,975 during the same period in Fiscal Year 2018.
“The Border Patrol is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis,” U.S. Border Patrol Chief Law Enforcement Director Brian Hastings told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday. “We’ve arrived at the breaking point.”
During the month of March, Border Patrol agents apprehended 53,077 FMUAs — mostly in the Rio Grande Valley and El Paso Sectors. In addition, agents apprehended another 8,975 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC). Border Patrol officials define a family unit as one adult parent or guardian traveling with one or more minors. One year earlier, agents apprehended only 8,875 FMUAs and 4,140. In March 2017, agents apprehended 1,126 family units and 1,041 unaccompanied minors.
The nearly 190,000 migrant families apprehended during the first six months of the year compares to 107,212 for all of Fiscal Year 2018 and 75,622 for all of Fiscal Year 2017.
Due to overcrowding, Border Patrol began directly releasing non-criminal migrants on their own recognizance to nonprofits, charities, or to bus stations. Since the new policy began on March 19, Hastings said that more than 11,000 have been released. All migrants undergo a criminal background and medical check prior to release.
The relatively new human smuggling tactic of crossing migrants in large groups is also negatively impacting the agency’s ability to prosecute its national security mission. Border Patrol defines a large migrant group as more than 100 migrants. So far this year, Border Patrol agents have encountered 100 large groups — 60 of those in very remote areas. During all of FY 2018, Border Patrol agents only encountered 13 large groups — only two in FY 2017.
During a two-day period in March, Rio Grande Valley Agents encountered seven large groups totaling nearly 900 migrants between them.
The largest number of migrant family units apprehended so far this year came to the U.S. from Guatemala (90,447). This is followed by Honduras (72,728), El Salvador (17,396), and Mexico (1,573). For Unaccompanied minors, 16,392 came from Guatemala, 9,138 from Honduras, 5,024 from Mexico and 4,479 from El Salvador.
The record number of migrant family apprehensions forced Border Patrol leaders to divert 40 percent of agents from their national border security duties and place them on humanitarian duties including processing, transportation, medical screening, and hospital watch, Hastings stated. Currently, Border Patrol agents are referring 63 migrants per day to medical facilities at a tremendous cost to the agency and taxpayers. Hastings said that Border Patrol has spent $4 million on “hospital watch” so far this year. This cost is for the agents who have to stay with migrants who are in the hospital due to illness or injury. This is on pace to exceed $12 million for this fiscal year.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for the Breitbart Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
92K Migrants Apprehended After Illegally Crossing Border in March
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced on Tuesday that Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 92,000 migrants after they illegally crossed between points of entry in March. The apprehensions represent a 35 percent increase over February’s numbers. So far this fiscal year, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 385,000 migrants.
This chart from CBP depicts the total number of migrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents or determined to be non-admissible by CBP officers.
During a briefing hosted by CBP Office of Public Affairs, United States Border Patrol Chief Law Enforcement Operations Directorate Brian Hastings told reporters that during March, Border Patrol agents apprehended 92,607 migrants. This is up from nearly 66,884 in February — a 35 percent increase. When compared to the first six months of Fiscal Year 2018, FY2019 has seen a greater than 100 percent increase, he stated. So far this year, Border Patrol agents apprehended more migrants than in all of FY 2017.
The massive number of apprehensions in March follows February’s Southwest Border Migration Report showing more than 66,000 migrants apprehended after illegally crossing the border between ports of entry. February’s report indicated the highest number of apprehensions in more than 12 years, officials said.
Of the more than 92,000 migrants apprehended after illegally crossing the border, 33,000 were Family Unit Aliens, 8,900 were Unaccompanied Alien Children, and 30,000 were single adults.
Hastings reported that Family Unit Alien apprehensions for this fiscal year are up 375 percent over the previous year’s numbers.
The record number of migrant family apprehensions forced Border Patrol leaders to divert 40 percent of agents from their national border security duties and place them on humanitarian duties including processing, transportation, medical screening, and hospital watch, Hastings stated. Currently, Border Patrol agents are referring 63 migrants per day to medical facilities at a tremendous cost to the agency and taxpayers. Hastings said that Border Patrol has spent $4 million on “hospital watch” so far this year. This cost is for the agents who have to stay with migrants who are in the hospital due to illness or injury. This is on pace to exceed $12 million for this fiscal year.
He predicted that the agency will make more than 31,000 hospital referrals in FY 2019 compared to about 2,000 for all of last year.
In total, Hastings predicted that the Border Patrol budget will be depleted by more than $90 million for cost related to the humanitarian services created by the current crisis.
Due to overcrowding, Border Patrol officials directly began releasing non-criminal migrants on their own recognizance to NGOs or to bus stations. Since the new policy began on March 19, Hastings said that more than 11,000 have been released. All migrants undergo a criminal background and medical check prior to being released.
The relatively new human smuggling tactic of crossing migrants in large groups is also negatively impacting the agency’s ability to prosecute its national security mission. Border Patrol officials define a large migrant group as being more than 100 migrants. So far this year, Border Patrol agents have encountered 100 large groups — 60 of those were in very remote areas. During all of FY 2018, Border Patrol agents only encountered 13 large groups — only two in FY 2017.
During a two-day period in March, Rio Grande Valley Agents encountered seven large groups totaling nearly 900 migrants.
These large groups represent a security risk for the agents, he said, as the agents are heavily outnumbered when they encounter the group. Secondly, he said the large groups tie up Border Patrol agents who must be pulled from front-line duties to provide initial screening, transportation, and processing of the migrant group.
The director of operations said the criminal organizations in Mexico exploit this as an opportunity to move drugs and other high-value human cargo across the border while agents are tied up with the large groups.
On average, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 3,000 migrants per day during the month of March.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for the Breitbart Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
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