THEY ASSAULT OUR
BORDERS, JOBS, WELFARE LINES AND INSTITUTIONS.
He added, “Illegal
immigration, in particular, drives down wages and inhibits job opportunities
for legal residents, while bringing more low-skilled, low-wage workers to these
states. In turn, this increases costs to state and local governments, and
discourages investment by businesses seeking a skilled labor force and lower
overhead.” PAUL BEDARD
Illegal immigrants cost taxpayers $6.5K a
year each: Report
by Paul Bedard
Illegal immigrants in
growing numbers are flooding into so-called sanctuary cities and states where
they are consuming up to $6,500 in taxpayer-funded services, according to a new
review of costs in 10 small states.
The surge is having an outsized effect on smaller states
and is cutting funds for services to veterans, children, and disabled
Americans, according to the report provided exclusively to Secrets from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
The report said illegal immigration costs the 10 states
$454 million. “To put that figure into context, that $454 million expenditure
is more than 200 times what the state of Montana budgets for its entire
Veterans Affairs program, and it is 2.5 times the total sum that West Virginia
invests in its state university,” said the report.
And, it added, illegal immigrants cost between $4,000 and
$6,500 annually above any tax benefit they provide.
“In many ways, the influx of immigrants into less populous
areas of the country has an even greater impact on long-time residents than it
does in larger and more urban areas,” said Dan Stein, president of FAIR. “These
areas have neither the tax base, nor the economic and social infrastructure to
accommodate the needs of the growing numbers of immigrants taking up
residence.”
The 10 states analyzed in the study, Small Migrant Populations, Huge Impacts, were New Hampshire, Mississippi, Alaska,
Maine, North Dakota, West Virginia, South Dakota, Vermont, Montana, and
Wyoming.
“Many local officials tout immigration, including illegal
immigration, as a remedy to economic stagnation. However, as this report
reveals, the reality is precisely the opposite,” said Stein.
He added, “Illegal immigration, in particular, drives down
wages and inhibits job opportunities for legal residents, while bringing more
low-skilled, low-wage workers to these states. In turn, this increases costs to
state and local governments, and discourages investment by businesses seeking a
skilled labor force and lower overhead.”
The report comes on the heels of a key U.S. Supreme Court decision to let the
Trump administration block entry to immigrants who are likely to burden
taxpayers.
FAIR’s report also showed that sanctuary cities are a
growing attraction for illegal immigrants, especially in smaller states where
the costs of living can be lower.
The key findings from the report to Secrets:
- In each of these states, each illegal immigrant resident
carried a net tax deficit of between $4,000 and $6,500 annually.
- Some 415,000 foreign-born reside in these 10 states, of
whom about 88,000 (or 21%) are illegal immigrants. Additionally, there are
about 35,000 U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants in these states.
- Collectively, these illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born
children cost taxpayers in the 10 states about $454 million each year for
the provision of essential services such as education and healthcare.
- Local schools struggle to provide educators and cover
the costs of instruction for 50,000 K-12 students classified as Limited
English Proficient.
- A growing number of sanctuary jurisdictions (29 and
counting, including the entire state of Vermont), and lower living costs
are a magnet for illegal immigrants.
- The growing immigrant population competes with legal residents
for jobs in economically depressed areas.
“This report highlights the fact that the adverse effects
of unchecked mass immigration, combined with an immigration selection process
that does not choose people based on individual merit, job skills and education,
are now being felt in all parts of the country. Americans, in every part of the
nation, are being affected by antiquated and unenforced immigration policies,
which is why it is at the top of the list of voter concerns heading into the
2020 elections,” said Stein.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
America builds the La Raza
“The Race” Mexican welfare state
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a
Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
IT’S MEXICO
SUCKING THE BLOOD OF AMERICA…. HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS FOR WELFARE, “FREE”
HEALTHCARE, HEROIN SALES, CRIME COST AND THEN THEY SEND TENS OF BILLIONS BACK
TO NARCOMEX
“In the U.S. the remittances that come of illegal immigration
drive down U.S. wages, particularly of those on the lowest-skilled parts of the
ladder, and as money flows out from local communities, leaves them
underinvested and run-down. Nobody can live two places at once. Illegal
immigrants live here but their money lives in Mexico. And it's often untaxed.”
MONICA SHOWALTER
Report: Taxpayers Forking Over Up to $6,500 per Illegal Alien
By Rob Shimshock |
A dollar sign is featured. (Photo credit: YouTube/Javier Velasco Barrero)
(CNSNews.com) -- Much of the media attention garnered by the border crisis typically revolves around states that border Mexico like Arizona and Texas. Yet a February report reveals the devastating economic consequences of illegal aliens on taxpayers as far north as Montana.
Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in the ten states with the fewest immigrants around $454 million per year, which works out to a net tax deficit of $4,000 to $6,500 per illegal, according to a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
“In many ways, the influx of immigrants into less populous areas of the country has an even greater impact on long-time residents than it does in larger and more urban areas,” FAIR President Dan Stein said in the report's news release. “These areas have neither the tax base, nor the economic and social infrastructure to accommodate the needs of the growing numbers of immigrants taking up residence.”
FAIR examined migration to Alaska, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming in its study and found that 88,000 out of the 415,000 foreign-born residents in these states are illegal aliens, or 21 percent. Around 35,000 others are citizen children of illegal aliens.
“Many local officials tout immigration, including illegal immigration, as a remedy to economic stagnation. However, as this report reveals, the reality is precisely the opposite,” Stein continued. “Illegal immigration, in particular, drives down wages and inhibits job opportunities for legal residents, while bringing more low-skilled, low-wage workers to these states. In turn, this increases costs to state and local governments, and discourages investment by businesses seeking a skilled labor force and lower overhead.”
FAIR notes that 29 sanctuary jurisdictions exist in these 10 states, including the whole state of Vermont.
The report also examined the financial implications of immigrants more generally, noting that more than 50,000 K-12 students in the ten states examined are categorized as having limited English proficiency (LEP). FAIR estimated that taxpayers spend $96 million on the education of these students.
Nationwide, the immigration nonprofit calculated that taxpayers spent $59.8 billion educating LEP students in 2016, up from $51.2 billion in 2010.
Matt O’Brien, director of research at FAIR, expanded on the impact of immigration on Lewiston, Maine, a city the nonprofit honed in on in its analysis, while speaking with CNSNews.com.
Lewiston, which has a population under 40,000, has taken in more than 7,500 migrants during the past decade-and-a-half. Between 2004 and 2017, the percentage of LEP students in the town went from five to 30 percent.
“You’re putting all of the kids that have to go through that school system at a deficit that they have to recover from after they get out of the public school system," O’Brien told CNSNews.com. “Now they have to compete with the massive amount of immigrants...as they’re trying to get entry-level jobs.”
The FAIR report highlighted employers’ preference for hiring foreign-born workers, who demand lower wages, over American citizens.
“This report highlights the fact that the adverse effects of unchecked mass immigration, combined with an immigration selection process that does not choose people based on individual merit, job skills and education, are now being felt in all parts of the country. Americans, in every part of the nation, are being affected by antiquated and unenforced immigration policies, which is why it is at the top of the list of voter concerns heading into the 2020 elections,” Stein concluded in the release.
Rob Shimshock is the Commentary Editor at CNSNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @ShimshockAndAwe.
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