Americans Will Pay At Least $200B To Replace Themselves - Great Replacement Update

Article author: 
A.W. Morgan
Article publisher: 
VDare
Article date: 
20 February 2023
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
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In a report several years ago, the Center for Immigration Studies extrapolated data from the National Academy of Sciences to calculate an illegal alien’s lifetime cost to American taxpayers: $65,292 [Deportation vs. the Cost of Letting Illegal Immigrants Stay, by Steven Camarota, August 3, 2017]. Well, adjusting for inflation, the cost is now $80,000 each. That brings the total so far for Joe Biden’s border treason to a mind-boggling $200 billion.

CIS’s Mark Krikorian crunched the numbers after revealing that the illegals in New York City alone will cost taxpayers $4.2 billion.

Cost of Joe Biden's open borders: $200 billion, paid by you https://t.co/Z8mzkOjoeU That's just for the illegals Biden has *already* let in.
 -  Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) February 11, 2023

Here’s what you might call the money quote:

Adjusted for inflation, the lifetime cost to taxpayers of each illegal immigrant is over $80,000. Under Biden’s orders, Homeland Security has released into the United States nearly 2 million illegal border-crossers (so far!), meaning their lifetime cost to taxpayers will be close to $150 billion.

Add in another 1 million got-aways ... and the lifetime cost for taxpayers soars past $200 billion.

[Cost of Joe Biden’s open borders: $200 billion, paid by you, New York Post, February 10, 2023]...

But just to put the number in perspective, here’s what $200 billion actually means:

  • The entire gross domestic product of New Zealand, or Greece, or Peru.
  • The budget of New York, a city of 8.5 million, for two years.
  • Five years of funding for NYC’s schools.
  • Roughly 41% of what the nation spends on welfare overall in a year.
  • Enough to buy every NFL team and still have $60 billion left over...

Related

Cost of Joe Biden’s open borders: $200 billion, paid by you, by Mark Krikorian, New York Post, 10 February 2023.

Deportation vs. the Cost of Letting Illegal Immigrants Stay, by Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, 3 August 2017.

How many illegal aliens reside in the United States?