Each illegal immigrant costs the U.S. more per year than it spends on the average food stamp recipient or Medicaid beneficiary, according to an analysis by the House Budget Committee that was shared first with The Washington Times.
Immigrants walk down the sidewalk outside a shelter in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, after receiving some items Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. The death of a 5-year-old migrant boy and reported illnesses in other children living at the shelter has …
“And state and local governments don’t borrow from China, like the federal government, and they can’t print money, so the disproportionate burden here is on state and local governments,” he said. “They either have to cut services to their citizens, or they have to raise taxes.” Mr. Arrington called the cost “extraordinary” and “unsustainable” for counties like Kinney across the country by placing a “cumulative cost and the strain it’s putting on services to our fellow Americans.”
Mr. Biden last week added another layer of benefits to some illegal immigrants when he granted “Dreamers” here under the DACA program access to Obamacare and its tax subsidies.
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