A deep dive into the cost of illegal immigration
JUNE 19, 2024
BY D.A. KING
The Cost of Illegal Immigration
National Affairs
Summer, 2024
The chaos at the border in recent years, along with even Democrat-run cities complaining about its impact, have cast into stark relief one of the central issues surrounding illegal immigration: its fiscal costs.
Unfortunately, most discussions on the subject tend to be filled with misconceptions, half-truths, and at times even outright falsehoods.
A fair read of the evidence indicates that illegal immigrants are almost certainly a net fiscal drain, but not because they are illegal per se. Nor is it because they are freeloaders or welfare cheats, or because they don’t pay any taxes.
The reason is that a very large share of illegal immigrants have modest levels of education, which results in modest incomes and tax payments, even when they are paid on the books.
Their generally low incomes also allow many of them to qualify for means-tested welfare programs, which they often receive on behalf of native-born children.
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