What an utter waste of money that could be used for other things. Taxpayers Shell Out $151 Billion Each Year Due To Illegal Immigration, Analysis Says | The Daily Wire "The tax burden from illegal immigration at the federal, state, and local levels is roughly $150.7 billion per year, according to an analysis published on Wednesday by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The conservative advocacy group, which claims to publish the “only comprehensive examination of the financial impact of illegal immigration in the United States,” found that the cost of illegal immigration for taxpayers has increased by $35 billion over the past five years. Illegal immigrants generate some $32 billion in tax revenue, compared to the $182 billion they reportedly generate in public expenses. “The costs of providing for millions of people who have no legal right to be in the United States continues to grow at an alarming rate,” FAIR President Dan Stein said in comments provided to The Daily Wire. “Most of this enormous financial burden has been inflicted on taxpayers by the open borders advocates at every level of government.”
This is getting infuriating. We have a bunch of low skilled, uneducated, illegals pouring into our country. Many of whom claim asylum but in reality they just want to come here. Here is an idea, we send a million inner city thugs across the border and in exchange, take a million migrants who actually want to work. I will make that deal all day.
It can't be good for the USA to have so many low skilled, uneducated illegals pouring into the US. They are not seeking asylum, just want to be here and get free stuff. If we could send some of those inner city hoodlums down south, it would be good for the US.
"FAIR" lol Detailed Report Reasoning: Anti-Immigration Propaganda, Conspiracy Theories, Misleading Claims Bias Rating: EXTREME RIGHTFactual Reporting: LOW Country: USA Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Organization/Foundation Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY History The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a non-profit tax-exempt organization in the United States that advocates changes in U.S. immigration policy that they believe would result in significant reductions in immigration, both legal and illegal. FAIR was founded in 1979 by the ophthalmologist John Tanton, former historian of labor movements and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Otis L. Graham, Jr. and Sidney Swensrud, a former chairman of Gulf Oil. John Tanton is the founder of or involved in the creation of several Anti-Immigration groups that include Numbers USA and the Center for Immigration Studies, which is collectively known as the John Tanton Network. John Tanton believes maintaining an American culture requires “a European-American majority,” and according to the Southern Poverty Law Center he is a prominent figure in the white-nationalist movement. The current President of FAIR is Dan Stein. Read our profile on United States government and media. Funded by / Ownership According to their website “The Federation for American Immigration Reform is an independent, non-profit research organization.” FAIR does not disclose financial information on the website. However, one of the most prominent donors over the last 20+ years is the Colcom Foundation, established in 1996 by the late heiress Cordelia Scaife May. According to Inside Philanthropy, “Colcom’s top beneficiaries include every one of Tanton’s anti-immigration groups, including FAIR (over $18 million), NumbersUSA (over $17 million), Tanton’s Social Contract Press (over $10 million), and CIS (over $8 million). Further, “Between 1985 and 1994, FAIR received around $1.2 million in grants from the Pioneer Fund. The Pioneer Fund is a eugenicist organization that was started in 1937 by men close to the Nazi regime who wanted to pursue “race betterment” by promoting the genetic lines of American whites. FAIR has a donation link on their website. Analysis / Bias According to the Southern Poverty Law Center “The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a group with one mission: to severely limit immigration into the United States. Although FAIR maintains a veneer of legitimacy that has allowed its principles to testify in Congress and lobby the federal government, this veneer hides much ugliness. Further, FAIR has ties to white supremacist groups. In review, FAIR publishes articles and research that is currently Pro-Trump, such as this: Trump Administration Immigration Accomplishments. They also routinely denigrate immigrants as criminals or dangerous for America such as these: Examples of Serious Crimes By Illegal Aliens and conspiracies such as Could Uncontrolled Immigration Expose Us to a Public Health Crisis? This latter article is sourced to a wide range of Questionable far-right sources such as Breitbart, Gatestone Institute, and Judicial Watch. According to the right-leaning Cato Institute, FAIR has published questionable research that is “fatally flawed.” Cato reports: “Its recent report, ‘The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers (2017)’ by Matthew O’Brien, Spencer Raley, and Jack Martin, estimates that the net fiscal costs of illegal immigration to U.S. taxpayers is $116 billion. FAIR’s report reaches that conclusion by vastly overstating the costs of illegal immigration, undercounting the tax revenue they generate, inflating the number of illegal immigrants, counting millions of U.S. citizens as illegal immigrants, and by concocting a method of estimating the financial costs that are rejected by all economists who work on this subject. Failed Fact Checks A factual search reveals a poor track record with fact-checkers. Overall, we rate FAIR Questionable based on Extreme Right-Wing Bias as it relates to immigration, promotion of propaganda and conspiracies, as well as having connections to documented Hate Groups. (9/7/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 03/01/2023)