The Biden Administration’s lax approach to immigration enforcement is creating a situation where anyone who manages to make it across the border is allowed to stay. Unfortunately, that means taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill – and it’s a bill that could end up costing us billions of dollars.
Let’s take a look at the numbers. An internal City Hall memo says that if Biden’s open border policies remain unchecked, New York City taxpayers could be on the hook for an estimated $4.2 billion through the middle of next year – double what Mayor Adams previously estimated. Add in another 1 million got-aways – border infiltrators who were detected but not apprehended – and the lifetime cost for taxpayers soars to more than $200 billion.
That’s enough to buy every NFL team and still have $60 billion left over. That’s the entire budget of New York, a city of 8.5 million, for two whole years, or five years of funding for NYC’s schools.
Studies show that illegal immigrants tend to be significantly less educated than legal ones or the native-born, and less-educated people, whether they’re immigrants or native born, on average make less money and thus pay little in taxes, while making greater use of taxpayer-funded government services
. This means that the costs of the Biden Administration’s lax immigration policies are already staggering, and they could keep increasing.
It’s time to demand that our leaders take responsibility for their actions and put an end to these disastrous open border policies.
We can’t afford to have our government weaponized to benefit certain political parties, and we can’t afford to have our tax dollars wasted on policies that have no benefit to the majority of the population. We need to put an end to the Democrats’ open border policies now, before it’s too late.
It’s Time to Put an End to the Democrats’ Disastrous Open Border Policies