The fiscal burden of illegal aliens on U.S. taxpayers is $115 billion

Article CAIRCO note: 
That's over 11 times the $20 billion cost of a border wall
Article publisher: 
FAIR
Article date: 
12 December 2018
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

Total fiscal burden of illegal aliens on U.S. taxpayers:

$115,894,597,664

A continually growing population of illegal aliens, along with the federal government’s ineffective efforts to secure our borders, present significant national security and public safety threats to the United States. They also have a severely negative impact on the nation’s taxpayers at the local, state, and national levels. Illegal immigration costs Americans billions of dollars each year. Illegal aliens are net consumers of taxpayer-funded services and the limited taxes paid by some segments of the illegal alien population are, in no way, significant enough to off set the growing financial burdens imposed on U.S. taxpayers by massive numbers of uninvited guests....