The border crisis is no longer just a crisis. It is a full-blown catastrophe that will bankrupt America.
Yesterday, September 22, Todd Bensman of CIS.org published an article in the UK’s Daily Mail that details the “unprecedented impact of illegal immigration into America.” Packed with data, the piece reveals the stunning extent of damage the Biden’s open-borders policies have done and, if continued, will do to American citizens and our country’s economy. Consider the following summary from the Daily Mail:
- During the current fiscal year (i.e., between October 2021 and August 2022), for the first time, the US Border Patrol reported 2.15 million encounters with migrants on the southern border. Bensman estimates by the end of September, that number will increase to 2.35 million.
- Under Biden, an average 139,000 illegal migrants have entered the US every month.
- At least 900,000 “got-aways” have entered during this fiscal year. Such estimates are always uncertain and usually much lower than the real numbers.
- The Biden administration has already legally paroled some 1.4 million family members and unaccompanied minors into America.
These numbers, in Bensman’s words, are “literally off the charts.”
And the worst is most likely yet to come. If Biden abolishes Title 42, as he has vowed, as many as 540,000 migrants a month or 18,000 a day could enter. In that case, Biden’s first term could end with seven million or more new migrants in America – more than the size of Los Angeles and Chicago combined.
The costs of this degree of migrant absorption would be inconceivable.
In a September 16 New York Post piece, Mark Krikorian of CIS.org calculated the difference between the taxes likely to be paid in by the relatively low-skilled illegal migrants being admitted versus their drain on the treasury and estimated the lifetime costs to be more than $100 billion. That sum is added to the $140 billion a year we are currently paying for benefits and services to the existing illegal alien population.
But that’s not all. The potential costs to individual communities and states around the country are not factored into those figures. Much of those costs will come from a requirement placed on them by the 1982 Supreme Court in its Plyler v. Doe decision, which declared that “non-citizen children of illegal immigrants must be given a free K-12 education.” This requirement alone could bankrupt some school districts that are being packed with those children. Consider the following:
- The Austin, Texas, school district, in April 2022 racked up a 400-student influx of immigrant teenagers at just two of its schools. Teachers, who were consequently forced to hold classes in hallways, held a protest.
- In the 11 months ending in August 2021, 5,000 immigrant children flooded into four NYC-area counties, costing taxpayers an additional $139 million.
- From October 2021 to July 2022, Los Angeles County took in 4,579 unaccompanied children, Miami-Dade County took in 2,306, and the county around Houston, Texas, absorbed 7,170. Across the country, school districts absorbed a total of 107,742.
- In the previous four years, which included Biden’s term so far and the last two Trump years, two million children illegally here have been added to the 49.5 million students already in public schools, an increase of four percent.
This level of migrant packing is unsustainable. At this rate, America’s largesse to the world’s excess will destroy us all. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
For more, see the Daily Mail.