Amnestied Illegals Will Cost Taxpayers $2 Trillion

If allowed to stand, President Obama’s amnesty edict will cost taxpayers $2 trillion in net lifetime benefits bestowed on illegal aliens, according to poverty expert Robert Rector.

Rector crunched the numbers after Obama announced the details of his plan, using the estimate of 4 million illegals accepting Obama’s “deal,” and concluded it would cost the Social Security and Medicare programs $1 trillion over the lives of the amnestied illegals. Rector points out that the average illegal has a 10th grade education and low income: “Given their expected earnings…they will draw about three dollars worth of benefits out of those programs over their lifetimes for every dollar they put into them.”

The second trillion dollars in cost, according to Rector, will result from means-tested welfare programs. While initially barred from such programs, amnestied illegals will gradually acquire green cards and welfare rights, for example as their “citizen children” reach age 21 and can “sponsor” them. “Even if they are waiting 10 or 12 years to get access to these programs, that is still a trillion dollar cost once they begin to get into them,” Rector told Breitbart News on Monday.

Source:  http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/24/Robert-Rector-Amnestied-Illegal-Immigrants-to-Cost-Taxpayers-2-Trillion-Over-Their-Lifetime

Posted 11/25/14 by Andrew Lewis

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