The recent surge of illegal aliens to New York City will cost the city $4.2 billion through the middle of next year–according to an internal City Hall memo. This is twice the size of Mayor Eric Adams previous estimate.
Citing this example, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration studies asks what the total cost of the surge will come to nationwide. Citing the data from National Academies of Sciences, he estimates the total per migrant over that person’s lifetime will be around $80,000. Multiplying that figure times the nearly two million illegals that the Biden Administration has released into the country yields a total of close to $150 billion.
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