A claim now being pushed by refugee advocates is that refugees are a net economic asset, a strange assertion given that they are selected on the basis of supposed humanitarian concerns, not on the basis of their economic worth.
A recent study from the Center for Immigration Studies noted that “Advocates of expanding the number of refugees admitted to the United States have lately portrayed their position as a win-win — refugee resettlement not only assists the refugees themselves, it also allegedly improves our nation’s fiscal health.
“The fiscal claim is unsupportable,” said the authors of the study. From their findings, they concluded that, “Our best estimate of the average refugee’s lifetime fiscal cost, expressed as a net present value, is $60,000, with those entering as adults (ages 25 to 64) costing $133,000 each.”
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