Agencies that promote refugee resettlement in the U.S. claim that refugees provide a net fiscal benefit for this country. These agencies agencies profit from the taxpayers’ dollars they receive to conduct resettlement.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) recently produced a study showing that the fiscal benefit claim is “unsupportable.” It notes that “Although refugees from earlier generations were often well educated, today’s refugees have fewer than nine years of schooling on average. Because of their low earning power and immediate access to welfare benefits, recent refugees cost the government substantially more than they contribute in taxes, even over the long term.”
Read more at cis.org