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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

What’s The Cost Of Illegal Alien “Amnesty”?

How about $40 billion a year?

(Daily Caller) President Barack Obama’s amnesty for four million illegal immigrants will cost Americans about $2 trillion, or roughly $40 billion a year for the next five decades.

The cost of Obama’s generosity is equivalent to 30 cents extra for every gallon of gas bought by Americans.

Or a $10 monthly fee added to every cellphone.

Or a $22,000 tax on every American graduate’s four-year college degree.

The $2 trillion cost is driven by the federal government’s support for all poor people, says Robert Rector, a budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Rector explained that, on average, the illegal immigrants benefiting from the amnesty have a 10th grade education.

That low education ensures they can’t earn enough money, or pay enough taxes, to pay for the many benefits they’ll get if they progress from temporary residents to legal residents and then to citizens, Rector said.

No matter what Obama says, illegals who are part of Obama’s non-amnesty amnesty will end up with all sorts of government benefits. Democrats and the deferred action recipients will push and agitate for more services provided at government expense (followed by a push for the right to vote).

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