By A.W. Morgan
04/25/2023
Earlier: Nancy Pelosi Shouldn’t Count Too Much On Tax Revenues From The DREAM Act Kids
Pawel Styrna, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, has helpfully fact-checked the latest from pro-Great Replacement CNN, which updated a piece from 2019 to claim that illegals benefit us because they, too, pay taxes [Undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes today, too, by Catherine E. Shoichet, April 18, 2023]. Conclusion: Don’t believe the leftist Mainstream Media Megaphone. Illegals are a net drain on state and the federal treasuries.
Like the rest of the pro-mass-migration lobby, CNN manipulates Americans by touting taxes paid by illegal aliens while ignoring the much greater costs that illegal immigration places on U.S. taxpayers. https://t.co/urARtekEft
— Federation for American Immigration Reform (@FAIRImmigration) April 25, 2023
Before getting to Styrna’s analysis, here’s a snippet from CNN’s Shoichet, who found the usual suspect to make her point:
“Undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes to fund programs they can’t access,” the National immigration Law Center wrote in a series of recent social media posts.
In 2017, Belén Sisa’s post about her experience paying taxes went viral.
“Wanna tell me again how I should be deported, contribute nothing and only leech off this country while the 1% wealthiest people in this country steal from you everyday?” wrote Sisa, who was a college student in Arizona at the time.
Boo-hoo.
Styrna’s needed correction offered an amusing take. The math geniuses at CNN underestimated what illegals pay.
“According to FAIR’s cost study of the fiscal burden of illegal immigration, illegal aliens pay $16.2 billion in federal taxes and $15.2 billion in state and local taxes, a total of $31.4 billion annually as of 2022/202,” Styrna reported [Fact-Checking CNN’s Deceptive Narrative About Illegal Alien Tax Payments, April 24, 2023].
More importantly, illegals cost the rest of us hundreds of billions:
[T]he total cost of illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children to American taxpayers is $182 billion a year (i.e., $150.7 billion after illegal alien taxes are taken into account). In other words, we are forced to provide six dollars in benefits and services for every dollar paid in taxes by the unlawfully present. That is most definitely not a good deal.
No, that isn’t a good deal, particularly looking at the massive influx of illegals since Traitor Joe Biden took office.
As Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies recently reported, he has released more than 2 million illegals into the country, and another more than 1 million are got-aways [Biden’s Released at Least 2,020,522 Southwest Border Migrants, April 17, 2023].
How many of those FAIR included in its cost-summary of illegals is unclear. That Biden has loosed the near equivalent of the population of Los Angeles upon the country is clear.
Also clear: The Historic American Nation is paying for its own dispossession and replacement.
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