The Biden-Harris administration has been a catastrophe for the country.
Taxpayers are expected to foot the tab.
And Florida was handed a steep bill for this awful Biden-Harris administration failure.
The high price of illegal immigration
The border crisis that began in 2021 when the Biden-Harris administration began dismantling border security led to an influx of more than 11 million illegal aliens into the country – more than the population of North Carolina.
Illegal aliens have put a strain on cities across the nation with every state becoming a border state under Biden-Harris.
They’re vacuuming up taxpayer-provided resources like welfare, medical services, and housing.
Police have more work on their hands and they clog up the legal system.
A study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) calculated the price tag of illegal immigration for taxpayers.
FAIR found that taxpayers forked over more than $150 billion on government services and other costs for 20 million illegal aliens.
Most of that cost falls on the shoulders of state and local governments.
States far from the southern border are having their budgets busted by illegal immigration.
Massachusetts spent $3 billion on illegal aliens last year based on an estimate from FAIR.
And in New York City officials estimate that it will cost $3 billion in 2024 for services and support for illegal aliens.
Every state in the country is picking up the bill
Every single state in the country had to fork out money to cover the expenses associated with an influx of illegal aliens.
West Virginia had the smallest tab but the state still spent $33 million.
“As long as we keep allowing millions of people to come into the country illegally every year, it’s obviously going to continue to increase the costs,” FAIR spokesman Ira Mehlman told the New York Post.
“This seems to be just sort of basic, common sense,” Mehlman continued. “If you were going to be bringing in lots and lots of people, many of them working off the books for very low wages, that there are going to be enormous social costs incurred.”
Only seven states in the country spent less than $100 million on illegal aliens.
California has the highest bill in the country at $31 billion followed by Texas at $13 billion and Florida with $8 billion.
One of the bogus arguments used by Democrats is that illegal aliens are a net benefit because they pay taxes.
“The argument that illegal aliens pay more in taxes than they use in services, it’s completely misleading,” Mehlman said.
Former Yuma sector Border Patrol chief Chris Clem told the Post the buffet of taxpayer-provided benefits was a magnet for illegal aliens.
“It’s an atrocity to spend taxpayer money to support and help people that don’t even have the lawful right to be here because the federal government has got policies in place that are allowing this to occur,” Clem said.
“This is another pull factor because all they have to do is get arrested, turn themselves in and get released,” Clem added. “They are getting opportunities that you and I don’t get.”
Taxpayers are getting left with the check for the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous decision to open the border.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
