Breitbart: American taxpayers will spend more than $4.1 billion in the 2017 budget to support the 519,018 refugees who have been resettled by the federal government in the United States since October 2009, according to a cost estimate by Breitbart News.
To put that very large number in context, $4.1 billion can buy 10,677 new homes for $384,000 each, which is the average price of a new home sold in the United States in December 2016. Or it could buy 170,124 new autos for $24,100 each, which is the manufacturer’s suggested retail price for a 2017 Chevrolet Malibu.
Even if the Trump administration were to entirely shut down the flow of refugees into the United States in FY 2018 and beyond, the refugees who have already arrived in the country will cost at least another $3.5 billion in 2018, and about $2 billion to $3 billion annually thereafter until FY 2022 and beyond.
The annual $4.1 billion cost of these refugees is about eight percent of “the total annual fiscal impact of first generation [immigrants to the United States] and their dependents, averaged across 2011-2013,” which the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in September 2016, estimated “is a cost of $57.4 billion.” MORE
We shouldn’t have to pay. The brotherhood should be the ones financing their army.
/it’s an army
The Democrats will tell you it’s an investment in the future, of their party.
it’s just so wonderful to know that we had absolutely no say in the matter
obama did what he wanted to, no pushback, went against the people all the way, pen and phone was enough for the menace who came to rule, not lead
and now he settles in to a lavish lifestyle, $20 million book advance, massive pension and gov’t monies, while trump tries to pull this disaster together
and assholes like the senile mccain are the worst of the worst, rinos who facilitated this american decline
i suppose it’s ok to say god damn america for the absolute destruction that obama and clinton voters brought to our once great land
god speed, mr trump
According to these figures that comes out to about $8000 per refugee. I’m willing to bet this is way lower than the actual cost. They’re probably not adding medical and education costs.
Heck, we spent over 100 million dollars just funding the pleasure urges of an illicit African couple over an eight year time period!
“Never give a sucker an even break.”
Taxpayers are sheep to be fleeced; and when sufficiently shorn, they’re mutton.
This abuse is directly attributable to Congress – and to Congress, alone.
Congress can put a stop to this madness any time, simply by the de-funding.
But Congress is infested with treasonous plunderers masquerading as “protectors” of the “innocent” even though the “innocent” are non tax payers. You can bet your 401k or IRA that the skim off the top of that $4.1 Billion is substantial.
izlamo delenda est …
And knowing they’ll be democrat voters they are seeded in conservative locations hoping to turn red counties blue.
The United States has become the world’s cesspool for dumping undesirables.
~$7,900 / refugee / year.
As the article points out, probably a lot more.
Another good argument for eliminating ALL the involved programs for EVERYONE in the United States.
Get us out of being a “give-away-government!” Abolish ALL government “safety nets” and force people to build their own public or private ones (co-ops, churches, etc.)
And get your grubby hands out of my wallet! I’ll decide who I want to help, thank you.
Lyndon Johnson lives in Hell – which is where we’re headed.
Let’s have a referendum on this. Why should immigrants cost us anything? Canada will take them!
And the holier-than-thou “elites” constantly tell us how horrible we are not to want more of this theft for votes.
Trump needs to get on the ball. I voted for him to end Obamacare and get rid of all the people on the left.
Oops I mean get rid of all the illegals
Obamacare can be stopped dead by executive order do it today.
Turn off the spigot and we’ll find out real quick whut they’re really here for!
There is nothing in the Consitution that requires taxpayers to pay for their own invasion. Where are the Constitutional experts defending the republic and it’s citizens?
I say carve out a piece of land over there and ship them back to where they belong. They don’t mix with Western culture.