Estimates reveal that illegal immigration has costed American taxpayers billions of dollars over the past few years.
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the amount cost U.S. citizens up to $150 billion annually.
“At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $182 billion to cover the costs incurred from the presence of more than 15.5 million illegal aliens, and about 5.4 million citizen children of illegal aliens. That amounts to a cost burden of approximately $8,776 per illegal alien/citizen child. The burden of illegal immigration on U.S. taxpayers is both staggering and crippling, with the gross cost per taxpayer at $1,156 every year,” FAIR said.
“Illegal aliens only contribute roughly $32 billion in taxes at the state, local, and federal levels. This means that the net fiscal cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers totals approximately $150.7 billion.”
Despite the high cost of illegal immigration on taxpayers, special interest groups are currently lobbying lawmakers to expand the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) with special privilege for illegal aliens to secure the tax credit.
“Currently, the law does not require either the parents or dependent children to be citizens or otherwise have lawful status (such as legal permanent residence) in order to claim the ACTC,” FAIR reported.
“It only requires that the dependent children have social security numbers. That means illegal alien parents can file tax returns using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number and claim the credit for qualifying children.”
