Biden's migrant crisis to cost US taxpayers $451 BILLION a year, claims staggering report
Biden's migrant crisis to cost US taxpayers $451 BILLION a year, claims staggering report
Reuters
Joe Biden’s mismanaged migrant crisis is costing US taxpayers an eye-watering $451billion a year, a damning new report has suggested.
The report, compiled by the Republican party on Monday, suggests nearly half a trillion dollars is being funnelled into paying for the crisis, including for healthcare and accommodation.
Hinting at Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s failure to stop migrants at the southern border, the report accuses the 63-year-old of accelerating illegal immigration.
Republicans are also pushing to impeach Mayorkas over his bungled handling of the migrant crisis.
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“Every day, millions of American taxpayer dollars are spent on costs directly associated with illegal immigration and the unprecedented crisis at the Southwest border sparked by … Mayorkas' policies,” says the report.
“Mass illegal immigration, accelerated by Mayorkas' open-borders policies, now represents a massive cost to the federal government and state governments alike, as well as the pocketbooks of private citizens and businesses.”
US border agents have made more than 5 million arrests since Biden took office in 2021.
According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the Lone Star state has bused over 63,800 migrants to so-called sanctuary cities across the country.
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Migrants crossing the US borderREUTERSHe wrote: “Over 12,500 to DC. Over 23,100 to NYC. Over 18,400 to Chicago. Over 3,200 to Philadelphia. Over 6,100 to Denver. Over 1,100 to LA”
Michael Castejon, 39, revealed he, his wife and teenage stepdaughter spent five months sleeping either in a police precinct or a crowded city shelter in Chicago.
He was unable to secure a job permit or enrol his daughter at a school in the Windy City.
Protest against migrants in New YorkReuters“The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore,” Castejon told The Chicago Tribune.
“There’s nothing here for us … We just want to be home.”
He added: “If we’re going to be sleeping in the streets here, we’d rather be sleeping in the streets over there.”