Report: The U.S. Spent $150 BILLION Supporting Illegal Aliens in 2023 Alone

Brittany M. Hughes | October 25, 2024
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The United States spent - get ready for this, 'cause it’s gonna make your coffee taste bad - a whopping $150 BILLION in support for illegal aliens in 2023 alone, according to a new analysis.

That’s billion, with a “b.”

To put it into perspective, $150 billion is enough to keep 16 million low-income people on Medicaid at a the current average of about $9,000 per person, per year. Assuming the average school lunch costs about $4 a day, $150 billion is enough to pay for every American public school student's lunch every single school day - for four years. 

Put another way, a Scioto analysis puts the high-end estimated cost of housing every single homeless person in America at about $30 billion per year, meaning that our current spending in illegal alien support could be used to end U.S. homelessness five times over.

And $150 billion is also the entire GDP of Ukraine.

According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), $67 billion of that $150 billion came from the federal government, while the rest - or nearly two-thirds - was born by state and local governments, massively straining city services and programs meant for - and funded by - American citizens, including police departments and emergency response.

That $150 billion total included the $640 million provided by the now-cash-strapped Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), of which $81 million was sent to New York City, $41 million went to El Paso County in Texas, and another $40 million Pima County, Arizona. Chicago, Denver, and LA got $26 million, $23 million, and $22 million, respectively.

Related: Biden-Harris Admin. ‘Weaponizing’ Judges, DOJ to Protect Illegal Aliens, Judiciary Cmte. Report Warns

The New York Post notes that many cities and locales that have ponied up the cash to support the illegal aliens who’ve flooded into their borders have been forced to make budget cuts to other city services to find the money for it.

The Denver City Council, for instance, has slashed $45 million from its budget - including $8.4m from it Police Department and $2.5m from the Fire Department - to make up just half of the $90 million they spent on the migrant crisis in 2023.

That same year, NYC found the $2.3 billion they spent in migrant support by cutting other city agencies by 5%. Meanwhile, Portland, Maine raised property taxes by nearly 5% to help pay for illegal alien support services, which the city estimated would cost around $9 million.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration is on track to record some 10 million encounters at the Southwest U.S. border since Biden took office in January of 2021. More than 3 million of those have been released into the United States to await immigration hearings - if they're scheduled for one at all, and, assuming they are, if they actually show up. At least 1.7 million more known "got-aways" have entered the U.S. between ports of entry but were not apprehended by Border Patrol.

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