“You cannot have an open border immigration policy if you’ve got a welfare state. If you invite people across the border and give them all the goodies as soon as they arrive, you’re encouraging more people to arrive and it becomes extremely expensive. And that cuts down on the approval for immigration,” said Varney.
The president’s immigration amnesty will cost $2 trillion – about $40 billion a year – over the next 50 years, the Heritage Foundation projects.
The total equates to a $22,000 tax on every American who has a four-year college degree, 30 cents extra for every gallon of gas, or $10 a month tacked onto every cell phone bill.
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The $2 trillion cost is driven by the federal government’s support for all poor people, says Robert Rector, a budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Rector explained that, on average, the illegal immigrants benefiting from the amnesty have a 10th grade education.
That low education ensures they can’t earn enough money, or pay enough taxes, to pay for the many benefits they’ll get if they progress from temporary residents to legal residents and then to citizens, Rector said.
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