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Recent study finds mass deportations would actually help US deficit

September 21, 2024 | | Print Article

A Manhattan Institute study has found that the mass deportation of unskilled criminal aliens would greatly reduce America’s national deficit.

Researcher Daniel Di Martino based this finding on how much criminal aliens currently cost the American taxpayer.

“[N]ew illegal border crossers (who tend to be young) impose an average net cost of $130,000 to U.S. taxpayers over their lifetime, because nearly 90% of them lack college education,” he explained for Fox News.

“Illegal immigrants who have already been in the U.S. for a while are older, on average, and are expected to impose a net cost of $196,000 on taxpayers,” he added.

Were these new and older criminal aliens removed, their net cost to taxpaying U.S. citizens would, of course, drop to zero.

If, on the other hand, things remained the same, then Di Martino’s research showed U.S. taxpayers would spend over $1.1 trillion over the next 70 years.

In his Fox News report, Di Martino did admit that the ostensibly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) views things differently and has claimed that continued illegal migration through 2026 would reduce the budget deficit by $900 billion over 10 years.

However, Di Martino went on to note that the CBO’s claim is flawed.

“The CBO’s analysis fails to consider immigrants’ total entitlement and healthcare costs because it limits its analysis to the next 10 years, excluding retirement; it also excludes critical factors such as the costs of public services including roads, public safety, and education,” he noted.

“The immigration status quo is a threat to America’s national interest. Most recent immigrants have entered unvetted and illegally and are likely to cost taxpayers trillions of dollars in the long run. On the other hand, young and highly educated applicants who apply legally and have highly paid job offers are forced to wait for years for green cards and visas, and many are eventually turned away,” he added.

Speaking of legal immigrants, Di Martino made a point to note that they — unlike their illegal peers — do help reduce the deficit when they’re highly skilled and well-educated.

“My research shows that rather than harm the economy, the average new college-educated immigrant would reduce the budget deficit by over $300,000 over their lifetime,” he wrote for Fox News.

“The group causing the most positive impact on the federal budget is immigrants who, like me, arrived in their late teens or early twenties to attend college in America and stayed for a graduate degree. We reduce the budget deficit by more than $1 million over our lifetimes, as we tend to earn the most income, work for more years but not receive any public education here, and rely less on government benefits<“he added.

All this leads to his key recommendation, which is that the federal government become far more selective about who it allows into the U.S.

“My research shows that an open border will bankrupt America, but a selective immigration policy could help the United States afford the welfare state it already has,” he explained.

Especially if it was combined with mass deportation.

“Were a mass deportation policy combined with legalization of college-educated Dreamers, the U.S. could potentially reduce the federal debt by $1.9 trillion — nearly doubling its savings,” he wrote.

These findings come as Vice President Kamala Harris and her corporate media propagandist allies continue to try to fear-monger over former President Donald Trump’s plans to mass deport criminal aliens.

The problem for Harris is that a majority of Americans support the former president’s plans, according to a new poll.

“Fifty-four percent of respondents said they ‘strongly’ or ‘somewhat support’ the policy, including 86% of Republicans, 58% of independents, and 25% of Democrats,” Scripps News reported Wednesday, citing a new Scripps News/Ipsos survey.

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