The Department of Government Efficiency this week compared that cost to other historic milestones and projects, highlighting the staggering cost of the ongoing immigration crisis for the Biden administration.
Based on data collected by Federation for American Immigration Reforman advisory committee to be chaired by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, reported that U.S. taxpayers spent $150.7 billion in 2023 to address the immigration crisis.
“The scale of spending on illegal immigration is mind-boggling!”
FAIR amounted to the sum of federal, state, and local costs minus taxes from illegal aliens.
The organization estimates the total cost to be $1,156 per year. per taxpayer.
“In 2017, FAIR estimated the net cost of illegal immigration to be approximately $116 billion,” the group writes. “This means that in just five years, the cost of illegal immigration has increased by nearly $35 billion. This rapid increase is a result of the ongoing border crisis and lack of effective immigration enforcement. The section further analyzes and explains these numbers at the federal, state, and local levels.
New York City taxpayers have already spent $6.4 billion supporting the 200,000 immigrants who have entered New York City since the immigration crisis began. From December 2022, denver Spent $356 million to provide housing, food, and other services to illegal immigrants.
DOGE highlighted FAIR's findings in a post about X on Monday.
The ministry sought to calculate the total amount “against other costs” after adjusting for inflation. World War I cost $334 billion, the Apollo Space Program cost $257 billion, the Manhattan Project cost $30 billion, the Panama Canal cost $15.2 billion, and the Hoover Dam cost $1 billion. Masu.
Musk responded to DOGE's post: write“The scale of spending on illegal immigration is mind-boggling!”
X users mocked Democrats who argued that it would be too expensive to deport illegal immigrants and complete a border wall.
One user responded to DOGE's post by asking, “How much does it cost to keep illegal aliens out?”
Another user wrote: “Why not deport them?”
Over the past few weeks, DOGE has uncovered numerous examples of wasteful government spending, including costs related to vacant buildings due to remote work policies.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who will lead the nascent Senate DOGE caucus, sent a letter to Mr. Musk and Mr. Ramaswamy last week outlining ways the department can reduce $2 trillion in government waste. did. Her first proposal was to cut spending on unused or mostly empty buildings, calling it President Joe Biden's “billion-dollar thug.”
DOGE noted Wednesday that the Social Security Administration approved an agreement with the American Federation of Public Employees that will allow 42,000 employees to work remotely through 2029. An SSA spokesperson confirmed the work-from-home agreement. bloomberg. AFGE claimed that it would “secure staffing levels by preventing an increase in the turnover rate.”
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