Illegal Immigration: Aliens Use Fraud and Incompetence To Fleece Taxpayers

Despite democratic protestations, illegal aliens are costing the US taxpayer enormous sums of money, billions of bucks. In just one year we could afford to build a bulky, beautiful barrier with the big bucks that are being blown because of banned bustle across our borders. In fact, the funds spent to support these criminals by just two states alone, California and New York, would provide enough funding ($30+ billion) to build TWO walls across our southern border.

Federal Spending

The approximately $46 billion in federal expenditures attributable to illegal aliens is staggering. Assuming an illegal alien population of approximately 12.5 million illegal aliens and 4.2 million U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, that amounts to roughly $2,746 per illegal alien, per year. For the sake of comparison, the average American college student receives only $4,800 in federal student loans each year.

Educational Expenditures .......$1,691,034,040 

Medical Expenditures ............$17,135,594,572 

Law Enforcement .................$13,148,609,360 

Welfare Programs ...................$5,849,236,360 

General Expenditures ..............$8,046,000,000 

Total ...................................... $45,870,474,332 

The DHS compiled a report on on the use of public services by immigrants and they found that more than 25% of immigrants use extensive public benefits, which is a higher rate than native-born U.S. population. Source

Welfare fraud for aliens is rampant at the state level.

Federal USDA audits of just five states (Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington and Nebraska) found that states ignore mandated application safeguards. Imprisoned and dead aliens are still being given benefits. The safeguards are:

• Prisoner Verification System (7 CFR §272.13) 
• Deceased Matching System (7 CFR §272.14) 
• Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (7 CFR §272.11)

Source: here and here.