Heritage has released a 102-page comprehensive study in the fiscal cost of illegal immigration and amnesty to the U.S. taxpayer and the result is $6.3 trillion.
The study will be embedded below the post.
The costs to taxpayers from the Heritage article summarizing the full report:
Over a lifetime, the former unlawful immigrants together would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services and pay $3.1 trillion in taxes. They would generate a lifetime fiscal deficit (total benefits minus total taxes) of $6.3 trillion. (All figures are in constant 2010 dollars.) This should be considered a minimum estimate. It probably understates real future costs because it undercounts the number of unlawful immigrants and dependents who will actually receive amnesty and underestimates significantly the future growth in welfare and medical benefits.
