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A RAND study concluded that the total federal cost of providing medical expenses for the 78% illegal immigrants without health insurance coverage was $1.1 billion, with immigrants paying $321 million of health care costs out-of-pocket. The study found that illegal immigrants tend to visit physicians less frequently than U.S. citizens because ...
In Texas alone, the Texas government estimated that illegal immigrants in Texas added around $18 billion to the GDP of the state and $1.5 billion in total revenue while only costing the state less ...
The government cost-cutting initiative led by Elon Musk said that illegal immigration cost U.S. taxpayers $150 billion in 2023, based on data from the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
There is no empirical evidence that either legal or illegal immigration increases crime in the United States. [101] [102] In fact, a majority of studies in the U.S. have found lower crime rates among immigrants than among non-immigrants, and that higher concentrations of immigrants are associated with lower crime rates.
A separate analysis from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) pegged the net annual cost at $150.7 billion, Newsweek reported. That comes to about $440 a year per American citizen.
In 1990 the U.S. Congress appointed a bipartisan Commission on Immigration Reform to review the nation's policies and laws and to recommend changes. [6] In turn, the commission in 1995 asked the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to convene a panel of experts to assess the demographic, economic, and fiscal consequences of immigration.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks to reduce overall immigration, estimated that 16.8 million “illegal aliens” were living in the U.S. as of June 2023.
CPS data also shows that second-generation immigrants completed more schooling than both foreign-born immigrants and non-immigrant US-born individuals. In international research on the phenomenon, Europe's SHARE data demonstrated no evidence of a paradox, with immigrants having poorer health outcomes than native Europeans. [53]