MYTH #4: “Immigrants increase the budget deficit and government debt.”
FACT: Immigrants in the United States have about a net zero effect on government budgets — they pay about as much in taxes as they consume in benefits.
Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute offers nonpartisan facts in response to common myths about immigration
www.carnegie.org
Illegal and Legal. Two distinct and different things.
There are a reported 500,000 or so illegal immigrants in North Carolina. They use our schools, roads, medical facilities, services, require law enforcement and the court system to be used, etc.
Illegal immigrants added over 120,000 students to our school system. They means English as Second Language classes be added. Interpreters be added. School lunch program(free and reduced to be paid for) and more square footage to be added along with teachers.
To put the school situation in perspective, the State of WV has about 245,000 students(2023). So, in NC alone we have half the WV student population being added that are illegal. Who pays for that? The taxpayers of the state and federal system do. Me and You. We are one state.
You have to look at illegal and legal. While they do work much of it is not reported or on the black market so to speak and they are not contributing to taxes as the legal residents are.
From the Carolina Journal:
Illegal immigration costs North Carolina taxpayers $3.14 billion or $779 per household annually.
- Illegal immigrant households added 122,218 students to local schools.
- The average cost to North Carolinians is $4,781 per illegal alien.
- Taxpayers are supporting education costs of $1.47 billion, police, legal, and corrections costs of $461.1 million, as well as healthcare, public assistance, and general government services expenses.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)
annual report, nearly half of the 170,590 illegal immigrants arrested in the US in 2023 had multiple criminal charges and convictions.
The US Senate is preparing to consider impeaching Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas. A new study shows the costly impact of illegal immigration on NC.
www.carolinajournal.com
You are spouting the lefts talking points and putting lipstick on a pig.