The real cost of illegal immigration

1. Although current federal policy prohibits federal tax funding of health care to unauthorized immigrants through Medicaid or Obamacare, ;rough estimates suggest that the nation's 3.9 million uninsured immigrants who are unauthorized likely receive about $4.6 billion in health services paid for by federal taxes, $2.8 billion in health services financed by state and local taxpayers and another $3 billion bankrolled through cost-shifting, i.e. higher payments by insured patients to cover hospital uncompensated care losses, and roughly $1.5 billion in physician charity care, Mr.
2. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimated it cost public schools $59.8 billion to educate the children of illegal immigrants, and almost the entirety of this cost, 98.9 percent, is borne by taxpayers at the local and state level, through property taxes, according to a 2016 study.
3. At the time, the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were driving increased funding programs for students with Limited English Proficiency (LEP)  causing a major drain on school budgets.

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