After spending a lifetime hearing from Open Borders types that immigration is an unmixed financial boost to this country it was refreshing to see the Congressional Budget Office agree that the proposed amnesty in the reconciliation bill, passed by the House on November 19, will cost taxpayers $133 billion.
That amount of spending appears on the front page of the New York Times on November 20, above the fold and in bold-face type.
If you opened the paper you would learn that this is the gross expenditure, and that the bill will also cause the payment of $22 billion in visa fees, so that the net cost of the amnesty will be lower, or about $111 billion, still a thunderous figure.
The number is more prominent in the print version than in the electronic one.
Five-year grants of deportation protection and work permits for most undocumented who entered the U.S. before Jan.1, 2011.
As my colleague Jason Richwine has reported, the cost would be much higher if the long-term expenses to the Medicare and the Social Security program were added to the total, as they should be.
Will the amnesty remain in the huge reconciliation bill after the Senate's Parliamentarian sees it? Will the bill itself pass in its present form, including amnesty? Will the Senate pass a different version of the bill, leading to still more negotiations with the House?
https://cis.org/North/Refreshing-CBO-Admits-Amnesty-Will-Cost-100-BillionPlus
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