Ann Coulter: Surprise! That 'Cheap' Immigrant Labor Costs Us A Lot

by Ann Coulter
The Hill
Jun. 23, 2019

We could pay for every idiotic boondoggle proposed by the 300 Democratic presidential candidates if the current president would simply keep his central campaign promise to build a border wall and deport illegal aliens. (Back off -- "illegal alien" is the term used in federal law.)

A 2017 study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that illegal aliens cost the American taxpayer -- on net -- $116 billion a year.

That's pretty high, but the actual number is more likely triple that.

Straight out of the chute, FAIR assumes that there are only 12.5 million illegal immigrants in the country, approximately the same number we've been told for the last 15 years as we impotently watched hundreds of thousands more stream across our border, year after year after year.

The 12 million figure is based on the self-reports of illegal aliens to U.S. census questionnaires. (Hello! I'm from the federal government. Did you break the law to enter our country? Now tell the truth! We have no way of knowing the answer, and if you say yes, you could be subjecting yourself to immediate deportation.)

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