Illegal Immigration: It's the next nail in America's coffin
May 15, 2023
According to the NY Times the population of the planet was 3.6 billion (3.6B) in 1970. Over the last 53 years that number has more than doubled to just over 8 billion.
If we were to add together the populations of China, Russia, India, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Central America, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and a large part of the African Continent, it would not be a stretch to say that half the world’s population is either politically oppressed or struggling to feed their families. That’s roughly 4 billion (4B) people. It would appear that many of these people have decided to come to the US and live off the American taxpayer. Our southern border has become a joke, an even bigger joke than the idiot who currently occupies the White House.
I recently watched a video of an interview conducted by Congressman Barry Moore of Alabama. During the interview Congressman Moore questioned Sheriff Wilmot of Yuma County Arizona and a Mr Lyons who I believe was an immigration official. The Congressman was asking both of these men questions regarding the hordes of illegal immigrants that are crossing over our southern border almost unimpeded.
Most of these people are paying the cartels thousands of dollars to get them across the border into the US. One of the questions asked by the congressman was how much the cartels were charging for this service. The answer was between $8000 and $10,000 per person. A specific example given by Mr. Lyons was about a group of Chinese immigrants who paid as much as $80,000 per person to get across. I wonder how long it took them to save up $80,000?
Once here these immigrants turn themselves in to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and receive a Notice to Appear ticket (NTA). Once this NTA is received these illegals are entitled to as much as $800 per month in benefits plus free healthcare courtesy of YOU, the American taxpayer.
These benefits will go on continuously until their court date with an immigration judge. To show you just how ludicrous this entire process is, this court date will most likely be 4 or 5 years away. The US government will be paying these people benefits for that entire time. Incidentally, according to Mr. Lyons, 95% of these so-called asylum seekers fail to show up for their court date. Are the people who are running this country really this stupid? The obvious answer is a resounding YES. If this stupidity doesn’t upset you, it should because you’re paying for this.
To summarize the last two paragraphs, our president, who is supposed to be working in the best interest of “We the People” has invited these illegal immigrants from all over the world to come to America and realize the American Dream and he is paying them with our tax dollars to do just that.
I have to question if these government employees that are being paid by the US taxpayer are really working in the best interest of the citizens of the US? They really don’t seem to be. In addition to wasting billions of taxpayer dollars they are also jeopardizing national security as well?
My next question is how many of the 4B people on this planet that are either politically oppressed or unable to feed their families will wind up here in the coming years.
I ask this question because as I have written previously in this blog this country is almost $32T in debt with interest expense on that debt scheduled to meet or exceed $1T dollars per year by the end of this decade if not sooner. If that doesn’t scare you maybe this will : It will only get worse from here.
According to an article published by The Immigration Center there are 44M illegal immigrants currently living in the US as of April 2023. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you would know that these illegal immigrants continue to enter our country by the thousands everyday. This is not hyperbole. It’s all over the news everyday. There are videos showing this happening in real time. And still it goes on unimpeded.
The latest information I have been able to find regarding the cost of this invasion to the American taxpayer is from an organization called The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). According to FAIR the total net cost of illegal immigration to federal, state, and local governments is $150.7B per year. This number is net of any taxes paid into the three levels of government by illegal immigrants.
I stated above that once an illegal is given an NTA he is entitled to benefits of up to $800 per month and free medical care. There are also costs incurred by state and local governments such as educating the children of illegals. These costs alone are estimated to range between $8K and $14K per student, per year depending on the school district. These costs are included in the $150.7B mentioned above.
It would seem to me that it is almost impossible for anyone to survive here in the US on the meager sum of $800 per month. So how does an illegal immigrant, especially one with a family, survive here in the US on $800 per month.? I’m sure that there is some additional assistance given to them by state and local governments. But even with assistance at the state and local level, I still find it difficult to believe that these benefits are sufficient for people to live here in the US.
Since most illegals are not allowed to obtain a social security number and are therefore not allowed to work legally in the US, the only other alternative is that many of these people are working for someone who is paying them “under the table.” So not only are these illegals receiving free benefits from the American taxpayer, they are also working “under the table” and not paying any state or federal income tax. As an American citizen who pays his taxes I find this offensive.
I mentioned earlier that I had estimated that half the world’s population, or roughly 4B people, are either politically oppressed or struggling to provide for their families. Suppose that over the next 10 years 100M of those people decide to invade our country and partake of our generosty.
It is currently costing the US taxpayers $150B per year to support these gate crashers. If an additional 100M illegals enter our country that cost would more than triple. We have a group of roughly 4B people who “want a better life,” so that number of 100M could well be underestimated.
It doesn’t take a PhD in Economics to figure out that if this tidal wave of humanity continues we may find that there are more people living off the government dole than are paying taxes. When that point is reached it’s only a matter of time until the US fails financially.
In addition to the enormous financial burden put on the US taxpayer by this uncontrolled migration into our country, there is also the issue of having all these illegals taking up residence here in the US. Put simply, it’s a matter of numbers. The longer this goes on the sooner that native born Americans will become a minority in their own country. Think of what the consequences of that would be for your grandchildren. This would be the brave new world that America would become.
It is my belief that many of these new arrivals would migrate to the major cities of the US. The already overcrowded schools would become more so. Real estate taxes which are already high would become even more burdensome. The streets would be wall to wall people and crime which is already on the upswing would sky rocket. I’m sorry, but I don’t see an upside to this madness.
Oh, I almost forgot. There’s more good news. There’s a civil war happening right now, as I type, in the country of Sudan. The citizens of that country are fleeing by the thousands. Guess where they all want to go. You guessed it. They all want to come to the “Good Ole US of A”. We’ll probably let them in too along with the millions of other “asylum seekers.”
Of the 4B unhappy people world wide, how many of them will show up on our doorstep? The answer is unknown, but make no mistake: Shithole status is incoming. Prepare yourself.
The US is now just under $33T in debt. Our yearly deficits are growing as is our national debt. As our debt increases so does the interest on that debt. It is projected that interest expense on this debt will grow to over $1T by the end of this decade if not sooner. That is more than we spend on our entire defense budget every year. Here is the really stupid part. The money to pay this interest expense will also need to be borrowed which will further add to our yearly deficits and also to our national debt. It just keeps getting worse.
Putting politics and other considerations aside, does anyone think that it’s prudent for our government to continue spending money we don’t have, squandering the resources we do have, spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year on interest, and accumulating massive amounts of debt that we will never be able to pay off? The answer is: No, it’s not prudent. It’s downright stupid. Our grandchildren will be the ones who will pay for our wasteful spending and self indulgence. That will be our legacy to them.