The Welfare Cost of Refugees

Whether it is motivated by a conscious desire to displace the American population with the peoples of the Third World (as explicitly expressed, for example, by Joe Biden) or by well-meaning do-gooder foolishness, importing refugees is not cheap. A recent study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform found the following:

• The cost per refugee to American taxpayers just under $79,600 every year in the first five years after a refugee is resettled in the U.S.;

• In 2016, the State Department spent nearly $545 million to process and resettle refugees, including $140,389,177 on transportation costs;

• Of the $1.8 billion in resettlement costs, $867 billion was spent on welfare alone;

• In their first five years, approximately 54 percent of all refugees will hold jobs that pay less than $11 an hour;

• $71 million will be spent to educate refugees and asylum-seekers, a majority of which will be paid by state and local governments.

• Over five years, an estimated 15.7 percent of all refugees will need housing assistance, which is roughly $7,600 per household in 2014 dollars.

That isn’t even counting national security and law enforcement costs, which have the potential to go through the ceiling due to the Muslim terrorism that is inevitably imported along with the refugees. Good thing taxpayers have plenty of money and don’t mind getting murdered for the greater glory of multiculturalism.

On a tip from Bodhisattva.