Robert Rector: Amnestied Illegal Immigrants to Cost Taxpayers $2 Trillion Over Their Lifetime


Virtual none of the illegal aliens that Obama praises are educated self reliant people — those come in legally. So we are left with an influk of underclass people and their dependents. Their status may not be of their making but that is a mute point since they are going to be added to the dependent roles here. So as this post states there will be a stiff price for the middle class to absorb to support then — think of them as becoming a member of your family for where you pay directly or though taxes — you will end up with less of your pay check than you had before.

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The undocumented immigrants granted amnesty by President Barack Obama’s executive orders will likely cost taxpayers $2 trillion, according to Heritage Foundation poverty  expert Robert Rector.

“The net cost — which is total benefits minus total benefits paid in — of the amnesty recipients I estimate will be around $2 trillion over the course of their lifetime,” Rector explained in an interview with Breitbart News Monday. He added that the calculation is based on the assumption that 4 million undocumented immigrants will participate and they will live, on average, 50 years.

According to Rector — who has published extensively on welfare, poverty, and immigration — the cost has two components: The first is the potential to access Social Security and Medicare, given amnestied undocumented immigrants’ ability to obtain work permits and Social Security Numbers.

“What [Obama] is doing is he is putting these 4 million people — who on average have…

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