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(02-27-2020, 05:19 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: There are approximately 3.7 million unlawful immigrant households in the U.S. These households impose a net fiscal burden of around $54.5 billion per year.

OK, that's hard to dismiss. The one thing I'd mention is that these costs mainly seem to stem from the fact that illegal immigrants are low-income. Hence roughly the same number of cost could be attributed to an equal number of low-income US citizens.

I wonder if there would be significantly less low-income households if you put illegal immigrants out of the equation. If there wouldn't be (for example because those low-income jobs would be filled by an increased number of legal immigrants, out of necessity), then costs are not really reduced and this calculation would be misleading in that regard.

But that is not meant to dismiss the point. From far away, I'd agree that the US has many illegal residents and this is probably problematic.