Taxpayers spent $150 billion on government services and support for the 20 million illegal immigrants in the United States, with most of the cost going to state and local governments, according to a new study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
These costs have been growing since 2017, when the price for illegal immigration was at about $116 billion, but the cost to U.S. taxpayers rose by $35 billion in five years, the New York Post reported Thursday.
And the costs will keep growing as the numbers increase of people entering the country illegally, FAIR spokesperson Ira Mehlman says.
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