Depending on the percentage of illegal immigrants in your area, you could be paying more than $1,117 extra in taxes. With $1,117 being the average per household in the United States, $84 billion the average cost at the state and local government level, and billions of dollars spent by the federal government, anyone can see that this is too much money being spent on illegal immigrants.
Currently, the US deficit is around $18 trillion dollars, and is only projected to increase in the coming years. This weighs heavily on not only the shoulders of the US government but also its people to pull the country out of crippling debt. Cutbacks seem to be few and far between, as the government physically needs to support the states needs. One proposed cutback, however, may seem quite simple.
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The amount of money spent on illegal immigrants totals about $113 billion dollars annually for the United States, including local, state, and federal level.
$113 billion = .11 trillion, or about 10% of a trillion. Ten years could knock off one of those trillions, theoretically. Obviously this is an unrealistic projection, as there is no way that the funding could automatically cut off. However, it may give some perspective on what contributes to the national debt.
America is a haven for immigrants and always has been. This is part of what makes the country a beautiful, free place to live in. There are real consequences, however, of allowing undocumented immigrants to reside in the United States. The monetary aspect, for one, can be taking away from the welfare of those who have been born in the US and are citizens.
Calls to raise the minimum wage are simply incongruous with the belief that illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay in the United States. Taxpayers of the United States need to prioritize where they would like their money to go, and vote that way. With the official United States poverty rate still laying at 45.3 million people living below the poverty line, it may be wiser to rethink about where taxpayer money is going towards.
Being anti-illegal immigration is not equivalent to being anti-government assistance.I would rather see my taxpayer money going towards infrastructure, education, a higher minimum wage, and social programs for those who are trying to better themselves, but may have not had the opportunity. Money, as they say, does not grow on trees, and you need to prioritize whose welfare you're paying for.
http://www.fairus.org/publications/the-fiscal-burd...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikepatton/2015/04/24/...
https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/over...
