451 BILLION DOLLARS
Medicare & Medicaid Services show that total Medicaid costs for “emergency services for undocumented aliens” in Fiscal Year (FY)21 alone exceeded $7 billion, while in FY22, these costs were more than $5.4 billion.
FAIR estimates police expenditures associated with illegal aliens costs states around $8.95 billion, with judicial costs around $3.72 billion and prison costs around $6.2 billion, for a total of approximately $19 billion. By comparison, FAIR’s 2017 report estimated these costs totaled around $10.5 billion.
Texas is projected to spend more than $9 billion by the end of 2024 to secure its border.
FAIR estimates that at least 3.8 million illegal aliens qualify as LEP students (Limited English Proficiency), costing taxpayers nearly $59 billion, while those children of illegal aliens not classified as LEP students cost another $16.9 billion, with the states shouldering the vast bulk of this burden. LEP students also cost around 15 percent more to educate than non-LEP students.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly known as “food stamps
assuming just over two million children of illegal aliens were eligible for SNAP, the total cost in FY22 was around $5.8 billion.
The Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program provides federal grants to states for low-income, pregnant, and breastfeeding mothers, as well as infants and children up to age five who may be at risk of receiving inadequate nutrition
6.7 million illegal alien households amounts to more than $1.3 billion.
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), another taxpayer-funded benefit available to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens and some illegal alien children costs the federal government an estimated $911 million, and the states another $171 million.
New York has penned more than $10 million in contracts to clean the laundry of illegal aliens arriving in the city.
It costs more than $9.8 million per day to provide shelter, food, medical care, and social services to an illegal alien family unit.
In August 2023, officials expanded a shelter at Randall Island to house 3,000 illegal aliens that will cost New Yorkers at least $20 million per month.
California spent $500,000 per month on housing illegal aliens in just two hotels near the Southwest border.
Chicago is spending more than $20 million per month to “house and support” illegal aliens, $200 million of the city’s anticipated $538 million budget deficit in 2024
Illinois as a whole has spent more than $350 million responding to crisis,
In November 2022, Massachusetts legislature spent $130 million in additional funding to help house illegal aliens
Denver city officials estimated they would spend $20 million just from January-June 2023 to house illegal aliens
Through May 2023, Washington, D.C. had spent $15.1 million to house, feed, and support illegal aliens with local hotels used to house them. Those costs were expected to rise to $52.5 million by October 2023.
By September-October 2022, the city of El Paso, Texas, was spending $250,000- 300,000 per day to handle the historic flow of illegal aliens. Over the course of a year, that would represent approximately $90 million
In the State of Maine According to city officials, it will cost Portland nearly $2 million to rent hotel space for incoming aliens
From January-September 2021, the Biden administration spent at least $340 million transporting illegal aliens into the interior.
Texas had to pay more than $75 million to bus illegal aliens out of the state.
In Arizona, each bus cost roughly $83,000, bringing the total to around $3.5 million.
State lawmakers allocated $12 million to the Florida Department of Transportation
To transport alien family units and UACs
By September 2023, DHS had incurred around $660 million in obligated costs for these services.
Phase4Report.pdf (house.gov)