{"id":15616,"date":"2017-11-09T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15616"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:32:08","slug":"europe-demonstrates-uncontrolled-mass-migration-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2017\/11\/09\/europe-demonstrates-uncontrolled-mass-migration-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"As Europe Demonstrates, Uncontrolled Mass Migration Is Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s an ongoing debate about how much mass migration costs the United States<\/a>. The open-borders lobby claims that all migrants are a net economic boon. Proponents of this position typically rely on complex economic concepts \u2013 like \u201cgross domestic product\u201d and \u201cpublic goods\u201d \u2013 to show that immigrants inject wealth into U.S. communities.<\/p>\n

Mathematically, however, the case advanced by the economic obfuscators simply doesn\u2019t add up<\/a>. Most illegal aliens pay few, if any, taxes. And the low-skilled legal immigrants that the U.S. is currently attracting typically earn low wages. Therefore they pay low taxes.\u00a0 Meanwhile, both groups consume government services at a much higher rate than U.S. citizens. If you receive benefits but don\u2019t pay for them, someone else has to make up the difference. In this case, it\u2019s the American public.<\/p>\n

And, in many cases, immigrants tend to drive up the price of delivering those services. The extra costs associated with educating limited English proficiency students in public schools<\/a> and vetting immigrants<\/a> from developing countries are good examples.<\/p>\n

For anyone who has any doubt about the costs associated with unchecked mass migration \u2013Europe provides an instructive case study. The migrant crisis that began in 2015 has resulted in the sudden, mass infusion of at least 1.2 million individuals into European countries.<\/p>\n

As Giulio Meotti of the Gatestone Institute<\/a> reports, the recent arrival in Europe of hordes of Middle Eastern migrants is straining national treasuries to the breaking point:<\/p>\n