Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously assailed open-border immigration policies, declaring, “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two decades later, the Congressional Budget Office<\/a> confirmed Friedman\u2019s admonition by putting a multibillion-dollar price tag on the latest amnesty legislation, the so-called DREAM Act.<\/p>\n S. 1615<\/a> would expand America\u2019s welfare state by making up to 2 million deportable aliens eligible for a host of federal benefits — health insurance subsidies, child tax credits, Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (a.k.a. food stamps) and higher education assistance, among others.<\/p>\n CBO estimates the bill, introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., would increase the federal budget deficit by $26 billion over the next decade.<\/p>\n The DREAM Act doubles down on a U.S. immigration system that\u2019s out of control, literally. President Donald Trump summed up the problem over the weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cOur current immigration system helps special interests, but hurts American workers, taxpayers and national security,\u201d Trump said in his weekly radio address<\/a>.<\/p>\n