{"id":25226,"date":"2021-11-19T12:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25226"},"modified":"2021-11-19T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:16:22","slug":"cbo-score-build-back-better-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/11\/19\/cbo-score-build-back-better-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"CBO Says Build Back Better Act\u2019s Immigration Provisions Will Raise the Deficit by $115.1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report<\/a> finding that the immigration provisions in the Democrats\u2019 Build Back Better (BBB) Act (H.R. 5376<\/a>) would add $115.1 billion to the deficit of the United States over the next ten years. This goes well beyond the House Democrats\u2019 $107.5 billion allocated for the BBB Act\u2019s Judiciary components, which includes the immigration amnesty for 7 million illegal aliens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House passed the FAIR-opposed bill by a vote of 220-213. Only a single Democrat \u2013 Rep. Jared Golden (Maine) \u2013 voted against the $1.75 trillion tax and spend package which included the largest amnesty in American history. FAIR\u2019s analysis of the bill\u2019s immigration provisions is available here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill\u2019s financial and societal cost is\nstaggering. The CBO\u2019s estimate runs only for ten years even though the\nimmigration provisions will, in all likelihood, extend beyond that time period.\nThat is because it is unlikely that a future Congress in 2031 will have the\npolitical courage to strip the parole protections from illegal aliens\nbenefiting from this amnesty. Instead, they\u2019ll likely extend the protections and\nkeep them in place, which is what presidents and Congresses have done with\nother \u201ctemporary\u201d immigration policies such Temporary Protected Status (TPS),\nDeferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and the Optional Practical\nTraining (OPT) program within the F-1 visa. Far-left Democrats know that it\nwill be politically difficult to strip these amnesty protections in the future.\nThere is nothing more permanent than a \u201ctemporary\u201d immigration solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the BBB Act, more than 7 million illegal aliens receive work authorization and can access certain welfare programs. This will lead to staggering costs on programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Indeed, Jason Richwine of the Center for Immigration Studies estimates<\/a> that this amnesty will cost well over $1 trillion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richwine writes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because most of the entitlement costs\nassociated with amnesty would occur outside the typical 10-year budget window\nof the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), it is imperative that Congress ask\nthe CBO to do a special analysis of long-term entitlement costs when it scores\nthe amnesty provisions of this reconciliation bill. Otherwise, the most\nsignificant costs of the amnesty will be hidden.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The potential effects of the BBB Act are profound. Over 7 million illegal aliens will receive an amnesty in the form of administrative parole, which shields them from deportation and allows them to legally work in the United States. The bill \u201crecaptures\u201d unused green cards from past years in order to dole them out to job-destroying H-1B workers from India and China working for Big Tech corporations. And now, because of the CBO\u2019s analysis, we know that this bill will add a staggering amount of money to the deficit and put unnecessary burdens on social welfare programs like Medicare and Social Security. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report finding that the immigration provisions in the Democrats\u2019 Build Back Better (BBB) Act (H.R. 5376) would add $115.1 billion to the deficit of the United States over the next ten years. This goes well beyond the House Democrats\u2019 $107.5 billion allocated for the BBB Act\u2019s Judiciary<\/p>\n

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