Democrats always like to complain about things, like the cost of the border wall. Yet, they don’t seem to have any issue with Obama’s refugee program that will end up costing American taxpayers at least $4.1 billion this year alone. Thanks a lot Barry!
| Obama refugee program will cost taxpayers $4.1 BILLION this year |
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American taxpayers are projected to spend more than $4.1 billion in 2017 to support the 519,018 refugees that’ve been dragged into the United States by the Obama Administration since October 2009.
From Breitbart
To put that very large number in context, $4.1 billion can buy 10,677 new homes for $384,000 each, which is the average price of a new home sold in the United States in December 2016. Or it could buy 170,124 new autos for $24,100 each, which is the manufacturer’s suggested retail price for a 2017 Chevrolet Malibu.
Even if the Trump administration were to entirely shut down the flow of refugees into the United States in FY 2018 and beyond, the refugees who have already arrived in the country will cost at least another $3.5 billion in 2018, and about $2 billion to $3 billion annually thereafter until FY 2022 and beyond.
The annual $4.1 billion cost of these refugees is about eight percent of “the total annual fiscal impact of first generation [immigrants to the United States] and their dependents, averaged across 2011-2013,” which the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in September 2016, estimated “is a cost of $57.4 billion.”