A silver lining to this invasion? Um..NO! On Sunday August 11. 2024, The Daily Caller published this article, headlined, “The Border Crisis Is A Huge Expense For American Taxpayers, Despite What CBO Says.”
A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suggests that the ongoing illegal immigration surge at the southern border will reduce the federal deficit by a staggering $897 billion over the next decade.
At first glance, this figure might seem like a silver lining to this national crisis. However, a closer examination reveals a more complex and concerning picture and reveals this report to be another example of the government trying to conceal the truth from American citizens.
One glaring omission is the exclusion of discretionary spending impacts. The CBO acknowledges that the immigration surge will likely put pressure on many programs funded through discretionary appropriations. In fact, CBO estimates that increased discretionary funding as a result of the border surge could total around $200 billion over the 2024-2034 period. This substantial sum is mentioned but not factored into the deficit reduction calculation because, as CBO says, “no clear basis exists for projecting how the immigration surge will affect [congressional] funding decisions.”
Moreover, the report “does not include estimates of the surge’s effects on state and local budgets.” The CBO itself admits that “[r]esearch has generally found that increases in immigration raise state and local governments’ costs more than their revenues, and CBO expects that finding to hold in the case of the current immigration surge.” New York City alone spent $4.3 billion from July 2022 to March 2024 to accommodate immigrants and comply with existing housing policies. Extrapolating this to other cities over a decade paints a sobering picture of the financial burden on local communities.
“I’d like to know what cloud the Congressional Budget Office is looking at that they see a silver lining to this non-white invasion.”, said Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, based out of Harrison, Arkansas, “There isn’t a good side to this invasion. The left wants you to think these people boost our economy, and reduce the federal deficit, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out they are nothing but a burden to society, as well as a danger to America’s citizenry. Any money these illegals get comes from our tax dollars. They’re given cash, housing, medical, and food, all on our dime! Many of these illegals don’t even put our tax dollars back into our ecocomy, they send it to their relatives in their country of origin. Our tax dollars not only take care of the illegals that are already here, but they fund the trips of even more non-white criminals to our border. Do you really think this is a silver lining to this non-white invasion?”
