Taxpayer Turmoil: Massive Migrant Wave Vaporizes Monumental $150 Billion
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3 min readOct 25, 2024
Unparalleled Undermining of Critical Social Services
Impact on cities
In 2023 and 2024, New York City is allocating $2.3 billion exclusively for housing migrants, forcing city agencies to reduce their budgets by 5%. Meanwhile, in South Portland, Maine, property taxes have surged to address the migrant crisis, leading the mayor to advise elderly residents to take out second mortgages to help cover these increased costs.
The mighty Chicago is also feeling the financial strain, facing a staggering $1 billion budget gap partly due to expenses related to migrant services.
Chicago is now urgently seeking ways to fill this shortfall. FAIR reports that, as of early 2022, there were at least 15.5 million undocumented immigrants residing in the United States. The annual federal expenditure per migrant reached $3,187, reflecting a 45% increase since FAIR’s previous survey 2017.
