There’s a lot of confusion and misunderstanding out there around the economic impact of illegal immigration in the United States. We decided to bring some clarity around the issue by mapping new numbers on the estimated costs of illegal immigration on a state-by-state basis.
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Our viz takes data from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) about how much illegal immigration costs in each state. FAIR takes into account a variety of different expenditures, like healthcare, education and refundable tax credits. We mapped these numbers across the United States according to a color-coded scale. Purple and dark red states have comparatively high expenditures, but the pink and blue states spend relatively less money because of illegal immigrants. There are two interesting trends you can see from looking at the data in this way.
First, states that spend the most on illegal immigration tend to be located close to Mexico. Looking at out map, the two states with the highest expenditures are California ($23B) and Texas ($11B), both sharing long borders with Mexico. In fact, there’s a cluster of dark red states stretching along the Southwest. States closest to the phenomenon pay the most as a result.
Second, states with higher population levels tend to spend more than their less populated counterparts. You can see a group of high-expenditure states clustered around the Northeast, not to mention Illinois and Florida. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, California and Texas are also the two most populous states in the country. High population levels and proximity to Mexico act like a double-whammy for illegal immigration expenses.
Now take a look at the places with relatively low levels of expenditures for illegal immigration, the light blue states. They are all located far away from the U.S.-Mexico border with relatively small population levels. West Virginia is perhaps an exceptional state, seeing that it is surrounded by red and dark red. We can speculate that this is likely due to the fact that West Virginia has a struggling economy which actually contracted last year.
We should add that the source for the numbers in our viz come from a partisan outfit. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) advocates for legislation designed to decrease immigration, and you can poke holes in their methodology. For example, suppose immigrants really are paying less in income taxes because of their illegal status. Forbes estimates that granting them amnesty would actually boost their state tax contributions by $2.1 billion. That’s the exact opposite conclusion than what FAIR would like you to believe.
That being said, here’s a list breaking down the States with the highest expenditures for illegal immigration according to FAIR.
1. California – $23,038,125,353
2. Texas – $10,994,614,550
3. New York – $7,489,141,357
4. Florida – $6,290,429,108
5. New Jersey – $4,466,838,574
6. Illinois – $3,220,767,517
7. Georgia – $2,487,719,503
8. North Carolina – $2,437,965,113
9. Maryland – $2,378,996,947
10. Arizona – $2,314,131,964
Remember, these numbers only look at the net expenditures that states spend on illegal immigration, and they say nothing about other contributions to the economy. Any way you cut it though, whenever states are spending billions of dollars on something, it’s worth taking a hard look at where the money is going and why.
Data: Table 1.1
Shouldn’t be a problem because, according to Fred, all these illegals are technological, high IQ geniuses.
Dog genes, if Infidel could see you now, he’d tell you to up your game and stop being so ignorant.
Illegals come in all colors. Fred was talking about Mexicans; beaners.
Not Arabs, and Chinese.
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When you see what they have done to improve their own countries, such as Mexico/ Somalia / Sand Monkey Land, they are sure to be an asset.
Here in Minneapolis we have 50,000 Somalis. These fuckers are so far into the stone age, they needed to give them classes on how to use a faucet (no shit). These sand monkeys were destroying the kitchens cause they didn’t know how to use a stove. The one thing they know how to do, is use a iPhone, as they are on them continuously. I’m not sure how someone who is a refugee can afford a $1000 phone and a data plan.
50,000? There’s 50,000 just in JC Penney.
Their phones are subsidized by your taxes, as is their food, housing, indoctrination to hate white people aka education, medical care, and on and on.
They’re Obama phones.
I don’t understand how we became and continue to be a self-destructive country.
I don’t understand how we allow niggers to run rampant, ruin cities, cause a great social and financial burden.
Dutch….IMO, it is part of NWO Agenda. Look at Europe – same planning but further advanced. The IPCC comments said it was: 1. Redistribution of wealth, and 2. To destroy the capitalism model
The EU is a planned light into the future: A few unelected bureaucrats run the show, make all the rules and laws and vote themselves whatever compensation is desired, non-taxable! ETC. !!!
kokoda, I don’t think things will get as bad here as they are in Europe. Right now, we still have guns. I think Americans will finally hit a point where led will fly.
It was called the Civil War. Should have sent them all back after slavery became not worth the cost. But, no, Lincoln and and his rabid Republicans had to have things their way.
Ball python, Monty.
Maps are mostly for mopes who can’t mentally manage the territory.
No matter who is heaven-manna’d, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. “Give free lunch to us – not them” – is nuthin’ but rank hypocrisy.
“They” – who are indistinguishable from “us” – are FSA “sub”species, by virtue of color of law illegality, but “we” are virtuous & righteous by virtue of the same color o’ law collar…say the sheepish – or should be – wolves & wolverines.
Tail swallowing head, head infiltrating tail…no real snake would ever do such a thing. That’s reserved for stupid human pet trick-or-treaters, hollow ween’rs…who are just as cold-blooded as any reptile.
More, prolly. Ted Williams deadhead is suspended in a vat of liquid nitrogen. Like that. FSB. Frozen shit for brains.
WTF? “i forget” – drop some more acid, maybe some crack and/or meth. You’ll smooth out.
FTW. It’s how that matters.
If I’m flying, Dutchman, it’s from the aery, not the underwater pyroclastic flow.
Fata Morgana’s in the eye of the beholder. & is seen especially often, & luridly, in the eyes of the held-against-their-will (not). I gotta get to Stockholm someday. It’s the cradle of syphilization, ya know. The really bad kind, not the creative inducing kind (which still kills).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)
i forget, you’re pretty intriguing, even though have the time I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
Don’t change iforget.
I might, if I could remember how, Wip.
Stucky on shrooms.
You postin’ from experience, Neuday? Or just some other’s experience imaginatively borrowed by you?
CWI – Commenting While Intoxicated.
Do all leg-ironed chaingangers dislike unchained melodies? Cool Hand Luke sends his affection & this one’s for them that prefer rattles, pacifiers & such (ghost ship meet ghost):
I didn’t like that movie.
“FAIR takes into account a variety of different expenditures, like healthcare, education and refundable tax credits. ”
So, to be fair and honest about this, the problem is GOVERNMENT, its THEFT from our pockets, and ITS handouts to parasites that come a’beggin.
The problem is not inherently with so-called illegal immigrants. The WELFARE state (along with its marriage partner, the warfare state) is bankrupting this nation, and providing a perverse incentive for some to come to this country. Were there NO welfare state, how many would come, and what drain would they be on our society?? In the late 1800s and early 1900s, there was NO government mandated/run welfare state in this country. If you came to our shores, you had to have skills and a sponsor, and “mutual aid societies” helped out new comers to this country. Italians helped out Italians, Irish, the Irish, etc. There were NO “free” schools for anyone, parents (even American citizens) realized that children were THEIR responsibility, NOT society’s, and the vast majority of people, whether immigrant or not, took care of their own costs and those of their family.
So truly this is a chart of the cost of ALLOWING Government power to once again overstep its legal and Constitutional authority, and to violate basic morality by once again stealing from some to hand to others.
Excellent point
“Remember, these numbers only look at the net expenditures that states spend on illegal immigration…” Illegal being the key word there. Add in the expenditures for the Government Assisted Refugees (GAR), via the Resettlement Assistance Program, you know, those Syrian women and children and the Sub Saharan savages and the costs skyrocket.
Thanks to the core of recently-removed, Anti-American Obama administration players, and those still in the government that are loyal to that core, or as Lt. Colonel Potter calls them, the “Cabal,” for using both illegal and legal immigration as just another plank in their platform to dismantle our Constitutional Republic. May they drown in their own excrement.
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Nkit, glad to see others are enjoying Lt. Col. Potter’s videos. The cabal, nice touch.
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Yeah, because double digit IQ morons who cannot feed themselves in their homeland are a huge economic boon for Space Age Societies. Seems legit. When you see magic negro scientists making stuff for Batman, that’s the kind of sound fiscal policy that can make Detroit into Africa in less than two generations. When Whites ran it, it was a dull City with safe streets and the Highest Standard of Living in the World. But thanks to the “vibrancy” of low IQ savages it now is overgrown by vegetation, and the Public Library full of rare books is now used as nesting material by wild animals that do not hate reading as much as blacks. Who can argue with that kind of progress?
When you all saw “Logan’s Run” as a kid growing up, you probably thought a domed city in a burnt out ruin was the result of Nucular War, or some kind of plague. But surprise! It was actually letting blacks and feminists run their society straight into the ground.
Doom…………..that last para was superlative.
States and local governments frequently offer financial incentives to business to expand or relocate to their states/cities because they believe it improves economic growth and the tax base. They often get into bidding wars with each other. So why isn’t any state or local governments giving direct bonuses (beyond the social services mandated) to illegal aliens if they are the great economic benefit that s claimed?
Robbing peter to pay paul to hire more peters. The peter-paul mounds principle. Whether you feel like a nut, or not, note the shredded coconut it takes to bite into this con•fection trifecta.
And when you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul.
No problem. According to Fred, Mexico is so great all the gringos will emigrate there and leave the USA to the beaners.
I have to admit I’d rather have a Mexican than a Somalian or South African. At least the majority of Mexicans know how to use a stove.
Treason has a price tag attached.