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<br>FAIR Take | June 2025
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<br>On June 5, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report examining the effects of the Biden administration’s 2021-2025 “surge in immigration” on state and local government budgets. The report was limited in scope but confirmed the findings of FAIR’s cost study: when the impacts of illegal immigration are fully accounted for, costs far outweigh any benefits and American taxpayers are stuck with the bill. The CBO report estimates that illegal aliens who entered during the Biden administration generated $10.1 billion, mostly in sales taxes, while incurring $19.3 billion in costs, for a net drain on taxpayers of at least $9.2 billion.
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<br>The CBO report begins by defining the “surge population.” From 2021 to the end of 2023, according to the report, the “other foreign national” (CBO’s term for illegal alien) population increased by a staggering 4.3 million due to the Biden administration’s open-borders policies. This broadly tracks FAIR’s illegal alien population estimates and is much more realistic than many open-borders groups’ static figures. The CBO report only covers that specific population’s effects on state and local budgets in 2023, rather than addressing the costs from all illegal aliens.
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<br>Even with a limited subject population, the effects are striking. The CBO report estimates that those 4.3 million illegal aliens paid around $10.1 billion in taxes to state and local governments. However, $7.1 billion of those taxes were sales taxes, which every person participating in the American economy pays. The “surge population” was estimated to have paid only $1.6 billion in income taxes, even though many were authorized to work due to unlawful parole programs or pending asylum applications. The underwhelming figure paid in income taxes is largely due to a lack of English language and other skills limiting illegal aliens’ work prospects and thus their contributions to the economy.
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<br>But that dearth of skills does not prevent those aliens from taking advantage of taxpayer-funded services. This same illegal alien population consumed a massive $19.3 billion in public services, with that burden falling directly on state and local taxpayers. The largest single expense the report found was “general services” at $6.1 billion, encompassing health care, police and fire protection needs, and social services in general. That figure corresponds with the many impacts of unplanned population growth, in line with FAIR’s extensive coverage on the crime and stress on our medical system [JC1] from mass illegal immigration under the Biden administration. In fact, many states, like New York City and Massachusetts, have been forced by local laws to provide shelter for thousands of illegal aliens at taxpayer expense, and CBO estimates that 2023 spending on these types of services alone was $3.3 billion, more than twice what the same population paid in income taxes.
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<br>Education was another massive expense, estimated at $5.7 billion