The White House says immigration policies backed by the Democratic Socialists of America would cost American taxpayers up to $613 billion over the next decade.
\n\nThe number comes from a Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) report detailed Thursday, which puts the ten-year range at $440 billion to $613 billion. To get there, the council assigned every illegal immigrant a lifetime net fiscal cost of $166,716. Run across the illegal alien population already in the country, that works out to between $1.4 trillion and $1.9 trillion.
\n\nFox News measured that per-person figure against the price of a degree, pointing to College Board data that puts a four-year in-state public education, room and board included, at roughly $124,000.
\n\nMost of the projected cost is benefits. Opening food stamps, federal housing assistance and Medicaid to illegal aliens who would be legalized under a mass amnesty would add $361 billion to $475 billion over ten years. Medicaid alone accounts for as much as $40 billion a year, with food stamps adding $3.6 billion to $4.7 billion annually and housing assistance another $2.3 billion to $3 billion.
\n\nThe council estimates that unwinding the current crackdown would wipe out $227 billion to $287 billion in projected…
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