As the media once again melts down about deported foreign criminals and Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan pressing illegal aliens to self-deport, leftists would like to ignore the billions of dollars American taxpayers spend every year on unauthorized foreign nationals in our country.
Democrats always talk as if we have endless amounts of money or as if unfairly raising taxes yet again on the prosperous will give us boundless wealth to redistribute. This is simply not true, as the United States federal government is $36.79 trillion in debt as of Wednesday and increasing every second. And of all government waste, that on individuals who are only here because they violated our laws is among the most repugnant and unjust.
Every illegal alien has committed a crime by entering the country, and too many of them have committed other very serious crimes, too. As of September, at least 425,000 illegal aliens in the United States were convicted criminals, over 13,000 of them being murderers. Yet Democrats lavish our money on these illegal aliens while ignoring American citizens, including victims of natural disasters in Ohio, Hawaii, California, Florida, and North Carolina.
In fact, the House Budget Committee announced in May 2024 that, based on research by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the annual cost of the border crisis under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris reached $150 billion annually. And FAIR estimated that the annual cost could actually be even higher than that.
Thus, every deportation or self-deportation thanks to the Trump administration saves us money. Homan said again this week to illegals, “Get your affairs in order. If you’re in the country illegally, work with ICE, go to CBP One Home app, and leave on your own.”
Homan stated, “There are currently around 1.4 million illegal aliens who have been ordered removed but remain here in violation of the law. The Trump Administration is committed to enforcing our laws, especially for those aliens who have received final orders of deportation.”
He added uncompromisingly, “We will aggressively prosecute, consistent with long-standing law, those aliens for failing or refusing to depart or who take other related actions aimed at hindering their removal. If you fail to leave the United States after receiving a removal order, we can and will issue monetary fines up to $998 a day.” What a novel idea — having illegal aliens pay us instead of us paying illegal aliens. Homan explained, “If you cannot open the door [for immigration officers], if you cannot answer our questions, if you cannot open the car door, you’re considered to be evading law enforcement.”
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As a reminder, Laken Riley’s murderer took a “free” taxpayer-funded flight to Georgia, where he brutally murdered the young student. And last year, it was found FEMA had wasted over $1 billion on illegal aliens soon before telling red-state hurricane victims the federal disaster aid had run out. According to Frontlines TPUSA, Democrat authorities in California are still going to great lengths to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer-funded housing and cash. The examples are endless, but our money isn’t.
As Democrats bewail illegal alien criminals like accused drug- and human-trafficking Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the “Pomona father” who is actually a felon, Trump and Homan are trying to protect U.S. citizens and save us money.
