> The overall cost is not low. Some illegal immigrants get benefits. > But those costs are not seen by the businesses that push illegal immigration. Do you ha

> The overall cost is not low. Some illegal immigrants get benefits. > But those costs are not seen by the businesses that push illegal immigration. Do you have a source about the cost? As of 2023, noncitizen immigrants generally and illegal immigrants specifically were a net positive to fiscal burden [1]: > Illegal noncitizens were only somewhat less fiscally positive per capita than noncitizens generally, and they likely reduced the deficit by at least $1.7 trillion from 1994 to 2023. Illegal immigrants of all educational attainments are also likely to have paid more in taxes than they received in government benefits. Although we adopt simple assumptions, it is difficult to arrive at a conclusion significantly different from the one below. Even if illegal immigrants used benefits at the exact same rate as all noncitizens, they would still be, on average, fiscally beneficial to the United States—both by reducing the debt in real terms and by lowering debt-to-GDP. > Almost all illegal immigrants will use the healthcare system eventually. If by almost all you mean that most illegal immigrants get pathways to permanent residence/citizenship (unclear to me whether that's true), it's not very relevant unless you propose that after becoming legal residents illegal immigrants burden the economy/budget more than always-legal residents do. Otherwise, I would wonder whether the national birth rate issue [2] is as urgent as I've heard. [1] https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-budgets-1994-2023#why-illegal-immigrants-were-fiscally-positive https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-g... [2] https://phys.org/news/2026-06-birth-declining-world.html https://phys.org/news/2026-06-birth-declining-world.html