Do You Know What
Obama's Amnesty Will Cost?

The costs have been added up by our country's foremost author­ity on such things, Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation. He told the House Oversight and Government Reform Com­mittee in March that the lifetime costs of Social Se­curity and Medicare ben­efits paid to the millions of illegal aliens to whom Obama is granting legal status will be about $1.3 Trillion. Rector's calcula­tion is based on his assumption that at least 3.97 million illegal aliens will receive legal status under DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents), and the av­erage DAPA beneficiary has only a 10th grade education.

According to Rector's calcula­tions, DAPA recipients would re­ceive $7.8 Billion every year once they get access to the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the refundable Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). Those EITC and ACTC recipients will also be allowed to claim credit for three years of illegal work, which will sock the U.S. taxpayers for another $23.5 billion.

This was confirmed by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who told Congress on February 11 that illegal immigrants who didn't pay any taxes, or who used fake Social Security numbers, will nevertheless be able to claim back-refunds under EITC once they get new Social Security numbers under Obama's amnesty. Koskinen said he didn't know how much these tax refunds will cost and the White House never checked with him before announcing the amnesty.

The average DAPA-eligible family already re­ceives about $6,600 a year in means-tested welfare benefits. That includes food stamps, school lunch (and break­fast), Medicaid, S-CHIP, and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children). Many Americans labor under the false assumption that, since most legal and illegal immigrants are hard-working, they therefore do not depend on welfare assis­tance. In fact, as Rector patiently explains, most welfare benefits go to households with children headed by a low-income employed adult.

Rector estimates that the com­bined cost of means-tested welfare benefits the illegals now receive, plus other goodies such as EITC and ACTC cash, will encourage increased illegal immigration in the future. The average American, whose children and grandchildren will end up burdened with this enormous debt, must ask them­selves whether someone is trying to destroy America.

Look at California for a preview of our future under Obama's illegal immigration plan. The Hispanic population is now almost equal to the white population and almost 50% of all California births are now Hispanic. Nearly a third of all "Eng­lish learners" in U.S. public schools are third-generation Americans who still are not speaking English at home, and the Hispanic illegiti­macy rate is 53%. The cheap labor welcomed by employers is not only a huge impediment for American job-seekers, it's also a big expense to taxpayers who are hit with new costs of schools, hospitals and prisons.

The two factors that Americans are most concerned about are jobs and vote fraud. The United States has accepted two new immigrants for each additional job created since 2000 according to federal data, and expert witnesses have testified that once the amnestied illegls are given Social Security numbers and driver's licenses, there is no way to stop them from registering to vote.