{"id":59913,"date":"2025-06-24T04:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59913"},"modified":"2025-06-24T04:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:45:31","slug":"how-much-did-the-open-border-really-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59913","title":{"rendered":"How Much Did The Open Border Really Cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/23\/budget-office-estimates-biden-border-bedlam-cost-states-billions\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLGUa9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFQWWpZbkFVVk5yazhOenpmAR5YfG4m_wRyI94L8DMFe5JMjiT1A_Ot9S8pMcX1vTwUkQ1M47XggjgpH6Tc9Q_aem_4yR40FIj8iLIiRY5Px10MA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about the cost of having an open border for the four years of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Congressional Budget Office (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBO<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/61464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">estimates<\/a> that the surge in illegal migration cost governments billions of dollars in 2023, which illustrates the real-world impact of the previous administration\u2019s actions \u2014 or inactions. The report also exhorted Congress to provide adequate resources for border security, so that the chaos of the past four years can never happen again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;CBO believes that, of those 4.3 million, \u201cabout a quarter,\u201d or roughly 1.1 million, \u201cwere qualified aliens upon arrival.\u201d That term has particular relevance because the 1996 welfare reform law restricted eligibility for federal programs to \u201cqualified aliens\u201d who have served a five-year waiting period. However, CBO also notes that \u201cabout half,\u201d or over 500,000, \u201cof those qualified aliens\u201d arriving during the surge \u201cwere exempt from the five-year waiting period,\u201d and therefore could immediately receive taxpayer-funded benefits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;On net, CBO estimated the direct costs to state and local governments from the immigration surge at $9.2 billion in 2023 alone. Including indirect costs raised the total even further, to $9.8 billion in 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America can have either an open border or a welfare state. It can&#8217;t have both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, The Federalist posted an article about the cost of having an open border for the four years of the Biden administration. The article reports: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the surge in illegal migration cost governments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59913\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10974,8647,99,15604,11815],"class_list":["post-59913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congressional-budget-office-cbo","tag-cost-of-illegal-immigration","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-open-border","tag-the-federalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59914,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59913\/revisions\/59914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}