Illegal Aliens in America Cost Taxpayers $150 Billion Last Year, Study Finds

The state comptroller of New York projects the migrant crisis could cost state taxpayers $4.3 billion through 2025.

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Staten Island residents gather to protest outside of a closed Catholic school-turned-migrant shelter, August 28, 2023, at New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

American taxpayers last year spent $150 billion on government services to support 20 million illegal aliens in the country, according to a study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

But it wasn’t the federal government that bore the brunt of the costs. The majority of the huge burden was absorbed by state and local governments.

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