'Regularizing' Illegal Immigrants Living in US Bad Business

The Biden administration's open southern border policy is making Mexican human trafficking cartels enormously wealthy and powerful at great cost to American taxpayers who must pay welfare compensation to fill hoped-for Democrat amnesty voting ranks.

Although refraining to blame their own open border and sanctuary city sentiments for what they themselves refer to as a migrant crisis, desperate mayors of Democrat-controlled cities are pleading for federal bailouts — yes, your tax money — to cover escalating costs for related housing, food, education and other burdens.

New York Mayor Eric Adams has issued an $12.2 billion appeal to the Biden administration to help cover shelter costs throughout the new year.

Chicago spent more than $360 million on migrant costs last year, according to data released by Mayor Brandon Johnson.

That's likely chump change compared with incoming numbers that are rapidly ramping up with no end in sight.

According to reports by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), nearly 10 million known illegal immigrants have entered America's open border with Mexico since Biden took office, more than 7.5 million since January 2021 not including an estimated 1.6-2.5 million gotaways who evaded law enforcement altogether.

December broke a record for monthly encounters with more than 276,000, up from a previous September record of 270,000.

There have been more than 760,000 known illegal immigrants and 82,000 estimated gotaways since a new fiscal year began on Oct. 1.

Whereas this has created a booming multi-billion-dollar industry for human trafficking cartels who reportedly charge between $6,000 and $15,000 per migrant delivered depending upon their country of origin, the deal hasn't provided any upside whatsoever for those who become their financial sponsors.

A November report released by the House Committee on Homeland Security puts existing annual federal and state support for illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S. exceeding the annual gross domestic product (GDP) of 15 states.

As concluded by the committee, "Only a small fraction is ever recouped from the taxes paid by illegal aliens, with the rest falling on the shoulders of American citizens and lawful residents."

Among the biggest of these expenses are Medicaid costs for "emergency services for undocumented aliens" which, according to figures provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services exceeded $12.4 billion in the past two years.

New York City hospitals alone recorded about 30,000 FY 2022 visits by illegal immigrants along with approximately 300 births, while a maternity ward at a Yuma, Arizona, incurred over $26 million in uncompensated costs for illegal patients.

A welfare program known as Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) that gives low-income pregnant women and their children up to the age of five nutritious food disperses over $1.3 billion in these benefits each year to illegal immigrants.

In FY 2022, the federal government also provided millions of illegal immigrants with about $5.8 billion in food stamps.

The congressional House report notes that "Because [DHS Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas refuses to follow the law requiring him to detain and remove illegal aliens, towns and cities across the country have been forced to pick up the costs of housing and providing shelter for the hundreds of thousands that have been released into their communities.

"This reality," it states, "has been documented everywhere from small towns thousands of miles from the border, all the way to America's largest cities," with annual housing costs for illegal residents forecast to soon reach $451 billion.

Chicago is already spending north of $20 million a month, and Washington, D.C., is doling out more than $52 million.

It also cost a lot to relocate them.

The House committee reported that Texas alone spent more than $75 million to transfer migrants from the state. On top of that, the federal government spent at least $340 million transferring border state migrants to the interior last year and $660 million to relocate alien family units and minors classified as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC).

Migrants under 18 who arrive in the U.S. alone are supposed to be transferred into the custody of an approved sponsor but not always a family member or anyone that can be responsibly vetted as a non-sex trade exploiter.

Nearly four million illegal children from 170 countries attend public schools, many of whom receive special services for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) costing American taxpayers another nearly $59 billion.

The House Committee on Homeland Security forecasts that New York City will spend approximately $440 million to educate about 11,500 illegal immigrants who will likely remain in their system next year.

Then at a time when many Democrat cities are cutting back police budgets, the National Institute of Corrections reports that in FY 2022, illegal immigrants cost around $3.72 billion in judicial expenses and about $6.2 billion in prison costs.

DOJ statistics cited in the congressional report disclosed that about 25,000 criminal immigrants are currently in federal prisons at an annual price tag of approximately $40,000 per incarcerated individual ... that's another $1 billion not to mention the social and economic costs of crimes.

Meanwhile, as numbers continue to surge, a recent meeting among Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City reportedly discussed "regularizing" illegal immigrants living in the U.S.

And that was the disastrously diabolical Democrat amnesty plan all along.

Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and the graduate space architecture program. His latest of 12 books is "Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life By Design" (2022). Read Larry Bell's Reports — More Here.