According to a new study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), illegal immigration is costing the Federal Government $29 billion annually and state and local governments $84.2 billion per year…for a total of $113 billion, every single year.

This means that the average American household has to pay $1,117 per year for millions of uneducated poor people to illegally break into our country, bottom out our wages and take our jobs.

In addition to compromising public safety, crowding our prisons and bankrupting our welfare system, the single greatest cost is education. Illegal immigrants don’t pay the property taxes that fund the schools, but they do overwhelm them with under-educated, non-English-speaking children. This costs taxpayers a staggering $52 billion per year at the state and local levels.

The revenues produced by illegal immigrants makes up for less than 5% of what they consume, since even the few who do pay income taxes, for instance, make so little that they get it all back at tax time. Many of them are even getting extra income from the U.S. Treasury by capitalizing on tax credits.

Click here for the state-by-state break down.

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