Washington Post Worries Illegals Might Pay Their Own Legal Fees, While Immigration Costs Americans Billions

The Washington Post this week is drawing attention to women whose illegal alien husbands have been detained, thus leaving them to care for their children alone. Leave it to the Post to squeeze out another immigration narrative that completely skips over the reason Americans voted for mass deportations in favor of some sob story about the plight of illegals.

“With the large number of men being removed, in many cases, women have been left to provide for their families on their own,” said the article that was bylined by a grand total of four content creators at the paper. “In interviews with The Post, three women and one man described how an ICE arrest has transformed their families. All spoke of disastrous emotional and financial repercussions.” The article also observed that detention of suspected illegal aliens “imposes financial burdens on families, from lost income and attorney fees.”

Having your husband or baby daddy deported is no doubt highly inconvenient. It’s inconvenient the same way it sucks to knowingly violate the speed limit in a rush and end up getting pulled over. And yet for some reason I’ve never gotten out of a ticket by telling a cop that it’s gonna hurt my wallet.

Furthermore, it’s my right to retain a lawyer who might be able to get the fine dropped or reduced, but that would be a personal choice of mine to spend that money, just as it’s the choice of any given illegal alien to seek counsel in hopes of continuing to stay in the U.S. On the other hand, if I don’t fight the charge, I don’t have to pay any legal fees, and neither do illegal aliens resisting deportation. Tah-dah!

But so long as we’re talking about “financial burdens,” let’s see what the data say about the price Americans pay for the failure of both Republicans and Democrats to properly manage who comes into this country. The Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit that supports restricting immigration, found in 2024 that American taxpayers dole out nearly $70,000 per illegal alien over a lifetime. With the CIS estimating at the time that there were roughly 13 million aliens in the U.S., that’s just shy of a $1 trillion tax burden, which accounts for fairly low tax contributions by aliens relative to the government services they receive.

The CIS said that almost 60 percent of illegal alien-led households use at least one welfare program. The nonprofit said in just one year, illegal aliens with children in the U.S. cost the American education system close to $70 billion. The Federation for American Immigration Reform, another immigration restrictionist group, cited that same number in 2024. FAIR determined that illegal aliens come at an annual cost of $22 billion in taxpayer-funded medical care.

In 2023, FAIR estimated that the taxpayer cost per illegal alien increased by $35 billion over the course of five years, starting in 2017. Each individual American taxpayer shells out roughly $1,000 every year to cover the cost of illegal immigration, according to FAIR’s 2023 numbers.

That cost analysis is apparently of no concern to The Washington Post — and it says nothing of the countless murders and assaults incurred by Americans at the hands of illegal aliens on a routine basis. The Post is worried about the legal fees imposed on our “newcomers.”

The sob stories are far more important to the media than what illegal immigration has done to actual Americans.

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