HYGO News Mayorkas Won't Answer Taxpayer Cost Of Historic Illegal Immigration Since Biden Took Office
Mayorkas Won’t Answer Taxpayer Cost Of Historic Illegal Immigration Since Biden Took Office
#shorts Reporter: So — so, you talked about cost. What’s the rough cost to American taxpayers since the roughly 4 million people have come into this country illegally, since January of 2021? As those people show up in community hospitals, as they enter the school system, as they get other government help — do you have a taxpayer cost?
MAYORKAS: Let me turn that question around a little bit, because I’m going to turn it around to match the question that an international partner asked of me. And the question that the international partner asked of me is, “What is the economic cost of your broken immigration system?” … there are desperate workers looking for jobs in — desperate workers in foreign countries that are looking for jobs in the United States … What is the cost of a broken immigration system? That is the question that I am asked, and that is the question that I pose to Congress, because it is extraordinary.
Reporter: But do you have — do you have the cost that the taxpayers are paying now?
MAYORKAS: I — I believe I have addressed your question.
On 5/11/2023, at a White House press briefing, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took questions for almost an hour from reporters on the occasion of the border with Mexico being overrun by migrants as the Title 42 exclusion rule is set to expire nationwide at midnight EDT Thursday.
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Mayorkas Won’t Answer Taxpayer Cost Of Historic Illegal Immigration Since Biden Took Office
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#shorts Reporter: So — so, you talked about cost
- What’s the rough cost to American taxpayers since the roughly 4 million people have come into this country illegally, since January of 2021
- As those people show up in community hospitals, as they enter the school system, as they get other government help — do you have a taxpayer cost
- MAYORKAS: Let me turn that question around a little bit, because I’m going to turn it around to match the question that an international partner asked of me