Most refugees actually end up paying thousands more in taxes than they receive in government handouts from the US.
A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that refugees who entered the US as adults from 2010-14 paid, on average, $21,000 more in taxes than they got in any kind of welfare payments.
On average, it costs about $15,000 to help settle a refugee, including both initial background checks as well as job and English training once they arrive. As refugees are also immediately eligible for welfare assistance and Medicaid, the government spends approximately $92,000 in governmental assistance for the first 20 years each refugee spends in the US.
Over the same time, refugees pay an average of $129,000 in taxes — netting the government approximately $21,000 more than it spends.
The study also looked at the United States Refugee Admissions Program, which President Donald Trump has tried to suspend with his temporary travel bans that the courts have continued to block.
In 2016, as the global humanitarian crisis reached new heights, over 65 million people were displaced in some way, while around 21 million were technically considered refugees. The US only admitted nearly 85,000 refugees last year.
On average, refugees who arrived before they turned 14 finished high school and went to college at the same rates as their native-born peers. Older teens who arrived in their late teens struggled the most and had much lower graduation rates, due, in part, to the fact that they come with low English skills and are often separated from their parents.
As for those who come to the US as refugees as adults, most struggled with low employment rates and reliance on government assistance at first. But in only six years in their new country, the same group of refugees surpassed native-born Americans it came to employment and their reliance on welfare or food stamps.
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>refugees who entered the US as adults from 2010-14
>$92,000 in governmental assistance for the first 20 years each refugee spends in the US
It's only been, at most, seven years since 2010, and , at most, three years since 2014. How can they possibly have credible evidence extending out 20 years?
Only refugees who are younger than 14 when they arrive and it isn't clear whether they are deducting the costs associated with their parent so it could potentially end up being nil or negative
>not counting their burden on the education system
>not factoring in that most of them are much older than 14, male, low skilled and religious
>not considering flooding the market with more workers is bad for Americans in the first place
>not having enough empathy to understand that forcing them down a path of identity-void and degenerate American """culture""" often makes them want to embrace radicalism and never fully integrate
>not even getting that the entire world fucking despises the leaf race