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Good lord - No its not a rounding error. How did you even get that ? Here is the cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers:

https://budget.house.gov/download/the-cost-of-illegal-immigr...

It is ~42 billion for welfame, $70 billion USD for schooling, $7.5 billion for the uninsured, etc, totaling to around ~150 billion. This is also around the figure confirmed by DOGE.

It would be nice if you can refute the data on facts.

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It’s not an official figure. It’s a figure calculated by an anti-immigration “think tank”.

And even taking their numbers as gospel, it’s 1.1% of the federal budget - and it’s not like you can claw back that 1.1% either, because the enforcement mechanisms required to expel and keep illegal immigrants out of the USA would cost very substantial amounts.

That study is from CIS. CIS' founder was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tanton

then you should look up "Jared Taylor". Then look up "American Renaissance"

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