“ Therefore, despite legal restrictions on benefits for legal immigrants and outright bans for unlawful immigrants, the large difference in taxes paid between native-born Americans and immigrants without high school diplomas, even those of a very young age, results in a net fiscal cost—i.e., every additional immigrant aged 18–24 without a high school diploma is expected to worsen the fiscal outlook of the United States”
https://manhattan.institute/article/the-lifetime-fiscal-impa...
>This report treats immigrants as individuals in order to avoid treating households of married native-born and immigrant residents as half-immigrant and half-native [...] The economics literature is divided on this matter, partially because the U.S. tax unit is households, not individuals.
You should find better citations tbh.