TheHill: Surprise! That 'cheap' immigrant labor costs us a lot"....over $116 BILLION to Taxpayers PER YEAR!!! TheHill:  Surprise! That 'cheap' immigrant labor costs us a lot" We could pay for every idiotic boondoggle proposed by the 300 Democratic presidential candidates if the current president would simply keep his central campaign promise to build a border wall and deport illegal aliens. (Back off — “illegal alien” is the term used in federal law.) A 2017 study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that illegal aliens cost the American taxpayer — on net — $116 billion a year. That’s pretty high, but the actual number is more likely triple that. Full article: https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/449887-ann-coulter-surprise-that-cheap-immigrant-labor-costs-us-a-lot So Taxpayers are subsidizing businesses that use illegal aliens for cheap labor, so the business owners can reap the profits and get richer, off the taxpayer's back.  (Think of Construction Companies, etc). Do the Math: Trump’s Wall Is $25 Billion, Illegals Cost $165 Billion https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/01/13/do-the-math-trumps-wall-is-25-billion-illegals-cost-165-billion/