Federation for American Immigration Reform Report (F.A.I.R.)

The Fiscal Burden on United States Taxpayers
Revised 2-2011

Executive Summary

"This report estimates the annual costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local level to be about $113
billion; nearly $29 billion at the federal level and $84 billion at the state and local level. The study also estimates
tax collections from illegal alien workers, both those in the above-ground economy and those in the
underground economy. Those receipts do not come close to the level of expenditures and, in any case, are
misleading as an offset because over time unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers would replace illegal
alien workers."