percent of receive food stamps and 68 percent receive cash welfare.
November 5, 2015
And it's not going to be just 10,000 as the "ceiling" is meant to keep going up. But even starting with that 10,000 Syrian migrants, the cost will be $640 million.
That's the number suggested by CIS's evaluation of the costs of resettling middle eastern migrants undertaken by Karen Zeigler and Steven A. Camarota.
On average, each Middle Eastern refugee resettled in the United States costs an estimated $64,370 in the first five years, or $257,481 per household.The five-year costs of resettlement in the United States include $9,230 spent by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS and the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) within the State Department in the first year, as well as $55,139 in expenditures on welfare and education.Of Middle Eastern refugee households that have arrived in the last 5 years, 91 percent of receive food stamps and 68 percent receive cash welfare.Very heavy use of welfare programs by Middle Eastern refugees, and the fact that they have only 10.5 years of education on average, makes it likely that it will be many years, if ever, before this population will cease to be a net fiscal drain on public coffers — using more in public services than they pay in taxes.
91 percent. Now that's a sure bet. Why not just call the resettlement program, a food stamp program.
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