Vance: Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Lost Annually to Illegal Immigrants

WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance estimated on May 13 that U.S. taxpayers are funding hundreds of billions of dollars annually for illegal immigrants. This taxpayer money goes to fraudulent benefits obtained by illegal immigrants and funding criminal processing for those arrested for crimes, he said. “I’ve seen efforts to try to quantify this. I think the answer is hundreds of billions of dollars a year,” Vance said in response to a question from The Epoch Times at a May 13 press conference. “Whether it’s 300 or [600], it is a lot of money between Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, prison, fees, everything that goes into the criminal migrant problem in the United States of America. It’s a lot of money.”...