There's about $11 billion a year in federal taxes from undocumented people, and over $500 million in local taxes.
Healthcare is a for profit industry. In the end, it does affect healthcare prices, but mostly because we're beholden to a cartel of health insurance that's main motive is profit rather than helping people have proper healthcare. But that's another issue.
There are very, very few immigrants who have access to government healthcare, and if they do, it's for a set allotment of time. And those is often for refugees, not people illegally crossing the boarder. The number of refuses is very small in the end.
Also, undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native born people here in the US. Perhaps that's a bit more cost due to more bodies in general, but they still commit crime at less of a rate.
Contrary to public perception, we observe considerably lower felony arrest rates among undocumented immigrants compared to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens and find no evidence that undocumented criminality has increased in recent years.
Here's the source, there are many others if you search for such things.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/03/15/undocumented-ohio-immigrants-taxes-no-benefits/4628218001/
There's about $11 billion a year in federal taxes from undocumented people, and over $500 million in local taxes.
Healthcare is a for profit industry. In the end, it does affect healthcare prices, but mostly because we're beholden to a cartel of health insurance that's main motive is profit rather than helping people have proper healthcare. But that's another issue.
There are very, very few immigrants who have access to government healthcare, and if they do, it's for a set allotment of time. And those is often for refugees, not people illegally crossing the boarder. The number of refuses is very small in the end.
Also, undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than native born people here in the US. Perhaps that's a bit more cost due to more bodies in general, but they still commit crime at less of a rate.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117