People walk on a street in New York, the United States, on July 20, 2021. (File photo: Xinhua)
NEW YORK, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Washington's "porous" border policies will cost New York taxpayers a total of 9.9 billion U.S. dollars in 2023, according to a watchdog report quoted by the New York Post.
According to The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2023, a report by the non-profit organization Federation for American Immigration Reform, New Yorkers have to pay for various government programs that serve more than 1 million illegal immigrants and asylum-seeking migrants.
The report also estimates that the border crisis is costing U.S. taxpayers more than 150 billion dollars annually -- a 30 percent jump from their 2017 study.
