What do refugee criminals cost taxpayers? by Ann Corcoran 8/20/18.
It
is a question I have asked many times over the years! Whenever
I see a news story with some glowing report about how refugees financially
benefit the communities in which they are placed, I
suspect that all the costs to society are never calculated.
For instance….Costs
like remittance dollars sent out of the US economy (a story for another day!)?
Cost of interpreters for myriad obscure languages? Complete cost of educating
the children? Costs associated with elderly and infirm refugees? And, the cost
of crime, of courts, of prison time!
High security federal prison,
Victorville, in California where an Uzbek refugee attempted to murder the
prison warden!
We have had a bunch of refugee crime stories lately including the Iraqi alleged
terrorist found living in California, the Iraqi who shot a police officer in
the head in Colorado, the Uzbek sentenced for trying to kill the prison warden,
the Ethiopian alleged human rights abuser arrested in Virginia last week, and
see today’s more detailed story about the Arizona Somalis who lied to
get in to the US. (All those and 2,000 more stories are posted in my Crimes category.)
Someone
with accounting and financial skills needs to put some time in to researching
the costs to the US taxpayer of refugee criminals in America.
Thanks
to reader ‘Thetinfoilhatsociety’ for sending us the annual average cost to taxpayers in each
state for incarceration of convicted criminals.
The
list, here, is a few
years old, but it is very useful and I’ll be archiving it in my ‘Where to find information’category
for future reference.
State by state: How much does it
cost to keep someone in prison? Let’s
talk about California and Fazliddin
Kurbanov….#6. California Average Annual Cost
Per Inmate: $47,421
Uzbek
refugee, Kurbanov, has been sentenced to two consecutive
sentences of 25 and 20 years (see my post Saturday).
It
is possible that his cost of incarceration is higher than the average for
California because I doubt he is kept in the general prison population. And, it
is likely that federal prisons are even more costly.
If
my math is correct (you better check it!) he will cost taxpayers at minimum
over $2 million just for his prison time. That doesn’t include the cost
of his two trials.
I’ve
always thought it would be fun to see a law which requires the US State
Department to pay for the state costs of refugee criminals they placed in your
towns and cities. Of course, you, the taxpayers would still bear the tax
burden, but it might make the feds more careful about who they are admitting to
the US!
Do this….So
please, the next time your local paper runs a story from the likes of ‘Welcoming America‘ about the economic benefits
refugees bring to your town, write a letter-to-the- editor and ask if all
of the COSTS have been calculated! You needn’t do any math, simply ask if remittances
are in the study, education of kids, medical care costs to taxpayers, and the
cost to the criminal justice system, to name a few, are included.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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