A wall could've cost less: Biden's DHS shells out over $20 BILLION on 'asylum seekers'

WASHINGTON, DC— The Office of Refugee Resettlement under the Biden administration has spent over $20 billion over the last two years illegally trafficking, aiding, and abetting foreign nationals who have entered our nation criminally according to a new report released this week. 

As reported by The Washington Times, a majority of that money was spent feeding, sheltering, and caring for children illegally trafficked into the U.S. in addition to supporting arrivals from the catastrophic military withdrawal from Afghanistan. This is, of course, in addition to more typical refugees from Cuba, Haiti, and other nations per government spending watchdog group OpenTheBooks.

But as Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks, put it, "Regular Americans are underwriting the generosity. And it’s the hardworking taxpayer who is feeling the strain as migrants are resettled in their neighborhoods across the country."

He added, "Exploding expenditures on everything from resettlement to auto loans are further incentivizing a vicious cycle at our borders." He called the money being spent at a breakneck pace, "financial self-harm."

If the figure of $20 billion sounds somewhat familiar, it's likely because that's the approximate figure discussed by establishment media and Democrat talking heads during the first term of former President Donald Trump for his proposed border wall. An internal DHS report cited by Reuters in 2017 gave the most pessimistic figure of $21.6 billion. Former President Donald Trump's estimate was a far more tame $8 billion according to CNN.  The truth is likely somewhere between.

“The wall is probably $8 billion, which is a tiny fraction of the money that we lose with Mexico. We lose a tremendous amount of trade deficits. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that is astronomical, much bigger than that. We will get – and I say it also is also part of my plan – Mexico is going to pay for the wall,” Trump said at the time.

J.D. Rucker writing from The Liberty Daily raised the noteworthy point when he asked, " How many border walls could have been built for $20 billion?" Either way regardless of whether Trump's or the DHS's estimate rings truer, one thing is for certain: a United States that built the wall versus the one we live in today with Joe Biden at the helm and imperiled by his immigration policies and the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan would've spent that $20 billion or so protecting itself, and its people. Not endangering and impoverishing them.

As Rucker wrote in a post to X, "The most important word in American politics going forward is #Invasion. We are being invaded by tens of thousands of military-aged men every single day. Democrats are doing everything they can to help the invaders. Republicans, even with the limited power they have, are doing nothing."