Migrant crisis cost $150 billion in 2023, with crisis zones having to cut police, fire and services to cover costs: report

FAITH CHECK: Does it shock you know that God created borders? God also wants us to care for the sojourner - the immigrant. But nowhere does God say invite and pay for tens of millions of people to illegally migrate into your country. You can't stuff millions of people into an unprepared and unsuspecting city and not expect the infrastructure to be strained and costs to skyrocket. Now imagine having to pay for it.

• Deuteronomy 32: 8 "When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel."
  

The eye-watering financial cost of the migrant crisis hit $150 billion last year and is causing devastating consequences for residents of hard-hit cities struggling to cope with the influx, The Post has learned.

Of that figure, calculated by Washington DC-based non-profit Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), $67 billion came from the federal government, but the majority of the burden was shouldered by states and local governments.

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