The Incentivisation of the Federal Budget for Illegal Immigration, By Charles Taylor (Florida)
The Breitbart article "Elon Musk: Democrats Use the Federal Budget to Encourage Illegal Migration," reports on Elon Musk's claim that Democrats leverage taxpayer funds to promote illegal immigration for political gain. This is but one more piece of evidence of the destructive political power of the Left:
The Breitbart article centres on Elon Musk's assertion, made as leader of the White House's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), that Democrats strategically use federal funds to incentivise illegal immigration. Musk tweeted on February 17, 2025, "The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters." He labels this a "truth," suggesting a deliberate scheme to bolster Democratic electoral power.
The article details Musk's evidence: under President Joe Biden, Democrats allocated at least $30 billion to facilitate the entry of approximately 9 million migrants via the southern border, alongside legal inflows of 1 million annually and another 1 million contract workers through visa programs like H-1B and H-2A. This spending, Musk argues, diverts resources from American citizens—such as Social Security or disaster relief—to support illegal migrants with housing, healthcare, and transportation, exemplified by FEMA's alleged budget depletion. The article ties this to a broader demographic shift, citing outlets like The Washington Post and The New York Times admitting that mass immigration could secure a "permanent Democrat political majority" by altering the electorate via the census and Electoral College.
Musk's role in DOGE, tasked with slashing government waste, frames his critique as part of a reform agenda. The article contrasts Democratic denials—e.g., DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling the notion "preposterous"—with their open support for migration, suggesting a hidden agenda. It also notes Musk's nuanced stance: while opposing illegal inflows, he favours H-1B visa workers for his companies, a point critics use to question his consistency.
Musk's claim withstands scrutiny through economic, political, and practical lenses, offering a compelling case that Democrats exploit federal budgets to encourage illegal migration, with plausible motives and outcomes.
Economically, the numbers align with Musk's accusation. The $30 billion figure cited in the article matches estimates from web sources like Breitbart's own immigration coverage (March 14, 2025), which details spending on migrant processing, NGO contracts, and welfare-like benefits, e.g., $600 million bimonthly to one NGO. Social media sentiment highlights specific diversions: "Social Security funds siphoned for illegals" and "FEMA's luxury hotels" (Zero Hedge, October 2024), corroborated by reports of FEMA's depleted budget post-Hurricane Helene. This redirection prioritises migrants over citizens, a tangible misuse of taxpayer funds that Musk flags as deliberate.
Politically, the voter-base theory holds weight. The article's reference to demographic shifts tilting toward a Democratic majority aligns with historical precedent—e.g., the 1986 IRCA amnesty boosting Democratic strongholds (NYT, retrospective, 2016). A growing migrant population, legalised or not, inflates blue-state representation by 2030. Democrats' resistance to DOGE's entitlement fraud probes (Breitbart, February 18, 2025) suggests fear of exposing this pipeline, why else oppose transparency unless it threatens a strategic asset? The 2024 election upset, where migrant communities backed Trump (Breitbart, March 16, 2025), only underscores the stakes, not the intent.
Practically, the infrastructure supports Musk's narrative. NGOs, funded by billions in federal grants (Fox News, February 5, 2025), ferry migrants into the U.S., while policies like New York's free hotels or California's Medi-Cal for illegals act as magnets. This isn't accidental—Biden's border chief Mayorkas oversaw a system that processed 9 million entries, dwarfing legal channels (Breitbart, February 18, 2025). Elites live far from these impacts, hinting at a calculated disconnect. Musk's DOGE findings, e.g., locking out OPM bureaucrats (Breitbart, February 1, 2025), could unearth more, justifying his outrage.
Counterarguments falter under scrutiny. Democrats claim humanitarian duty, citing the Good Samaritan (American Thinker, February 16, 2025), but scripture limits personal mercy, not national policy—Leviticus 19:33 doesn't mandate open borders. Mayorkas's "preposterous" rebuttal rings hollow against $30 billion in receipts, and economic benefits (e.g., labour growth) ignore wage suppression for Americans (Zero Hedge, March 14, 2025).
Musk's argument, as reported by Breitbart, stands as a defensible indictment: Democrats wield federal budgets to lure illegal migrants, securing future voters at citizens' expense. Economic data, political incentives, and operational evidence back this, outweighing establishment denials. The birth dearth crisis (Zero Hedge, February 17, 2025) amplifies the stakes, migration as a stopgap could collapse civilisation if it's a partisan ploy, not a solution. Musk's DOGE mission exposes this, making his case not just plausible but urgent, a clarion call to rethink who the budget truly serves.
The same lesson applies even more so to more socialist jurisdiction such as Australia.
"Democrats use taxpayer funds to attract millions of illegal immigrants, says Elon Musk, leader of the White House's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
"The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters. " Musk tweeted on Feb 17, amid rising Democratic denunciation of his investigations into government waste and waste.
"That's what it's all about," he said, adding "Truth."
Under President Joe Biden, Democrats spent at least $30 billion to import roughly nine million migrants, mostly via the southern border.
That inflow of nine million southern migrants was in addition to the legal inflow of about 1 million migrants per year, plus the inflow of about 1 million blue-collar and white-collar contract workers, via a complex variety of half-hidden visa programs such as the H-1B, J-1, TN, H-2B, and H-2A programs.
Meanwhile, Americans' birth rates are dropping as more young people scramble to find decent jobs, spouses, and housing, aid Biden's massive inflow of migrants. In 2024, Americans gave birth to roughly 3.5 million children, as illegal migrants birth to another 400,000 kids who automatically gained U.S. citizenship.
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The pro-migration spending under Biden included $22.6 billion distributed to a wide variety of Democrat-aligned non-profit groups via the Department of Health and Human Services. The funding was unveiled by a group called OpenTheBooks. Much additional funding was distributed via Biden's pro-migration Department of Homeland Security and his pro-globalism Department of State.
That inflow is adding more government-dependant, Democratic-voting immigrants to the nation's voting rolls.
The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Axios, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal have all admitted that rapid demographic shifts spurred by mass immigration are tilting the nation toward a permanent Democrat political majority.
The 2024 election defeat was especially shocking to Democrats because many migrant communities voted for President Donald Trump's economic policies, which include his curbs on the inflow of wage-cutting migrant workers.
Yet Democrats deny they are using the government funding to change the nation's demographics and politics, even as they freely admit to favoring more migration. "The notion … that we intend to allow illegal immigration is nothing short of preposterous," Biden's border chief Alejandro Mayorkas told a Senate hearing in 2024.
Instead, Democrats justify their pro-migration policies with a variety of claims.
Mayorkas repeatedly said he favored "equity" between foreign migrants and Americans. His border policy is "all about achieving equity, which is really the core founding principle of our country."
The ideological support for migration is often surrounded by contempt for ordinary Americans. For example, pro-migrati0n policies allow the Democrats' college-graduate progressives to feel good when sneering at the vast majority of ordinary Americans who rely on borders to help govern their own country.
"I'm all for just like, open the f… border," Ohio activist Kevin Oyakawa allegedly told a journalist in October 2024, adding:
I don't give a sh*t about who comes in here — we don't need Border Patrol. But the issue with even talking about immigration here in Ohio is that it's a losing issue for Democrats here for no f**king reason other than people's pure racism."
The ideological support for more migration is obligatory among Democrats, says Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. "De facto open[-borders] immigration is a litmus test issue now on the left," he told Breitbart News.
Democrats also claim migration is good for the economy — even though it reduces ordinary Americans' wages and productivity.
In 2022, for example, Mayorkas said:
We look to our partner to the north that has a much more nimble immigration system that can be retooled to the needs at the moment. For example, Canada is in need of 1 million workers and they have agreed that in 2023, they will admit 1.4 million … immigrants to fill that labor need that Canadians themselves cannot. We are stuck in antiquated laws that do not meet our current [business] needs. And they haven't been working for many, many years.
"Now, more than ever, we're short of workers," Senl Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at a Hill press conference in 2022, adding:
We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we're going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and all of them — because our ultimate goal is to help the Dreamers [illegals who were brought in by their parents] get a path to citizenship for all 11 million — or however many undocumented there are here [emphasis added].
The inflow of migrants is good for major investors and Wall Street because it inflates the stock market by reducing wages, raising rents, boosting consumer sales, and reducing pressure on companies to invest in high-tech workplace machinery.
But migration is also good for the government. For example, Democratic-aligned bureaucrats in government also profit from the inflow of poor migrants who need welfare and economic support. Similarly, the arrival of new groups of foreign children ensures that Democratic-run schools and their unions can hire additional teachers, translators, and aid workers."
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