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OPINION:

Last month, I met a recent Ivy League graduate who devotes his computer-science skills to a Silicon Valley enterprise. He is bright and creative, and he speaks with a splash of a British accent. He wants nothing more than to thrive in the tech sector and, consequently, make America rich again.

Alas, this young man failed to score an H-1B visa when Customs and Immigration Services awarded them by lottery on March 27. Of 483,927 registrants, 85,000 received visas. But he was not one of them.

So, any day now, the Biden administration will take this highly educated, productive son of our closest ally and deport him. Back to Britain he will go with his American dreams delayed or destroyed.

Meanwhile, in bitter contrast to this Englishmans rejection, illegal aliens savor concierge service as they invade, overrun and occupy America.

On Aug. 5, three machine-gun-toting cartel members waltzed across the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas. The Border Patrol chased them, but they got away.

These thugs are armed and deadly, and they could be plotting evil anywhere in America.

On Aug. 8, some 200 illegal aliens stormed the border crossing at Brownsville, Texas. Rather than wait patiently, they swamped Border Patrol officers, breached the checkpoint, and dashed into the interior.

Who are they? Where are they? Who knows?

Over 100,000 illegal aliens have overpowered New York City since last spring. They clog the sidewalks outside and rooms inside the previously venerable Roosevelt Hotel, where bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians dazzled radio listeners with Auld Lang Syne on many New Years Eves.

Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has converted soccer fields on Randalls Island (in the East River) into a giant shelter for 2,000 illegals. Taxpayers starved for recreation and teenagers seeking team sports rather than trouble are out of luck.

This facility will cost $20 million per month, or $10,000 for each illegal alien, every month. How many U.S. citizens receive a staggering $120,000 in annualized welfare?

Madrid-based Marca.com estimated an average Americans yearly public assistance:

$13,200 in housing subsidies.

$8,346 in Medicaid.

$234.42 in food stamps.

$7,404 in Supplemental Security Income.

$418 for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

$2,411 in earned income tax credits.

This totals over $32,000. At least on Randalls Island, foreign citizens who barged into the United States cost taxpayers 373.7% of that amount.

This is repulsive.

Mr. Adams reckons that babysitting these illegals will cost Gotham taxpayers $12 billion by 2025. The long-term financial burden for these criminals is incalculable and excruciating.

While illegal aliens enjoy boutique hotels, low-income New Yorkers endure public housing projects. Rather than room service, they get rats and roaches. Instead of maid service, the New York City Housing Authoritys 528,105 tenants stomach $78 billion in deferred maintenance.

Equity?

Nope.

This unfairness is vulgar.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis, polio, leprosy and plague have cropped up in America. Doctors explain that these previously conquered diseases have reemerged thanks, in part, to illegal aliens who storm in without medical exams, a requirement for immigrant-visa applicants.

Meanwhile, according to Customs and Border Protection, 144,571 illegals invaded America in June. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,782,615 illegals in former President Donald Trumps final 29 months in power. In President Bidens first 29 months, they encountered an outrageous 5,606,785 illegals up a calamitous 215%.

Comparing the plight of these pampered illegals and the legal but spurned H-1B lottery loser, America has clearly devolved into Upside-downia.

So, this modest proposal might begin to turn America back into Right-Side-Upistan:

Grant H-1B visas to all applicants with employers ready to hire them. Then, deport just as many illegal aliens whose first act in America violated federal law by breaking in with neither papers nor permission.

The United States would harness the diligence, energy, and innovation of these legal aliens and unleash desperately needed justice upon an equal number of taxpayer-sucking illegals who invaded America.

In short, boot the illegal aliens. And may a million H-1Bs bloom.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. Aaron Cichon contributed research to this opinion piece.

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