Illegal Immigrants cost us approx. $338 BILLION per year:
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Monday, March 03, 2008
Illegal Immigrants Cost the U.S. More Than the Iraq War
The URL's are included for verification of the following facts:
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
http://tinyurl.com/zob77
I'll bold my comments:
This link refers to IMMIGRANTS, not necessarily ILLEGALs. So we can deduct $22 billion? That leaves us $316 billion.
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
Actually, if you take time to read the article it says
Our findings show that many of the preconceived notions about the fiscal impact of illegal households turn out to be inaccurate. In terms of welfare use, receipt of cash assistance programs tends to be very low, while Medicaid use, though significant, is still less than for other households. Only use of food assistance programs is significantly higher than that of the rest of the population. Also, contrary to the perceptions that illegal aliens don't pay payroll taxes, we estimate that more than half of illegals work "on the books." On average, illegal households pay more than $4,200 a year in all forms of federal taxes. Unfortunately, they impose costs of $6,950 per household.
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illegal households already impose only about 46 percent as much in costs on the federal government as other households. Thus, the amount of money that can be saved by curtailing their use of public services even further is probably quite limited.
But I'm going to give you this one. So we're still at $316 billion.
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
From your link:
In terms of welfare use, receipt of cash assistance programs tends to be very low, while Medicaid use, though significant, is still less than for other households.
So that's another $2.5 billion, leaving us with $313.5
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
Link doesn't work. Subtract another $12 Billion. We're at $301.5.
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html
First Lou Dobbs is an enertainer. He makes his living bashing immigrants. Second, I didn't find this little "fact" in the transcript when I scanned through it. So now we're at $$284.5 billion.
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html
More Lou Dobs. Now we're at $283.5.
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html
Link doesn't work. Since you don't put a $$ figure on this one, I'm going to take $100Billion. How's that? Now we're at $183.5 Billion.
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
Link doesn't work. Are you beginning to get the idea? Now we're down to $93.5 Billion.
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html
Another Lou Dobbs. And again, I couldn't find a reference for this figure. So now we're down to a negative figure!
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html
Lou Dobbs again. He's still making a good living bashing immigrants. You don't put a price on this....again.
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report.
http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
I think you should talk to the people who were in charge of Congress and the White House in 1995 about this problem. We have laws in place; they simply have refused to enforce them.
12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
Since the government hasn't chosen to mass deport, this figure is irrelavant to your original claim that illegals cost us $338 billion a year.
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
Which means what? They paid taxes on much of it, payroll and social security.
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States'.
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
Again your link doesn't work. What a shock!
Total cost is a whooping... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!
Nowhere near that. As best I can tell, we're in the positive figures. You're pretty sad, Mike. And this last one is even worse:
Snopes is provided for doubters:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigrat ... merica.asp
Everyone should go to this link and see how it proves everything Mike has claimed.