Posted on 10/05/2014 8:34:31 AM PDT by DBCJR
I, Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, "Mexican Visitor's Lament."
I interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, "Illegal aliens pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes. What happens to your country's economy if 20 million people go away?"
Hmmm, I thought, what would happen?
So I did my due diligence, buried my nose as a reporter into the FACTS I found below.
It's a good question... it deserves an honest answer. Over 80% of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America? The answers I found may surprise you!
In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again.
In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grandchilds would move back "home," mostly to Mexico. That would save Colorado an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.
Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.
Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67% dropout/flunk rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado. Denver's 4% unem ployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law, and English.
In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.
If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home,' the U.S. Economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers.
No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.
We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country.
In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the '18th Street Gang' would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!
Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens!
America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America 's economy which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt. $8.7 trillion debt!!!
At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act. Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country - brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.
Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11% of our greenhouse gases.
Over one million of Mexico's poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, California, in what the New York Times called, 'colonias' or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, roads, electricity, or any kind of sanitation.
The New York Times reported them to be America's new 'Third World' inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonials. (I've seen them personally in Texas and Arizona; it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.)
By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico. We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico. We already invite a million people into our country legally annually, more than all other countries combined. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation.
It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.
Interesting Statistics!
Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:
1. $14 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare to illegal aliens (that's Billion with a 'B')
3. $7.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they still cannot speak a word of English!
5. $27 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
6. $3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That's $1.2 Billion a year.
7. 28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
8. $190 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
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 t he US.
11. During the year 2005, there were 8 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from other terrorist countries. Over 10,000 of those were middle-eastern terrorists. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin, crack, guns, and marijuana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border.
12. The National Policy Institute, estimates 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.
13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $65 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin, to their families and friends.
14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!
Total cost a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !
We cannot totally discount the contribution to our economy that this pool of cheap labor provides BUT the case for slavery was argued on the same grounds. It did not make slavery right. Here we have sovereign laws on the books that our President refuses to enforce. That is wrong. Granting citizenship rights to people who break our laws to get here is wrong, especially when we take away such rights from citizens who break our laws.
This article posted also fails to address how warm and hardworking many of these illegal aliens can be. Nevertheless, the author of this post does address the influx of gang members, drug cartel associates, and other criminal element. To be sure, this is a small percentage of some otherwise good people. BUT that is what the Office of Immigration was created to do, weed out those bad elements.
Coming here illegally skirts that safeguard AND, in today's world, the threat of mass terrorism and deadly disease infestation presents a danger we ill-afford to ignore. Securing our borders is an IMMEDIATE MUST. However, this author fails to weigh the cost and complexities of rounding up 20 million illegals. So, round-up and deportation may be too prohibitive but why do we turn loose those who fall into law enforcement hands? That is indefensible.
I love the Mexican people. I encourage those who want to come here to get a work visa and do so. I encourage those who love America and are loyal to her to become citizens. We have legal procedures to accomplish both. Let us execute our laws, Mr. President.
Finally, the USA is one of two nations in the world with an idiotic law that states that if a baby is born within our borders, even if the mother is here illegally, it is a "natural born" citizen. That law needs to be repealed immediately, Congress.
Uh, they’d take their evil See-uh-Oh2 with them?
Vaya con Dios, muchahos.
I wouldn’t miss a thing. Get out of here and go back and straighten out your own sh!thole countries, leeches.
The only taxes paid by illegals (those that are working “on the books”) is Social Security and Medicare. But that is canceled out by them fraudulently claiming earned income credit which exceeds any tax withheld (most have none withheld). They also pay some sales taxes, but those are paid for by welfare benefits paid by real taxpayers. The only beneficiaries of their presence are greedy business owners and democrat politicians who use the body count to create fraudulent votes. In short, illegals are a net drain—and a big one—on the U.S. economy.
More jobs for American citizens
Cheaper housing?(less demand)
Thankfully they don’t run pizzerias !!!
Bye y’all ! Don’t come back ...ya hear !
Total cost a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !
That contribution is offset by the cost. Net loss. I say Adios Amigos.
Unmentioned, but pretty critical: millions of jobs open up for youth to get their first job, an important stepping stone into personal responsibility. Hence why liberals love illegals - without those first jobs, they continue the welfare state that gives them votes.
They wire their money back HOME and then fill the gap with welfare cash.
“Oh poor me.”
At least they admit Mexico has 20 million colonists illegally living in the United States.
Financial Chaos...The Scented Candle Lobby would fight deportation.
What a blessed day that would be for The United States of America!
It’d be a start.
What a glorious day that would be.
“What happens to your country’s economy if 20 million people go away?”
If those 20 million people occupy most of the low skills jobs, American poor and undereducated would be able to find jobs again.
Those 20 million would no longer be using our public schools, welfare, S-CHIP, public housing, social security, etc etc etc
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