Posted on 01/19/2005 8:56:57 PM PST by Dan12180
Federation for Immigration Reform
The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Californians: Executive Summary
Analysis of the latest Census data indicates that California's illegal immigrant population is costing the state's taxpayers more than $10.5 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration. Even if the estimated tax contributions of illegal immigrant workers are subtracted, net outlays still amount to nearly $9 billion per year. The annual fiscal burden from those three areas of state expenditures amounts to about $1,183 per household headed by a native-born resident.
This analysis looks specifically at the costs to the state for education, health care and incarceration resulting from illegal immigration. These three are the largest cost areas, and they are the same three areas analyzed in a 1994 study conducted by the Urban Institute, which provides a useful baseline for comparison ten years later. Other studies have been conducted in the interim, showing trends that support the conclusions of this report.
As this report will note, other significant costs associated with illegal immigration exist and should be taken into account by federal and state officials. But, even without accounting for all of the numerous areas in which costs associated with illegal immigration are being incurred by California taxpayers, the programs analyzed in this study indicate that the burden is substantial and that the costs are rapidly increasing.
The more than $10.1 billion in costs incurred by California taxpayers is composed of outlays in the following areas:
* Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in California and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Californians spend approximately $7.7 billion annually on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings. Nearly 15 percent of the K-12 public school students in California are children of illegal aliens.
* Health care. Uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state's illegal alien population amount to about $1.4 billion a year. * Incarceration. The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in California's prisons and jails amounts to about $1.4 billion a year (not including related law enforcement and judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration).
State and local taxes paid by the unauthorized immigrant population go toward offsetting these costs, but they do not come near to matching the expenses. The total of such payments can generously be estimated at about $1.6 billion per year.
The fiscal costs of illegal immigration do not end with these three major cost areas. The total costs of illegal immigration to the state's taxpayers would be considerably higher if other cost areas such as special English instruction, school feeding programs, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers were added into the equation.
While the primary responsibility for combating illegal immigration rests with the federal government, there are many measures that state and local governments can take to combat the problem. Californians should not be expected to assume this already large and growing burden from illegal immigration simply because businesses or other special interests benefit from being able to employ lower cost workers. The state must adopt measures to systematically collect information on illegal alien use of taxpayer-funded services and on where they are employed. Policies could then be pursued to hold employers financially accountable.
The state could also enter into a cooperative agreement with the federal government for training local law enforcement personnel in immigration law so that illegal immigrants apprehended for criminal activities may be turned over to immigration authorities for removal from the country. Similarly, local officials who have adopted "sanctuary" measures that shield illegal aliens from being reported to the immigration authorities should be urged to repeal them.
November 2004 http://www.fairus.org/
Did Dane ask the Mod who placed the key words?
These are honest questions since Dane or someone else could have after I saw the thread, in which case I wouldn't know.
Not sure if he "hit the abuse button", I do recall him mentioning it. Same as I did. I've yet to hit the abuse button...the Admin's pay close enough attention to these threads already, last thing they need is me pestering them to ban someone that doensn't share my beliefs. More often then not, the Open Borders Lobby makes my point for me. Why would I want them banned?
I just posted to the Moderator to ask a question. In that particular thread, the Moderator said he wouldn't be above exposing the individual that posted the keyword.
Your reply #8 is to the mod.
BTTT
Someone else brought the mod in and you just did the talking. Thanks for clearing that for me.
And, I care because??? We already help most of the world with some sort of monetary assistance, and THEY HATE US ANYWAY. HELLO!! Are you listening?? Let them stay in their own country and we will continue to assist them THERE!!
It's not without precedent in history that we can help those both here at home and those from other countries that want a better life here.
I personally don't give a rat's ass about taking care of ANYONE. I'm FED UP. America is MY country, and I'm tired of taking care of people who are criminals from other countries. WHO said WE have to share America with ANYONE??? We REWARD CRIMINALS by making them citizens??? Has it occurred to you that ALL terrorists in that amnesty will also be made citizens? How STUPID is that? Only a MORON would think that's a good idea! I'm typing REAL SLOW here, because I want you to understand that THEY want to kill YOU and YOUR FAMILY! WAKE UP!!!
Eliminate all welfare?
Including the subsidies to farmers, the $10 Billion to the Tobacco farmers. Good Idea!
I am not against any one race immigrating I am against anyone who chooses to break our laws to enter the country.
For if we truly are a people of hope, we welcome immigrants with the knowledge that the benefits and advantages conferred by immigration will far outweigh the costs and pains. Our attitude toward immigration cannot be informed solely, or even primarily, by base economic considerations; our attitude toward immigration must ultimately turn on our belief in our future and ourselves"
Drama queen. Your attitude towards immigration seems to be the base liberal multicult balkanization variety. The illegal horde coming now doesn't want to assimilate. Divided we'll fall.
Don't expect the taxpayer to subsidize your cheap labor.
I don't. I know most of these people will work 10 times harder than you and be more productive. They'll only add to this society.
And I can insure you it was not me who put the keywords(Danesucks etc.etc) in the below thread.
Quite funny how sensitive you all(tancredo worshippers)(i.e 1_Inch_Group) are when the tables are turned.
I didn't, I basically said on reply #113 of the thread linked on reply #52 of this thread that the personal attacks via key words didn't bother me.
I believe the article referred to ILLEGAL immigration.
They have also started stalking on unrelated threads. I know of two examples, there may be more.
I know most of these people will work 10 times harder than you and be more productive.
In other words your attitude toward immigration is primarily a base economic consideration with some multi-cultist social engineering thrown in as a peripheral benefit.
You're wrong, but I suspect that won't stop you.
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