Reuters takes a whack at report issued yesterday..
Study: Illegal immigrants boost economy, drain services ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750234/posts
Posted by txroadkill
On News/Activism ^ 12/07/2006 8:47:26 PM PST · 33 replies · 577+ views
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram ^ | Dec. 07, 2006 | JOHN MORITZ
You mean, they didn't call it 'the non partisan Pew Hispanic Center'? Somebody's slipping. Sheesh.
Social Security is still viable only because of the hundreds of thousands of illegals paying federal and state taxes on phoney social security numbers.
This is free money to the government and that is the ONLY reason too many local, county, state and the federal governments don't give a damn about enforcing existing laws.
I guess it's OK as long as the economy is booming.
As a Statistics Phd. told us when we began the year long class:"Figures don't lie--but liars can figure"
These numbers are BULLS**T.
Not included are medical care costs, Service (Police Fire) costs, and incarceration costs.
I wonder how many billions of those dollars come from the illegal drug trade?
Gap? Is that what they call not having to pay benefits to illegals?, or the wages citizens demand?, or SSI?, or workers comp?. That the gap?
Right. The GAP is in the pockets of REAL taxpayers: LEGAL citizens, immigrant or otherwise.
Our Government is PANDERING to BUSINESSES who hire illegals and thumbing their nose at citizens
I've just about had...enough.
"Carole Keeton Strayhorn"
She's either sadly mistaken or she's fudging the numbers for a job with the Perry Admin.
From http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/182250.php
"The Harris County Hospital District's unreimbursed costs of caring for illegal immigrants approached $100 million last year, a 77 percent increase in three years. "The costs are increasing because the population of undocumented immigrants is increasing and the cost of health care is rising," said hospital district spokesman Bryan McLeod. The unreimbursed costs rose from $55 million in 2002 to $97 million in 2005, the hospital district said in a report released Friday. Last year's figure represented 13 percent of the district's $760 million operating budget. The district treats about 300,000 patients annually, but lacks enough funds and facilities to care for all of the county's uninsured and underinsured residents, estimated to number between 800,000 and 1.2 million, McLeod said. Commissioner Steve Radack, who requested the report on the district's costs of treating undocumented immigrants, said county residents are shouldering a burden created by the federal government. The federal government doesn't prevent illegal immigration, but hardly reimburses local counties where the immigrants most frequently settle and use public health care facilities, he said. "The federal government allows people to come here illegally," Radack said. "Because of that the cost shouldn't fall on the local taxpayer." The district treated more than 57,000 illegal immigrants last year, at a cost of $128 million. The federal and state governments reimbursed about $28 million, and the patients themselves paid about $3 million. Over the past 11 years, the district has paid about $607 million in unreimbursed costs for treating undocumented immigrants. The district does not directly ask patients if they are in the country legally, but infers their status from other information gleaned during patient screenings, officials said.
That's just Harris county and just the hospital district. Imagine the cost of incarcerating, educating, housing, feeding, trials, jailing, covering uninsureds, on and on and on and on...... Now figure that for the entire state of Texas, $18 billion boost my A$$