Choose one or the other.
Posted on 04/05/2008 2:12:38 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
Immigration: As some experts tell Congress to fight a possible recession with more immigrants, a respected economist warns that immigration's costs are grossly underestimated — because the government won't study them.
The 70-page study was conducted by Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow Edwin S. Rubenstein.
Rubenstein found that each immigrant costs taxpayers more than $9,000, while every immigrant household of four costs $36,000 in taxes. That's far more than the $3,408 in 2007 dollars the National Research Council's 1997 "New Americans" study of federal, state and local government expenditures found immigrants to cost.
With more than 140 languages spoken in, for instance, Connecticut's schools, bilingual education requirements for immigrants are on track to becoming a crippling unfunded mandate imposed on states and school districts.
Of all prisoners in federal prisons, 27% are criminal aliens, he found, with a total cost of $1.5 billion. But that may be low-balling it.
Analyzing the rap sheets of 55,000 incarcerated illegal aliens in 2003, the Government Accountability Office found that the average criminal alien was arrested for 13 prior offenses, 12% of which were cases of murder, robbery, assault and sexually related crimes; only 21% were immigration offenses, the rest being felonies.
Washington has been paralyzed for many years on immigration policies because advocates of restricted immigration are routinely accused of nativism and racism.
Rubenstein's groundbreaking study, of which the facts above offer only a taste, suggests that Washington doesn't want to take a good look at the issue because the facts will spur the public to demand action to stop the hemorrhage of taxpayer money out-of-control immigration is causing.
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Cal $14 bill deficit and $10 bill in services to illegals.
Enjoy your cheap lettuce and lawn care because it comes with the cost of $9,000 higher taxes per year, per immigrant.
As some experts tell Congress to fight a possible recession with more immigrants
I know which publication I'd subscribe to, if I needed financial information.
It will take a bankrupt Social Security program to generate the needed outcry to stop the hemorrhaging the writer speaks of. When retires stop receiving their SS checks, the apathy will stop and people will not care if they are labeled racist or not.
Lets dont forget the loss a family suffers from the constant drunk driving (vehicular manslaughter)these illegals are involved in.
Naaah....everyone will get their SS..but the inflation rate will be so high you wont be able to buy a loaf of bread with it.....such is the nature of Fiat money ... http://www.321gold.com/fed/greenspan/1966.html
Take Greenspans word for it...its all part of the dirty little secret...
Wad I see the other———Dollar depreciated by 40% since W got elected?
I rest my case your Honor!
ping
I know a large number of real immigrants. They all spoke English when they got here. Most of them pay far more than $9,000 per annum in taxes.
I've known some illegal aliens as well. They don't make near that much usually.
Now, for the clincher, NONE of the real immigrants will ever be caught picking lettuce unless it's out of their own gardens. No one decides to go through the hell our legal immigration system puts people through for the privilege of picking lettuce!~
Guess you didn't.
Even gold doesn't beat food when it comes to the threat of starvation.
ping
“Of all prisoners in federal prisons, 27% are criminal aliens, he found, with a total cost of $1.5 billion. But that may be low-balling it. “
But, but Jeraldo says there are no criminals among the aliens!
>>But, but Jeraldo says there are no criminals among the aliens!<<
So does Juan Hernandez.
We need to crack down on illegals instead of continuing to give them incentive to come and to stay. Stop giving them money. Stop letting their kids go to public schools and eat free breakfast and lunch. Deny them healthcare. Stop giving “anchorbabies” citizenship. Enforce strict penalties and fines for the ones who are already here and then deport them.
If they can’t survive here, they’ll stop coming.
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