Posted on 08/29/2003 3:10:21 PM PDT by AZ GRAMMY
Immigration in Dollar$ and Common Sense
The below information, on both legal and illegal immigration, was compiled from various sources. The sources differ somewhat in their numbers, but overall, paint an disturbing picture of perilous blows dealt to the country’s staggering economy by runaway immigration.
Two acronyms are used frequently in the brief omnibus.
CIS (Center for Immigration Studies) ( http://cis.org/index.cgi) Washington, DC
FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) (http://www.fairus.org/) Washington DC
J. Zane Walley
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During 1996, approximately 2.3 million predominantly low-skill American workers were displaced from their jobs due to the continued heavy influx of immigrant workers since 1970. Taxpayers paid more than $15.2 billion in public assistance for those displaced workers in 1996, including Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), unemployment compensation, and food stamps. Dr. Donald Huddle, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rice University
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In the past 21/2 years, the U.S. economy has lost 3 million private-sector jobs and unemployment has risen to 6.1 percent. In Indiana alone, 122,600 jobs disappeared. Yet the legal-and illegal-immigrant pipeline keeps pumping into communities across America, presenting challenges for towns unaccustomed to large-scale immigration and a country that has no guidebook for dealing with the cultural, social and economic changes wrought by these shifts in demographics. The San Diego (Calif.) Union Tribune,
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Mass immigration costs American workers $133 billion per year in wage depression and job loss. Harvard Professor George Borjas
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Immigrant households consume between $11 billion and $20 billion more in public services than they pay in taxes each year. The National Academy of Sciences 1997
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We now have nine to 13 million persons residing illegally in the U.S.
Co. Rep. Tom Tancredo
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There are an estimated 8 million illegal aliens in the country, but there are no figures on how many are employed. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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The nearly 26 million legal and illegal immigrants settling in the United States since 1970 cost taxpayers a net $69 billion in 1997 alone, in excess of taxes those immigrants paid. This represents a cost of $260 in additional taxes paid by each U.S. resident or $1,030 in additional taxes paid by each family of four. This cost is a substantial increase over the net immigration costs of $65 billion in 1996, $51 billion ins 1994, $44 billion in 1993, and $43 billion in 1992. Dr. Donald Huddle, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rice University
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Immigration in the 1990s has reduced the wages of American workers without a high school education by an estimated 5 percent. The workers affected are already the lowest-paid, comprising a large share of the working poor and those trying to move from welfare to work. This reduction in wages for the unskilled has likely reduced prices for consumers by only an estimated .08 to .2 percent in the 1990s. CIS
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The net current fiscal burden (taxes paid minus services used) imposed on all levels of government by immigrant households nationally is estimated to range from $11.4 billion to $20.2 billion annually. This fiscal drain is larger than the $1 billion to $10 billion benefit estimated to accrue to natives from having immigrants in the labor market. CIS
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Some 2 million jobs have been lost across the country in the past two years, and currently 8.2 million Americans are unemployed. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Almost every state has a budget crisis. The federal deficit is headed onward $500 billion.. One in every seven manufacturing jobs, 2.5 million, has vanished. Now, white-collar jobs are being lost to Asia, as American companies use satellites to communicate instantly with their new back offices -- in India. Pat Buchanan
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During the 1990s, the Clinton administration substantially bolstered enforcement at the border. But Congress and the White House allowed laws against the deliberate hiring of illegal workers to go unenforced. Employers across the country signed up the newcomers, who took low pay, asked few questions and hesitated to demand fair treatment because they had entered the country illegally. The hiring of illegal workers became a multibillion-dollar black market. CIS
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Immigrants are a sufficiently large proportion of workers to exert a downward pressure on wages. National Research Council
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It costs states more than $7.4 billion a year to educate illegal aliens, enough to buy a computer for every junior high student nationwide." FAIR
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California spends the most $2.2 billion to educate illegal immigrant children. Ranking second and third, respectively, are Texas and New York. FAIR
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Texas spends $1.03 billion a year to educate children who are not in the country legally. FAIR
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The U.S., without blinking an eye, absorbs between 300,000 and 500,000 new illegal immigrants every year. Fox New
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"An immigration system that can't account for 400,000 illegal aliens awaiting deportation, puts 80,000 criminal aliens back out on our streets, and tries to carry out its job with just 2,000 employees to enforce the law, is reflective of a system that is badly broken and desperately needs help," Rep. Charlie Norwood, Georgia
Add this statistic:
"We at the Center for Immigration Studies estimate that the average Mexican immigrant will use $55,200 more in public services during his lifetime than he pays in taxes."
Typical of the Mexican government - huge sense of entitlement, pushy, disgusting. Illegal aliens should ALL be deported, they're sucking American taxpayers dry while George Bush sits back and watches the show.
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