Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Hundreds of Billions

Judicial Watch ^ | April 21, '08 | staff

[T.L.Sink]

Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers $346 billion annually and, besides the well-documented areas of education, jail and medical care, the money is being spent on manpower for overwhelmed government agencies. A renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of illegal immigration and published numerous reports and articles, recently published an alarming alarming book on the subject. In his book, Edwin Rubenstein exposes the GARGANTUAN COSTS of illegal aliens. The book supports previous reports of U.S. employers of illegal aliens raking in billions thanks to the cheap labor while American taxpayers subsidize the ordeal. U.S. prisons are also overwhelmed with illegals with 147,000 illegal aliens in local jails, 74,000 in state prisons and 46,000 in federal prisons. About 28% of all federal prisoners are illegal immigrants, and the cost to taxpayers is about $5.4 billion a year. Many are repeat offenders that get released into communities rather than deported. Numerous such cases have made headlines because the illegal immigrants had previous convictions yet were released to commit murder, rape and scores of drunk-driving offenses. These figures DON'T even INCLUDE the billions of dollars U.S. taxpayers dish out annually to provide free educations and medical care for those in the country illegally.

[IM2MAD]

Here are some details with links. Read em and weep:

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot spe ak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers. http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP TS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

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 the US .
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and
marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, “estimated 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.”
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States “.
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

Total cost is a whopping... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!

[purpleraine]

Calif: $14 billion deficit and $10 bill in services to illegals. Total federal and state spending in Cal: $200 bill. Total services to illegals: $25 billion.

They're now planning toll lanes on FREEWAYS in LA, roads which were paid for by gas taxes. Emergency rooms have been closing. School funding is being reduced (it can't be all bad), prisons bursting at the seams with illegals, and on and on. But every Cal dem says, no need to look at illegals.

[T.L.Sink]

Thanks for all that information, alarming and depressing as it is! Regards,

[apocalypto]

Yet how John McCain, Hillary, and Barack Hussein Obama love the illegals. Makes no sense unless . . . You decide.

[T.L.Sink]

I knew things were bad out there after I read some of those dire statistics in Pat Buchanan’s book “State of Emergency,” in which he made a very convincing case that California was rapidly becoming a Third World state. He also mentioned how productive people were leaving the state because of confiscatory taxes, crime and the illegal alien invasion. I knew Schwarzenegger wasn’t a social conservative but I thought at least he was fiscally responsible. Apparently, he’s now part of that problem. Welcome to Mexifornia! I heard about those tolls on Rush’s program. Are you able or desirous of relocating or are you in one of those increasingly rare civilized enclaves?

[purpleraine]

I believe the battle for Calif is lost. The legislature is all dem controlled, the the gov has lost his testesterone and now just wants to be popular. In San Francisco and LA they public officials openly flaunt their support of anything for illegals. And we don't have enough money to fix or add to highways, keep emergency rooms open and provide public education.

I'd move, but my hubby's family is all here and our grandchildren.