The Cost of Illegal Immigration: Estimated $70 - to - $326.7 Billion Per Year

1. $Billions are spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year:
   • http://www.gao.gov/archive/1998/he98030.pdf (see page 5 of Government Accounting Office's report)
      
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 (running total=$2.2 Billion):
   • http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
      
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens (running total=$4.7 Billion):
   • 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 speak a word of English! (running total=$16.7 Billion):
   • http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_researchf6ad
      
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies (running total=$33.7 Billion):
   • http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_researchf6ad
   • http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp (70% of women giving birth at Parkland Memorial hospital in Dallas, TX., are illegal aliens)
   • http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=bLJxmJZXgNI  (<--- Please watch this video; this is in Florida, but it is happening in most (if not all) U.S. states, and you are paying for it)
      
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens (running total=$36.7 Billion):
   • http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
   • http://www.gao.gov/htext/d05646r.html  (a study of 55,322 illegal aliens in 3 states (TX, CA, AZ) from 1947-to-2005; 5992 homicides; average of 13 offenses per illegal alien)
   • 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, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border:  Homeland Security Report:  http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf
   • 29% percent of all persons incarcerated in Federal Prisons are illegal aliens
     • http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
     • http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters0b9c
     • The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's 2.5 times (or more) than that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the U.S.:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html  (press CTRL-F and search for:  two and a half times)
     • http://www.one-simple-idea.com/BorderSecurity.htm#Homicide  (lowest crime rate estimate of at least 2 times higher than the norm).
                  
7. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for social services paid for by the American taxpayers (running total=$126.7 Billion):
   • http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
      
8. $74.9 Billion to $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens (running total=$201.6 -to- $326.7 Billion):
   • $74.9 Billion = ($6.75 per hour x 40 hours per week x 52 weeks per year x 2.3 Million displaced American workers per year)
   • http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
        
9. 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://One-Simple-Idea.com/NPI_Deportation_Cost.pdf

   However, that is a theoretical cost, and most of that sort of deportation is unnecessary. So, we won't add that cost to the total.  If existing laws were enforced to prosecute and stop illegal employers, and restrict illegal aliens from receiving welfare, education, and other tax-payer funded services, most illegal aliens would self deport, with no more magnets that attract illegal aliens to the U.S.  Unfortunately, most politicians refuse to enforce existing laws, despite the majority of American citizens that recognize the enormity of the problem and want existing laws enforced.  The solution is not mass deportation.  The solution is to prosecute the greedy illegal employers, and secure the borders.
    

10. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 to $80 Billion in remittances back to their countries of origin:
    • http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

    However, that out-flow of money would end if the illegal immigration problem was resolved. Therefore, we won't add that cost to the total.
     

11. By the most conservative estimates, the cost of illegal immigration is at least $70 Billion per year, and that does not even include the untold cost of crime by illegal aliens:
    • http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecentersf134   (press CTRL-F and search for:  at least $70 Billion)
    • At the least, that is over $1.4 Billion per state.  However, the border states are the hardest hit.  Many northern states don't understand the problem, but at the current rate, they will before too much longer. Then those northern states will finally understand what the border states already know all too well. 
       
12. The untold cost of crime;  crimes that should have never occurred:
    • http://VictimsOfIllegalAliens.com , http://www.FamilySecurityMatters.org  
    • http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html#Illegals
    • http://ImmigrationsHumanCost.org
    •   http://One-Simple-Idea.com/PoliceVictimsOfIllegalAliens1.htm  (Police killed by illegal aliens)

    This cost of crime is unknown, but how do we put a price on the lives of so many people who have been murdered, maimed, and damaged by illegal aliens?   
    Race is not the issue. 
    Claims of racism is a lame obfuscation (of many) to distract from the real costs (which are most certainly high, regardless of the real value somewhere between $70 Billion and $345.7 Billion).

Total Estimated Annual Cost:  $70 Billion -to- $326.7 Billion
    (and more, if the untold cost of crime by illegal aliens is included).

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