How much do illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers? “$11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. $2.2 billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. $2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. $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! The total K-12 school expenditure for illegal immigrants costs the states nearly $12 billion annually, and when the children born here to illegal aliens are added, the cost more than doubles to $28.6 billion. $3 million dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. 30% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens convicted of a felony AFTER entering the country illegally. The cost of incarceration of illegal aliens in state prisons has also risen rapidly $90 billion dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. $200 billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that is 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 U.S. During the year of 2005, there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern border, and 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: 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." In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION (tax free dollars) in remittances back to their countries of origin. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States". Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens.” (Salley, Jack)
Numerous employers in the United States are in favor of illegal immigration because the illegal immigrants are willing to work for much less pay than an American citizen. Those employers say that the immigrant is taking a job that American workers do not want and that the immigrant workforce is vital to earn profit in a competitive market. If these employers were forced to replace the immigrant workforce with higher paid American workers than prices would reflect so and the consumer wouldn’t purchase their products. This would put many smaller companies out of business. The Catholic church supports illegal immigration and believes they have a right to be here. “They have sanctuary churches where they put basement — illegals in basements, and they feed them and they shelter them and they help them to get jobs and evade authorities.” (O’Reilly, Bill)
The last time I looked, unemployment at its highest in years and the Catholic church just wants to fill the seats and the collection plates of the church. There are plenty of empty seats in the churches of Mexico and plenty of plates to pass around. The employers in the United States that want to hire immigrant workers do it for only one reason, profit. If they can pay an illegal one-third of what they would have to pay an American citizen to do the same job and not have to pay benefits then they make more money. It is as simple as that.
The growing problem of illegal immigration has to be stopped and our borders must be secured soon or this will only get worse. If we spent the estimated $230 billion dollars it would cost to send all of the illegal immigrants home then increased border security, the United States government would save enough money to rid us of all the national debt in only a few years. Then that money could be put to good use in taking care of our own citizens. We could end poverty in the United States or re-fund social security. We could make college free to all of the American citizens that wanted to seek a higher education. We could even wipe out a large portion of the country’s poverty. I feel for the illegal immigrants in our country that just want a better life for themselves and their families but for me it is not worth risking our children’s financial future for their financial future.
Bibliography
Salley, Jack. "Financial Burden That Illegal Immigration Has on American Taxpayers". 2007. (October 20, 2007).
News, Fox. "The Catholic Church Gets Political on Illegal Immigration". 2006. The O'Reilly Factor. March 08 2007.
