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How about the cost that illegal aliens in the U.S. impose on us.

For education-medical-incarceration costs (all state studies by FAIR – Federation for American Immigration Reform):

North Carolina (2009 study): $1.2 billion dollars annually
Georgia (2008 study): $1.6 billion dollars annually
Colorado (2008 study): $1.1 billion dollars annually
Illinois (2007 study): $3.5 billion dollars annually
Tennessee (2007 study): $285 million annually
Iowa (2007 study): $240 million dollars annually
New York (2006 study): $5.1 billion dollars annually
Florida: (2006 study): $4.3 billion dollars annually
New Jersey (2006 study): $2.1 billion dollars annually
Texas (2005 study): $4.7 billion dollars annually
California (2004 study): $10.5 billion dollars annually
Arizona (2004 study): $1.3 billion dollars annually

All in all, the presence of illegal aliens in the U.S. is estimated to cost the country in excess of $100 billion dollars annually.

Keep in mind that the costs cited above includes only expenditures for education, emergency medical care and incarceration. The costs would be significantly higher if expenditures on other programs such as special English instruction, law enforcement/courts, translators, assistance for public housing, food stamps, welfare payments, etc. were included. Other factors not considered in the reports are job losses by citizens to illegal aliens and the depression of wages in the construction, landscaping, assembly, food processing and service sectors that most illegal aliens are employed in.

Zeezil is an alipac regular.
His group as well as FAIR, NumbersUSA and others have been listed by the ADL as racist Hate groups. Typical that these groups support the likes of Arpaio.

It is long past the time when advocates for foreign
nationals illegally in the USA can use "newspeak" words
like "racist" and"hate" and have any effect now that
Mexico's Agenda to create a Spanish speaking
Illegal Mexican Nation within the borders of the USA
has been revealed !!
numbersusa.com
capsweb.org

This ought to make the racist group LaRaza choke. Go sheriff Joe. Turn back the invading tide of illegal aliens so Americans can get jobs to feed their families.

Gees what do you expect from a Congress that confirms a tax evader to an appointment with the treasury no less. They want the Hispanic/Latino vote and don't care what is costs the American citizen in crime, disease, education and healthcare. No to mention or national language.

Send the lawbreaker leeches home with their achor babies who should not profit from the crime of their parents with citizenship.

It isn't hate, it is not wanting to beforced to take care of unwanted invaders

zeezil get your information correctly, its about the entire Nation.

Illegal immigrants paying more taxes than you think

Eight million illegals pay Social Security, Medicare and income taxes. Denying public services to people who pay their taxes is an affront to America’s bedrock belief in fairness. But many “pull-up-the-drawbridge” politicians want to do just that when it comes to illegal immigrants.

The fact that illegal immigrants pay taxes at all will come as news to many Americans. A stunning twothirds of illegal immigrants pay Medicare, Social Security and personal income taxes.

Yet, nativists like Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., have popularized the notion that illegal aliens are a colossal drain on the nation’s hospitals, schools and welfare programs — consuming services that they don’t pay for.

In reality, the 1996 welfare reform bill disqualified illegal immigrants from nearly all meanstested government programs including food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid and Medicare-funded hospitalization.

The only services that illegals can still get are emergency medical care and K-12 education. Nevertheless, Tancredo and his ilk pushed a bill through the House criminalizing all aid to illegal aliens — even private acts of charity by priests, nurses and social workers.

Potentially, any soup kitchen that offers so much as a free lunch to an illegal could face up to five years in prison and seizure of assets. The Senate bill that recently collapsed would have tempered these draconian measures against private aid.

But no one — Democrat or Republican — seems to oppose the idea of withholding public services. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law that requires everyone who gets Medicaid — the government-funded health care program for the poor — to offer proof of U.S. citizenship so we can avoid “theft of these benefits by illegal aliens,” as Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., puts it. But, immigrants aren’t flocking to the United States to mooch off the government.

According to a study by the Urban Institute, the 1996 welfare reform effort dramatically reduced the use of welfare by undocumented immigrant households, exactly as intended. And another vital thing happened in 1996: the Internal Revenue Service began issuing identification numbers to enable illegal immigrants who don’t have Social Security numbers to file taxes.

One might have imagined that those fearing deportation or confronting the prospect of paying for their safety net through their own meager wages would take a pass on the IRS’ scheme. Not so. Close to 8 million of the 12 million or so illegal aliens in the country today file personal income taxes using these numbers, contributing billions to federal coffers.

No doubt they hope that this will one day help them acquire legal status — a plaintive expression of their desire to play by the rules and come out of the shadows. What’s more, aliens who are not self-employed have Social Security and Medicare taxes automatically withheld from their paychecks.

Since undocumented workers have only fake numbers, they’ll never be able to collect the benefits these taxes are meant to pay for. Last year, the revenues from these fake numbers — that the Social Security administration stashes in the “earnings suspense file” — added up to 10 percent of the Social Security surplus.

The file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year. Beyond federal taxes, all illegals automatically pay state sales taxes that contribute toward the upkeep of public facilities such as roads that they use, and property taxes through their rent that contribute toward the schooling of their children.

The non-partisan National Research Council found that when the taxes paid by the children of low-skilled immigrant families — most of whom are illegal — are factored in, they contribute on average $80,000 more to federal coffers than they consume. Yes, many illegal migrants impose a strain on border communities on whose doorstep they first arrive, broke and unemployed.

To solve this problem equitably, these communities ought to receive the surplus taxes that federal government collects from immigrants. But the real reason border communities are strained is the lack of a guest worker program.

Such a program would match willing workers with willing employers in advance so that they wouldn’t be stuck for long periods where they disembark while searching for jobs. The cost of undocumented aliens is an issue that immigrant bashers have created to whip up indignation against people they don’t want here in the first place.

With the Senate having just returned from yet another vacation and promising to revisit the stalled immigration bill, politicians ought to set the record straight: Illegals are not milking the government. If anything, it is the other way around.

Zeezil.....Do you possibly have the link to that report and could you post it please? I would like to post it on my news blog.