As noted in previous
sections, the economic impact of illegal immigration covers a wide stratum,
including the collateral impact costs for crime, traffic accidents, education,
health care, and the infrastructure. While
the ADDENDUM of this report contains even more economic impacts, this report
focuses mainly on the personal carnage being committed by illegal aliens so
will only briefly visit some of the economic costs that you might no have
thought of or were unaware of the magnitude.
The following section,
SUMMARY OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE will put some of the economic costs in tabular
form making it easier for the reader to grasp the magnitude of how much saving
ten cents on a head of lettuce is actually costing us.
As detailed in Importing Poverty:
Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts the bottom line is that illegal immigration
brings in a tremendous number of poor, unskilled, and uneducated people along
with all their inherent problems.
As
noted in a KGTV report, Illegal Immigration Could
Cost Taxpayers Trillions, “The
influx of illegal immigrants has effectively "imported about 10 million
high school dropouts into the United States," said Robert Rector, a senior
research fellow in welfare and family issues for the Washington, D.C.-based
think tank.”
While
a smaller percentage than most countries, the US has our own resident poor and
uneducated to take care of and, as rich as the country is, we simply can not
support all the poor and uneducated who want to come here.
One can understand why
Mexicans, the largest component of illegal aliens, come to the U.S. In Mexico, they are typically paid only
$5.00 per day for their labor. When
wages for Mexican workers rise, the peso is conveniently devalued to keep
Mexico competitive with foreign countries like China and India. The owners of Mexican businesses often keep
their money in dollars in American banks and escape the devaluation of their
currency. Between that and the
thoroughly incompetent government, the common people are forever doomed to
poverty. Without a revolution in
Mexico, America is their only hope.
Unfortunately, the results of revolutions in countries to our south
generally are not good.
At this point it is worth noting that Mexico is not a
resource-poor country. Mile for mile,
it has natural resources that are among the richest in the world and it is a net
exporter of oil. (about 1.8
million barrels/day) It is, however, a corrupt country which is one of the
main reasons why there are so many poor people wanting to flee to the USA for
economic opportunities.
However, just being poor or
wanting to come here is not a valid reason to violate the national sovereignty
of the United States. If so, most of
the world would be here. While we
already devote considerable resources to our resident poor, the USA does not
have the resources for all the world’s poor.
An article in the San
Francisco Chronicle stated that Mexicans living in the U.S. send between $6 and
$8 billion back to their families every year, making them the third-biggest legitimate
force in the Mexican economy, after oil and tourism. Additionally, US taxpayers pay for all the direct and indirect
costs of “housing” the Mexican illegal aliens.
In essence, it’s an unofficial form of foreign aide. Mexico isn’t about to control its borders,
since Mexicans fleeing their country for work in the U.S. send plenty of money
back to their own country.
While the $6-8 billion
number is often quoted, a fairly recent story in The Brownsville Herald, Banks
seek stake in billions sent home, notes that some estimates place the
amount of dollars going south in 2006 will be $45 Billion, which was up from an
estimated $30 Billion in 2004.
Regardless of the amount,
all that money is leaving the US economy and not creating additional job
opportunities here. Additionally, all
that money represents jobs Americans used to have.
Have you heard about the Social Security Proposed Totalization agreement with Mexico? Me neither, before starting the
investigation for this report. Somehow
it neglected to get reported in our local paper and TV news.
As reported by Bruce Barton in Totalization Sell-Out: What You
Don't Know will Cost You:
“…the Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration (Jo Anne Barnhart) and her Mexican counterpart concluded the U.S.-Mexican Totalization Agreement. This agreement had to be in place prior to the administration’s second term and its all-out offensive for Social Security reform. This agreement would allow illegal aliens working in the U.S. to qualify for Social Security benefits with as few as six coverage credits, as opposed to the 40 now required of American workers.
Additionally, illegal workers could qualify for partial benefits after only 18 months (working illegally and with a false identity), while the American worker would still have to work 10 years in order to vest in the program. Lastly, families and dependents of illegal workers would be entitled to benefits as dependents and survivors, even if not residing in the U.S.
…The Social Security Administration’s estimate is that only about 50,000 Mexican workers (both legal and illegal) will enter the program in its first year at a cost of $78 million. This ignores the fact that presently there are an estimated 5 to 6 million undocumented Mexicans now in the American workforce. In 2004, the SSA did a study and determined that there were up to 800,000 mis-matched social security accounts, many of which were workers using non-work social security cards, or worse, using stolen social security numbers.
Meanwhile, estimates of the SSA are that by 2050 only 300,000 Mexican workers in the U.S. would be in the system at a cost projection of $650 million annually.
Among its negative findings, the GAO summarized its report
this way: “Under the Social Security
Act, all earnings from employment in the United States count towards earning
social security benefits, regardless of the lawful presence of the worker,
his or her citizenship status, or country of residence. Immigrants [both legal and otherwise]
become entitled to benefits from unauthorized work if they can prove that the
earnings and related contributions belong to them. However, they cannot collect
such benefits unless [or until] they are either legally present in the
United States [hence the Administration’s Guest Worker Program], or
living in a country where SSA is authorized to pay them their benefits. [Hence
an SSA office in Mexico City] Mexico is such a country.”
This is so outrageous one would
think it was an urban legend being spread over the internet. Unfortunately, this one is true.
Also see Critics say
Social Security deal would give billions to Mexicans by Michelle Mittelstadt of the Houston Chronicle Washington
Bureau where she reports “Federal officials insist it would cost only $105
million for the first 5 years.”
Right. Only if the cost overruns
were deducted from their pay and Social Security. Oops, Congress and dimwitted bureaucrats are never held accountable
and Congress exempted themselves and all Federal employees from the Social
Security System.
They both have a MUCH BETTER retirement plan – funded by taxpayers of course.
To see what the The Senior
Citizens League (TSCL) says about it see the WND article, Social Security billions could go to
Mexicans, where the League notes:
"It
represents a sell-out of American workers and their families," the group's
analysis said. "Such a one-sided
pact with its enormous financial risks should never have been negotiated in the
first place."
Also see Totalization
is a Bad Idea, by Representative Ron Paul of Texas.
If you want to see an actual copy of the Totalization
Agreement, forced out of the Government bureaucracy by the TSCL by-the-way, go here. For some additional news, see: U.S.-Mexico
Pact Revealed: Billions to Non-citizens
In the opinion of this writer, such a scheme
almost dwarfs the irresponsibility of allowing unfettered illegal immigration. Where’s the AARP when we really need them?
In any case, a 2004 study from the Center for Immigration
Studies, The High Cost of Cheap
Labor - Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, was one of the
first to estimate the impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Based on Census Bureau data, the study
estimates that households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in
government services than they paid in taxes in 2002. These figures are only for the federal government; costs at the
state and local level are also significant.
The study also notes that if illegal aliens were given
amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow by nearly $29
billion. Note that number is only for
the direct costs and does not count all the indirect costs of the collateral
damage being inflicted.
If the Government says the deficit will grow by $29
billion, you can be confident that the actual amount will end up much
greater. In any case, just the
education costs are currently greater than that amount, however the politicians
conveniently ignore that most of those costs are borne by the states. Remember the government is an expert at
taking too much money from taxpayers in the first place and then making them
feel good about getting a portion of the taxes back in a “refund.” Hiding the true costs of illegal immigration
is a piece of cake.
At this point it is worth noting that Jonathan Weisman of
the Washington Post reported in Cost
of Senate Immigration Bill Put at $126 Billion:
“The Senate's embattled immigration bill would raise government
spending by as much as $126 billion over the next decade, as the government
begins paying out federal benefits to millions of new legal workers and cracks
down on the border, a new Congressional Budget Office analysis concludes.
Law enforcement measures alone would necessitate the hiring of nearly
31,000 federal workers in the next five years, while the building and
maintenance of 870 miles of fencing and vehicle barriers would cost $3.3
billion. Newly legalized immigrants
would claim nearly $50 billion in federal benefits such as the earned income
and child tax credits, Medicaid, and Social Security.”
Notice that even when the data is in the same article the
MSM can’t figure out that if the government spent $3.3 billion on the fence
maybe they wouldn’t have to be spending the other $123 billion. Why don’t these people get it?
Anyway and amazingly, it seems that few people want to ask
WHY we should be paying for illegal aliens to stay in the US. The “we” means YOU and me, the taxpayer.
Steven Camarota notes in a Judicial Watch Special Report, New Fronts in the Immigration Battle:
“All the
research suggests that the reason illegal aliens create large fiscal [deficits]
for the country is not their legal status, but rather their educational
attainment. Sixty percent of illegals
are thought not to have even a high school education, another twenty percent, a
high school education only. All the research
suggests that people with relatively little education make relatively little
money in the modern American economy…[As] a consequence, they tend to pay
relatively little in taxes, even if they are legal and on the books.
At the same
time, [these individuals] tend to use a fair amount in public services, reflecting
their lower incomes. I estimate
illegals pay about $16 billion a year to the Federal Government in taxes…the
difference between what they pay in taxes and use in services is about $10
billion. So right now the net drain on
the Federal Government alone from illegal families is about $10 billion. If we began to legalize [these individuals]
and they began to pay taxes and use services like legal immigrants with the
same level of education, the net fiscal drain would roughly triple to nearly
$30 billion.”
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has a fairly recent article, The Estimated Cost of Illegal Immigration, where the net number is put at $24.4 Billion. However, as noted, some experts say almost twice that much is being sent out of the country and just the education and traffic accident costs are more than that.
As this paper has detailed, just the education costs could be as high as $34.5 billion. That and just $10 billion in services minus the $16 billion in taxes is a net drain is $28.5 billion, not $10 billion. Add in the collateral damage from crime and traffic accidents, as well as lost wages and the number really soars.
The aforementioned KGTV report, Illegal Immigration Could
Cost Taxpayers Trillions, notes: “The
National Academy of Sciences estimated that each immigrant will result in a
$100,000 net annual cost to taxpayers.”
If that is the case then illegal immigrants are costing the country TRILLIONS of dollars, which is, of
course, the point of the KGTV report.
As far as the author of this
report has determined after many hours of searching, there is no official
calculation of all the direct and indirect
costs of illegal aliens. As referenced
in this report, there is a piece here and a piece there but NOBODY IS TRACKING
IT.
In any case, when you add up
all the direct and indirect costs it would not surprise me if the amount
exceeded $100 billion, per year. If the
data for the costs of crime is correct, and the traffic accidents participation
turns out to be as great as some indicators point to, then the number could
easily exceed $200 billion.
Using the $200 billion
figure and 300,000,000 million people in the US, that would be $667 for every
person in the United States. However
only 136,000,000 file taxes, and of those about 44,000,000 pay no taxes leaving
about 92,000,000 actual taxpayers. For
them, illegal immigration could be costing each taxpayer about $2,174
each. In states with high percentages
or concentrations of illegal aliens the amount is even higher.
At $2,174, that amount would
buy a head of $5.96 per head of lettuce every day of the year. What could you do with an extra $2,174? So much for a “victimless crime.”
However, regardless of the
economic costs, how can you put a cost on the Americans being molested, raped,
killed, and murdered by illegal aliens?
For more information, see:
· Chilling Cost of
Illegal Alien Immigration
· Welfare
Reform and Immigrant Participation in Welfare Programs
· Fiscal Impacts of
Undocumented Aliens
· Congressman:
'Parasitic' Illegal Aliens Burden U.S. Hospitals
· Hospitals
'Mugged' by Illegal Aliens
· The Number and
Cost of Immigrants on Medicaid
· Illegal Aliens: The Health
Cost Dimension
· 'Border baby'
boom strains S. Texas
·
Hospitals:
Aid to offset costs of immigrants is necessary
· Illegal
Immigration Costs California $10.5 Billion Annually
· Costs of
Illegal Immigration to New Yorkers - $4.5 Billion
· The
Costs of Illegal Immigration to Arizonans: Executive Summary
· Illegal Aliens in
Federal, State, and Local Criminal Justice Systems
· The
Earnings of Male Hispanic Immigrants in the United States
· The High Cost of Cheap
Labor - Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget
This report has attempted to
highlight The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration that the MSM is not
reporting on and bring to light the massive amount of collateral damage in
terms of Americans that are being ripped off, infected, molested, killed, and
murdered as a result of our out of control immigration policies.
This section contains a summary
of the collateral damage highlighted in this report along with the estimated
annual costs, when known.
Before we do that, however, let
us digress for a moment in the way of remembrance.
On September 11, 2001, a handful of illegal alien, foreign
national terrorists with a plan and the will to carry out that plan, killed 2,752 Americans. The
Center for Contemporary Conflict notes in Economic
Costs to the United States Stemming From the 9/11 Attacks:
“The September
11 attacks inflicted casualties and material damages on a far greater scale
than any other terrorist aggression in recent history. Lower Manhattan lost approximately 30
percent of its office space and a number of businesses ceased to exist. Close to 200,000 jobs were destroyed or
relocated out of New York City, at least temporarily.
The destruction
of physical assets was estimated in the national accounts to amount to $14
billion for private businesses, $1.5 billion for state and local government
enterprises and $0.7 billion for federal enterprises. Rescue, cleanup and related costs have been estimated to amount
to at least $11 billion for a total direct cost of $27.2 billion.”
The report goes on:
· Insurance. The losses from
the terrorist attacks for the insurance industry (including reinsurance) are
estimated at between $30 and $58 billion with the main uncertainty concerning
liability insurance. …Following the attacks, most primary insurers have
increased their premiums and curtailed or dropped altogether coverage for
terrorism-related risk. …Overall it is estimated that commercial property and
liability insurance rates have been raised by 30 percent on average.
· Airlines. The United
States' airline industry was already in a weak financial position before the
attacks with rising debt ratios and falling returns on investment. Even with cutbacks in service of the order
of 20 percent and significant government support, airline passenger traffic has
apparently remained below normal, 100,000 layoffs have been announced and
employment in October and November fell by 81,000 (almost 8 percent). Equity
valuations compared to the overall market illustrate these difficulties. The
U.S. airline sector has lost around 20 percent of its relative value since
September 10.
· Tourism and Other Service Industries. Other industries have also been badly affected, such as
hotels, tourism, automobile rentals, travel agents, and civilian aircraft
manufactures. For example, hotels have reported higher vacancy rates and
employment in the sector as a whole fell by 58,000 (about 3 percent) in October
and November. Relative equity values
for hotels and leisure facilities are off by around 15 percent.
·
Increases in security and
military spending. …Additional spending of $48 billion was
proposed for national defense (an increase of 14 percent from the previous
year). In addition the President asked
Congress for an appropriation of $38 billion for homeland security, compared to
$20 billion spent in 2001.
Note that the numbers do not
count the cost of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Regardless, considering the number of people carrying out the
attack, the number of people killed, and the economic damage inflicted, it was
probably the most successful attack in the history of the world.
The first section of this report,
TERRORISM, details that fact our open borders and lack of a REAL ID will
facilitate the next attack by illegal alien terrorists. Next time the costs, human and economic,
could be far greater. Rather than using
planes, imagine a nuke being set of in NYC.
The collateral damage from
illegal alien terrorism is just one aspect of The Dark Side of Illegal
Immigration. As this report has
detailed, there are many other aspects which are occurring right now, today, in
your communities and which could affect you and your family. All of this collateral damage has personal
and economic costs.
This report has not even
attempted to cover all the damage but has focused on the damage with tragic personal
consequences. A summary of the
collateral damage from the dark side of illegal immigration, highlighted in
this paper, and the resulting costs, when known, is as follows.
Note that many of the costs are
unknown because NOBODY IS TRACKING IT and some may be future costs that will be
imposed on America due to our lax enforcement and mostly non-existent border
security of today.
DARK SIDE of ILLEGAL
IMMIGRATION |
YEARLY COSTS |
45,008 illegal aliens from countries on the U.S. list of
state-sponsors of terror or from countries that protected terrorist
organizations and their members were released into the general public
between 2001 and 2005 despite the fact that DHS couldn’t confirm their
identity. Ultimate costs are unknown. Remember 9/11? |
? |
The Border Patrol arrested 39,215 “other-than-Mexicans,”
along the Southwest border. In 2004,
the number jumped to 65,814. DHS
admits they only catch an estimated 1/3 of the border crossers. Ultimate
collateral damage costs of the ones not caught are unknown. |
? |
Some sources say that bin Laden purchased several
suitcase nukes from the Chechen rebels in 1996. Allegedly several of these weapons have been forward deployed
to the US in preparation for al Qaeda’s next attack on American soil. Ultimate
costs are unknown. |
? |
According to two trainers at an anti-terrorism
conference, preparations are well underway in Islamic terrorist camps for attacks
on American schools that will bring “rivers of blood and staggering body
counts.” Ultimate costs are unknown. |
? |
Illegal aliens are enormously involved identity fraud. Costs are unknown. |
? |
Illegal aliens are involved in a plethora of other
criminal activities including such crimes involving methamphetamine, cocaine,
home invasion, auto insurance fraud, life insurance fraud, food stamp fraud, mortgage fraud, auto theft, drug trafficking,
prostitution, and counterfeiting documents. Costs are unknown. |
? |
At the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens
were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities. |
$6.8B |
Mac Johnson estimates that illegal aliens murder between
1,806 and 2,510 people in the U.S. annually, an average of 2,158
murders. (Representative King states
illegal aliens are responsible for 4,380 murders) Cost to society: |
$8.4 B |
According to FBI Estimates on Number of Arrests in 2005 in the United States and applying a straight 5% of population
representation, illegal aliens would have committed 1,172,036 crimes in 2005. Based on an average of $25,000 per crime,
the costs would be $29.3 billion.
There are strong indications that their involvement is much higher. |
$29.3B |
Based on a GAO report
of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local
facilities during 2003 and extrapolating the average number of offenses out
across all 267,000 incarcerated illegal alien criminals results in some
1,288,619 crimes! Based on an average of
$25,000 per crime, the costs would be $32.2 billion. Another estimated 240,000 criminal
illegal aliens are not incarcerated.
Note the correlation with the previous yearly estimate. |
$32.2B |
Professor David Anderson reports that the
net annual burdened costs of crime, in 2006 dollars that would be
$1.62 TRILLION. A 5% illegal alien
participation would be $81 BILLION.
Some studies indicate the participation of illegal aliens is much higher
than representation. |
$81B |
80,000 to 100,000 illegal aliens who have been convicted
of serious crimes still walk the streets. As previously noted, based on studies, those illegal alien
criminal will commit 13 offenses each.
Total costs are unknown. |
? |
An estimated 2,258,550 pounds
of cocaine made it through the southern border with an estimated street
value conservatively
estimated $72.2 BILLION.
Resulting costs of the associated crime is unknown. Assume 50% is paid for through crime: |
$36.1B |
There are currently over 400,000 unaccounted for illegal
alien criminals with outstanding deportation orders. Those are just the ones apprehended. At least one fourth of these are hard
core criminals. Resulting costs are
unknown. |
? |
Researcher Deborah Schurman-Kauflin Ph.D. of the Violent
Crimes Institute, reports that the illegal alien population includes
240,000 sex offenders – a “conservative estimate.” Based on studies, they will commit 130,909 sex crimes annually. Using $50,000 as the average total economic impact, resulting
costs are: |
$6.5B |
63% of the sexual crimes, 82,473 victims, were committed
by previously deported perverts
who returned to commit the crime.
Using $50,000 as the average total economic impact, this would be
$4.1 BILLION - more than the cost of
a proper border fence along the southern border. . |
$4.1B |
Operation Predator resulted in
6,085 child predator arrests. Some pedophile
statistics report that each pedophile molests average of 148 children. If so, that could be as many as 900,580 victims. Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
Gangs Or Us estimates that MS-13 has over
15,000 members and associates in at least 115 different cliques in 33
states, and these numbers are continually increasing. .Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
In one report, mostly illegal alien Hispanics were involved in 25% of the
fatal traffic accidents, an astounding 5 times as much participation as
representation. In those
accidents, 75% of the drivers had no auto insurance, nearly all of
the vehicles driven by migrants were registered to other drivers, and 93% of
the vehicles had false out-of-state tags.
Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
Illegal aliens are often involved
in DWIs at a rate that is 3-6 times greater than their representation in the
population. Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
At a 5% representation, illegal aliens are responsible
for 844 alcohol related fatalities.
Data suggests their participation is actually far higher. (Rep.King
states that illegal aliens were responsible for 4,745 alcohol related
fatalities. If so, that would 5.6
times as many deaths as representation.)
Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
Based on NHTSA data and a 5% participation rate, illegal
are responsible for 309,050 accidents, 2,132 deaths, 139,400 injuries, and a
cost of $11.5 billion. Data suggest
their involvement is much higher, maybe 3-5 times higher. |
$11.5B |
Half of all children born to Hispanic Americans in 2002
were illegitimate, twice the rate for American whites and 42 percent higher
than the overall American rate.
Rates are suspected of being even higher for Hispanic illegal
aliens. Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
There are an estimated 5.1
million ESL students in the USA. If
90% of the ESL students are children of illegal aliens then the education
costs for children of illegal aliens is about $34.5 billion per year. |
$34.5B |
Many illegal aliens are carrying horrific third world
diseases. In the 40 years prior to
2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in the US. In the following three years there have
been 9,000 cases.
TB is epidemic in many illegal alien communities and a new
Multiple-Drug-Resistant (MDR) TB is spreading. Each person infected with TB will infect 10 others. Treating a single case of MDR TB costs
between $250,000 and $1,200,000 per person.
Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
Between March 2000 and March 2005, only 9 percent of the
net increase in jobs for adults went to people born in the US but natives
accounted for 61 percent of the net increase in the overall size of the 18- to
64-year-old population. The jobs
were taken mostly by illegal aliens, displacing native born Americans. Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
The National Academy of Science reported that from 1980
to 1995 there was a 44% of the decline in the real wages of high school
dropouts as a result of immigration.
This affects Black and Hispanic Americans the greatest and is a great
contributor to the high unemployment rate in this segment of the population.
Resulting costs are unknown. |
? |
Harvard Professor George Borjas has reported that illegal aliens displaced
American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion dollars in 2005. |
$133B |
The Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns states we are losing
$35 billion a year in income tax collections from jobs that are now off the
books. |
$35B |
National Academy of Sciences study estimated that
immigration’s net benefit to the American economy is only $10 billion. Most of the other benefits of illegal
aliens “doing the work that Americans won’t” at lower wages goes into the
pockets of their employers. This
item is included to illustrate one of the very few real economic benefits of
tolerating illegal aliens. |
-$10B |
A Rice University study calculated that in 2006 the net
annual cost of legal and illegal immigration will add up to $108
billion. Illegal immigration is
about half the total. |
$54B |
The population of the USA recently crossed the
300,000,000. At the present growth
rate, it will hit 400 million as early as 2029 and about 500 million in 2050. And if things don’t change real fast,
maybe even a Billion by 2075. Additional infrastructure costs will be in the TRILLIONS. |
TRILLIONS $$$$$ |
Immigration will account for 96
percent of the future increase in the school-age population over the next 50
years. Cost to the infrastructure is
unknown. |
? |
A recent report notes that illegals sent and estimated
$45 Billion south in 2006, which was up from an estimated $30 Billion in
2004. That money leaving the economy
does not produce secondary jobs here.
Using a 2:1 money multiplier, that is $90 billion removed from the
American economy. |
$90B |
A Census Bureau study estimates that households headed
by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they
paid in taxes in 2002. These figures
are only for the federal government; costs at the state and local level are
also significant. The study also
finds that if illegal aliens were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the
federal level would grow by nearly $29 billion. |
$10-29B |
Jonathan Weisman
of the Washington Post states “The Senates embattled immigration bill would raise government spending by as much as $126
billion over the next decade, |
$126B |
While some of the costs
summarized above are subsets, e.g. cost of the murders as part of the cost of crime,
as you can see the economic costs of tolerating illegal immigration is quite
considerable. The one thing that you
can be absolutely sure of is that you are paying for it in terms of higher
taxes, insurance premiums, et cetera.
For much more information on
the costs of the collateral damage of illegal immigration in a number of other
categories see the ADDENDUM.
Some estimates place the net
costs of each illegal alien in the country at $50,000 – $100,000 per illegal
alien
If so, then the 15,000,000
illegal aliens are costing us between $750 BILLION and $1.5 TRILLION.
Even saving a dollar on a
head of lettuce, how much lettuce would that buy?
Regardless, what
price do you put on each American who has been molested, raped, killed, or
murdered by an illegal alien?
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