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From Congressman Randy Forbes:

The Problem of Illegal Immigration

- There are anywhere from over 2,700 to 8,000 illegal immigrants arriving in the U.S. every day.

- Estimates of the net cost of immigration to taxpayers run from $30 billion to $50 billion a year.

- The United States admits more legal immigrants every year than all the rest of the nations of the world combined.

- More than 10 million undocumented aliens currently reside in the U.S., and that population is growing by 700,000 per year.

- Three out of every 100 people in America are undocumented, creating a profound security problem.


Effects of Illegal Immigration
Health care:
- In some hospitals, as much as two-thirds of total operating costs are for uncompensated care for illegal aliens.

- The utilization rate of hospitals and clinics by illegal aliens (29 percent) is more than twice the rate of the overall U.S. population (11 percent).


- Uninsured illegal aliens cost $2.2 billion annually to the health care system.

Education:
- 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 costs more than double to $28.6 billion.

- In Virginia, there was an estimated cost of $188.7 million spent on illegal alien children and $264.2 million spent on children born to illegal aliens. This brings the total cost to educate these children to $452.9 million.

- California spends an estimated $2.2 billion annually — more than any other state — to educate illegal immigrant children.

Economy:

- Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household.

- The annual net cost of illegal immigrants to the American taxpayer is likely to be more than $45 billion today.

- A study in 1996 of the costs of illegal immigration by Rice University economist, Dr. Donald Huddle, found that illegal aliens were displacing roughly 730,000 American workers every year, at a cost of about $4.3 billion a year.

- For every 100 illegal aliens who find jobs in the U.S., 65 American workers are displaced.

- Illegal aliens have created an underground economy estimated to be about $970 billion, or nearly 9% of the real economy, and it is not being taxed. ( Edit - but you are paying taxes)

Public Assistance:

- The cost of illegal aliens to Medicaid is said to be $2.5 billion annually.

- Food assistance programs used by illegals such as food stamps, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, and free school lunches cost $1.9 billion annually. (Read more:

Crime:
- Approximately 27.5 percent of all federal prisoners are criminal aliens (illegal aliens and legal aliens who are convicted of committing a crime).

- Illegal aliens sentenced in federal courts were more likely than legal aliens or U.S. citizens to have at least one prior conviction resulting in a sentence of at least 60 days.

- In an April 2005 study, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the number of criminal aliens incarcerated in federal facilities increased from about 42,000 at the end of calendar year 2001 to about 49,000 at the end of calendar year 2004– a 15 percent increase.

- GAO estimated the federal cost of incarcerating criminal aliens totaled approximately $5.8 billion for calendar years 2001 through 2004.

- In a population sample study of 55,322 illegal aliens completed in May 2005, GAO found that the aliens studied had been arrested approximately 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien.

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Originally posted by pizmobeach:

Damn straight PN, if you're not a North American Indian you're an "illegal."

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