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Default Illegal Immigration Bankrupting USA - 'Everything is free in America!'

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> Illegal Immigration Bankrupting America
>
> "Everything is free in America!"
>
> by Frosty Wooldridge
>
> LOUISVILLE, CO -- (OfficialWire) -- 09/14/07 -- Really? Two billion
> unfortunates in third-world nations hunger for a chance to migrate to
> America.
>
> While in-migration in small numbers may be sensible for specific
> reasons, bringing countless third-world people to the U.S. with no
> strategic plan or goals proves foolish and dangerous. Sufficient
> reasons exist for first-world nations to enforce their immigration
> laws: to protect jobs and citizens.
>
> Few Americans comprehend the various impacts and financial costs of
> illegal migration into the United States. Like a cancer, it enters the
> body while proliferating until, at some point, it compromises, then
> destroys the integrity of surrounding tissue. Illegal "migration"
> encroaches on legal American taxpayers who work honestly within their
> system.
>
> The costly overhead, the "fringe-benefits" - tend to sneak up on us.
> At first, communities and individual taxpayers don't notice it. But
> soon, it grows beyond normalcy - toward malignancy.
>
> With more than 20 million illegal aliens working and living in the
> United States today, that malignancy spreads out of control in every
> state where a sizable population of aliens congregates.
>
> According to the well-respected U.S. Center for Immigration Studies
> (www.cis.org), incarcerated convicted illegal aliens make up 29
> percent of federal, state and local prisons at a cost of more than
> $1.6 billion annually. This number doubles when the costs for
> apprehension, the justice system, public defenders, interpreters,
> prosecutors and the courts add to the total.
>
> Gig Conaughton, reporter for the North County Times, Escondido,
> California, wrote a piece exposing the horrific costs of illegal
> aliens in one county.
>
> Conaughton wrote, "A county-commissioned study estimated that illegal
> immigrants directly cost the county of San Diego and taxpayers $101
> million last year, and indirectly cost an additional $155 million in
> unpaid medical care. Public school costs and a myriad of social-
> services increase the actual costs, but are not included in the
> count."
>
> Illegal alien "migrants" cost the county roughly $75 million in
> criminal justice costs, such as jailing, prosecuting and public
> defender efforts - and $26 million in health, social and other costs.
> Experts said the estimates proved very conservative. Please remember,
> our laws only require that we provide emergency medical services.
>
> Conaughton wrote, "Spokesman Horn, who pushed hard for the study to be
> done, said Friday that he planned to use the report to lobby the
> federal government, through Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Solana Beach, for
> help. He also said he thought the $255 million figure was too low - in
> part because he thought it underestimated the illegal immigrant
> population - and did not take education costs into account."
>
> Bilbray champions enforcement of existing immigration laws.
> "Bilbray, who campaigned for the study along with Horn when both were
> running for election in 2006, issued a written statement saying he was
> eager to work with Horn to get federal reimbursement," Conaughton
> wrote. 'When it comes to illegal immigration,' Bilbray said in his
> statement, 'the federal government is the biggest deadbeat dad in
> America.'"
>
> Net costs to provide services to illegals increased 500 percent in 7
> years.
> "In 2001, county supervisors released a study compiled by researchers
> for the United States-Mexico Border Counties Coalition that said San
> Diego County spent more than $50.3 million in 1999 on criminal justice
> and medical care for illegal immigrants," Conaughton wrote.
>
> "I'm not even asking that question," Horn said. "I spend taxpayer
> money for taxpayer services. That's my charge. My issue with the
> federal and state government is that they're asking me to spend my
> LOCAL taxpayer money on people who don't even belong here - and are
> here unlawfully."
>
> The San Diego report exposed shocking costs to taxpayers in one
> county. With California hosting more than five million illegal aliens
> and their kids and grand-kids, a 2005 report showed "migrants" cost
> state taxpayers more than $10.2 billion annually - for primary,
> secondary and tertiary services. That's money that could reduce the
> $38 billion state debt!
>
> Like California, Colorado citizen-taxpayers pay gigantic costs.
> In my state of Colorado, our finances struggle under the load of more
> than 500,000 illegals at a cost of $1 billion annually (Source:www.cairco.org) for primary, secondary and tertiary services. Some
> sources estimate triple that cost!
>
> These precious dollars pay for K-12 education, emergency medical
> costs, optional medical costs, the additional burden on the justice
> system and the public defender, and incarceration of convicted
> criminal aliens. Other costs covered include uninsured illegals in
> vehicular accidents, school breakfast and lunch programs as well as
> things like housing assistance.
>
> Under the radar, most Americans don't realize half of illegal aliens
> work off the books and pay no taxes. The 2005 Bear Stearns Report
> showed a related loss of $301 billion in uncollected IRS income taxes
> annually, for the 2003 base year.
>
> To make it worse, migrants yearly send more than $60 billion in cash
> remittances back to home countries- thus bleeding the U.S. treasury.
> These illegal aliens forget to report their job-wages when applying
> for "free" services.
>
> BIG "business;" children and grand-children born here to illegal
> aliens.
> "Instant citizens" create another drain on taxpayers' earnings. The
> average delivery costs $5,000 to $7,000 - depending on location. The
> pre-natal and postnatal care adds another $5,000. Is this 'birthing' a
> big item? Various experts tell us the number of such births in 2006
> was somewhere between 400,000 and 1,200,000 babies.
>
> The direct and indirect costs are thus somewhere between 4.4 BIL and
> 13.2 BIL U.S. dollars - per year - and that doesn't include the
> subsequent $3.5 BIL to $10.5 BIL - per year - for education. The real
> kicker occurs when each child gains free access to K-12 education and
> free breakfast and lunch program for 13 years of schooling. The cost
> of one year of school averages $7,000.00 - and the feeding programs,
> born by American taxpayers, soar into the billions of dollars.
>
> How many children of illegal aliens attend U.S. schools?
> The "official numbers" grossly understate the reality.
>
> If we tabulate 20-28 million illegal aliens here now - plus their 4-9
> million kids and grand-kids - and two-thirds of those kids attend
> schools - we pay to educate some 4-9 million kids. Factor-in birth
> costs, prenatal care, postnatal care, medical costs for children with
> birth-defects and other "complications," special needs kids, schooling
> and lunch programs - and we're talking big bucks. Do the math!
>
> The U.S. continues as the only first-world nation to endorse the old-
> paradigm - granting full citizenship and benefits to each child "Born
> in the USA ." France and Britain and all of the other first-world
> nations nullified that benefit many years ago, as counterproductive.
>
> California Rep. Dan Lungren introduced HR 1940 to stop birthright
> citizenship.
> He said, "It's a debate worth having, considering an estimated 400,000
> to 1,200,000 babies are born in the United States every year to
> illegal immigrant parents. Those babies receive automatic U.S.
> citizenship - at great cost to U.S. citizen-taxpayers. If citizenship
> is to have true meaning, foreign-nationals with no allegiance to the
> United States should not be able to lay claim to it on behalf of their
> offspring."
>
> Hidden Costs; not discussed in polite company
> As the financial costs grow, few speak about job losses and wages
> depressed for America's working poor. "Unemployment" proves a touchy
> subject, so the official numbers continue being grossly understated.
> In truth, 14-18 million U.S. citizen-taxpayers endure unemployment.
> They head to the unemployment lines, soup kitchens, homelessness and
> food stamps. Their family members suffer endlessly, but the
> "progressive" media maintains "silent assertion."
>
> Do not forget the middle class! They suffer job losses in roofing, dry-
> walling, construction, cab driving, landscaping, house painting,
> paving and restaurant work - just to name a few. We must also remember
> that each of these "breadwinners" usually features a spouse-partner, a
> few kids, and aging parents.
>
> No one escapes the ravages of illegal migration.
>
> Ask yourself this question. With more than 20 million "migrants" doing
> THIS MUCH DAMAGE, what happens to American workers and communities
> tomorrow, and the next day - when we add another 10 or 20 or 30
> million more illegal aliens into our country?
>
> If you are not enraged, you are part of the problem.
>
> Take action:http://www.numbersusa.comwww.thesoci...ecoalition.com



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