Thread: Letter: The true cost of illegal immigrants

Letter: The true cost of illegal immigrants
May 7, 2008
Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Listed below are the costs to the legal taxpayers of the U.S. for illegal aliens in all facets of their effect on our economy. Please publish this as my letter advising our legal citizens why they had to send so many dollars to Washington on April 15!

To check the figures see Snopes@http://www.snopes.com/politic...kofamerica.asp.

$11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year; $2.2 billion a year spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens; $2.5 billion a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens; $12 billion a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English; $17 billion a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies; $3 million a day is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens; 30% of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens; $90 billion a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Security by the American taxpayers; $200 billion a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens; The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s 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 also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin 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 in remittances back to their countries of origin; The dark side of illegal immigration: nearly one million sex crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States.

Total cost (tax dollars) for illegal immigrants is a whopping…$338.3 billion a year!

Ed Drechsel

Gloucester, VA.

http://gazettejournal.net/article_8692.shtml

Jean, mind numbing isn't it? Someday people will wake up from this ridiculous nightmare and say "No More!"