Thread: Illegal Aliens Costs Fla $4.3 Billion a Year, Report Says

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Time: 6:39 AM,Tuesday, August 9, 2005

Illegal Immigration Costs Florida $4.3 Billion a Year, Report Says
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
August 08, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - A report by an immigration reform group shows that illegal immigration costs the state of Florida at least $4.3 billion a year in health care, education and incarceration costs.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) predicts the state's costs of illegal immigration will increase to nearly $8 billion a year within 10 years unless it is controlled.

"Average Floridians are being asked to pay dearly for the failure of the federal government to control illegal immigration, and for a small number of business interests in the state addicted to low-wage illegal alien labor," said Dan Stein, president of FAIR, in a statement.

"The $4.3 billion being spent on illegal immigrants and their families means those resources are not available to improve and upgrade Florida's woefully overcrowded schools and overburdened public hospitals," said Stein.

"Nor are those funds available for urgent infrastructure repairs needed as a result of the succession of devastating hurricanes that ravaged the state in the last several years," Stein added.

FAIR used Census and other data to estimate the size of Florida's illegal immigrant population to be 630,000, which is larger than the populations of Tampa and St. Petersburg combined.

The costs to Floridians, according to the report, is more than $4 billion a year in providing public education to the children of illegal immigrants, about $165 million a year in non-reimbursed costs for health care, and about $155 million a year to jail illegal aliens in county and state correctional facilities.

"In reality, low-wage illegal alien labor is prohibitively expensive, when the costs of vital public services are factored into the equation," Stein saidd. "Average Floridians are being forced to subsidize illegal immigration and the burden will increase rapidly unless federal, state and local governments begin working together to stem the massive influx."

bet the governor wouldn't agree

I'm sure they are all "huddled" working on a "scripted reply"!!

The House of Cards is about to Fall!!

Personally, I think the issue of illegal immigration has been put off and neglected for so long that it is not even possible to help Florida. I HATE TO SAY THAT. But the stronghold illegals have on this state is beyond belief. Around here, one doesn't even have to hide the fact that they are illegal. It's fine. It's okay. It's even more the norm to be illegal and more the norm to speak Spanish than the other way around. Forget it, best bet is to save the rest of the country. It isn't even possible to be elected here if you oppose illegal immigration. That is what LONG-TERM neglect will do to a state. Build a canal at the FLA-GA line, change it from a Peninsula into an island and let it become an island nation. It's been in the making for a very long time. Remember when people used to say, "When the last American leaves Dade County bring the flag?" Now it is the entire state. Everyone thought that was a funny saying. Everyone but the legal American citizens who were born and raised here.


Forget it, concentrate on the upper 47.
There's still hope. If Tom Delay is successful in wanting to find and apprehend illegals (round them up, as he says) here is where they could be placed. Let the illegals form their own new country instead of turning our country into their former homeland. It worked in FLorida.....please America, don't let it happen to the entire United States.

THIS COUNTRY NEEDS REAL LEADERSHIP, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.

THEN, "Neuvo Floridez" can pay for their own Hurricane Reconstruction!!

That should work LegalUSCitizen. That should work. Hate to see Florida go, but that's what happens to a state over-run with Lawbreakers, eh?

Mmmm.. Neuvo Floridez.

BUT WAIT...what about our Everglades, what about Disneyworld, what about all those Americans with second homes and retirement homes? What about our Oranges? What about our Port of Miami? What about LegalUSCitizen, her husband, and 3 children?

NO WAY, Sweetie, We're Not Handing Over Florida. There will be NO SURRENDER!!

We love with all our hearts all 50 states of the United States.

No foreign invasion is going to reduce us to carving up our country.

We're gonna throw those politicians out of office; We're gonna enforce American Law; We're gonna jail and fine into poverty those who Broke our Laws; We're gonna hold some Treason Trials and punish the wicked that caused this mess; We're gonna take our country back and Make Sure This NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!!

This is the United States.

WE are the Americans.

WE not only decide what happens here,

WE control what happens here.

"All for One and One for All"!!

We're in this together LegalUSCitizen....and while I'm not a Marine I like the way they think, and I can promise to my last breath, the People of the United States will leave no American behind!!

OkAY But we're going to need the troops to pull this one off. Cancel Nuevo Floridez....send help FAST.

We're On It!!

Does Florida have a Minute Man Project??

The U.S. Coast Guard. They are the Minutemen for Florida. But the illegals fly into Florida. They come for a "relative visit" in Miami, or a "Disney Visit" in Orlando. Once in, never out. Here for a lifetime. They bring their homeland with them.

End of story. End of state.

Send the troops.

http://www.flimen.org/

isn't Florida in violation of the 14th amendment



Amendment XIV
(186
"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States"

non-enforcement of immigration laws is "enforcing" a law by omission, which "abridges" the privileges of the citizens of Florida

Mamie, I believe you are correct, as you are so often.

It is such a shame that this situation, of illegal, and quite honestly, too much immigration had to spread and reach other states for the country to wake up.

All the while this INVASION was taking place in south Florida....the country was sleeping like a baby.

We were yelling, "help, help, help us America!" Everyone heard, but turned right over and went back to sleep.

Now, finally, Americans have opened their eyes and are seeing for themselves that the people in south Florida weren't just screaming wolf.
There really was a wolf out there....a dangerous and fast moving wolf.
And he's now in your backyard.

Wake up America!! Take back your country. Open your arms and lend a helping hand to LEGAL immigrants, not to those who have chosen to step on the laws that exist to protect YOU and your loved ones. There is a wrong path and there is a right path. There is a dangerous path and there is a safer path. Which path do you choose for your country