Thread: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: COSTS, CRIMES, & RELATED PROBLEMS (U.S.)

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: COSTS, CRIMES, & RELATED PROBLEMS (U.S.) Illegal immigration imposes enormous costs -- monetary as well as crime-related -- on American society. As regards criminal activity, Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald describes one small slice of a much larger problem: In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide target illegal aliens, as do approximately two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants. More than 60 percent of the Hispanic gangs in Southern California—whose membership is in the tens of thousands—is illegal. These gangs involved withdrug-distribution schemes, extortion, drive-by assassinations, assaults, and robberies. In a 2006 study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta estimated, conservatively, that from January 1999 through April 2006 approximately 240,000 illegal aliens had committed about 960,000 sex offenses in the United States. The fiscal costs of illegal immigration are also very high. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, in 2002 illegal-alien households imposed, in aggregate, costs exceeding $26 billion on the federal government while they paid $16 billion in federal taxes -- thereby creating a net fiscal deficit of $10.4 billion per year at the federal level, or $2,700 per household. Among the largest components of this deficit were Medicaid ($2.5 billion); medical treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food-assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion). A major reason why illegal aliens are, on balance, such a drain on the American Treasury is because approximately 60 percent of them lack a high-school degree. The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that the average immigrant without a high-school degree will, over the course of his or her lifetime, impose a net cost -- above and beyond any taxes he or she pays -- of nearly $100,000 on U.S. taxpayers; this cost does not include the cost of educating the immigrant’s children. Based on that figure, the estimated 6 million legal immigrants lacking a high-school diploma and residing in the U.S. today, will cost taxpayers more than a half trillion dollars over their lifetimes. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=196 RESOURCES: Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Texas: 611,234 Crimes, 2,993 Murders By J. Christian Adams July 22, 2015 Elusive Crime Wave Data Shows Frightening Toll of Illegal Immigrant Criminals By Malia Zimmerman September 16, 2015 Information on Certain Illegal Aliens Arrested in the United States By the Government Accountability Office April 2005 New FBI Statistics on Crimes Committed by Illegal Aliens INS/FBI Statistical Report November 12, 2006 The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer By Robert Rector and Jason Richwine May 6, 2013 Amnesty & the Bankrupting of America By Arnold Ahlert May 7, 2013 Exposing the Open-Borders Arguments By Lawrence Auster October 15, 2004 The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave By Heather MacDonald Winter 2004 Seeing Today’s Immigrants Straight By Heather Mac Donald Summer 2006 The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget By Steven A. Camarota August 2004 The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer By Robert E. Rector and Christine Kim May 22, 2007 The Fiscal Impact of Immigration By Edwin Rubenstein Spring 2008 Study: Census Data Show High Immigrant Participation on U.S. Welfare Rolls By The Daily Caller August 9, 2012 Illegitimate Nation: An Examination of Out-of-Wedlock Births among Immigrants and Natives By Steven A. Camarota May 2007 Importing Poverty By Robert Rector October 26, 2006 Immigration's Impact on American Workers By Steven A. Camarota August 29, 2006 Illegal Immigration: The Impact on Wages and Employment of Black Workers By Vernon M. Briggs Jr. April 2008 Immigration's Impact on Public Coffers By Steven A. Camarota July 26, 2006 How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy By Steven Malanga July 18, 2006 France’s Immigrant Problem — and Ours By Victor Davis Hanson April 23, 2006 Mexifornia, Five Years Later: The Flood of Illegal Aliens into California By Victor Davis Hanson Winter 2007 The Medicaid Costs of Legalizing Illegal Aliens By James R. Edwards Jr. July 2010 Justice Brennan's Footnote Gave Us Anchor Babies By Ann Coulter August 4, 2010 Drunk and Dangerous: DUI Illegals Behind the Wheel By WorldNetDaily June 1, 2007 VIDEOS: * For recommended videos on this topic, ciick here. SEE ALSO: * Illegal Immigration: Trends, Historical Perspectives, & Related Issues (U.S.) Sign up to get "Featured Profiles" from DTN:

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