In 2001 the Texas legislature led by Rick Perry passed in-state tuition in direct violation of federal law and yet you see the federal government acting hand in hand with Mexico suing Arizona (for supposedly enforcing federal laws) for trying to protect it's citizens from the harm of illegal immigration. It seems the federal government only wants to sue states trying to slow illegal immigration.

From 2003 to 2005 the cost to Texas taxpayers paid for in-state tuition for illegal aliens jumped from 18 million to almost double 35 million dollars. At that rate of increase the yearly cost to Texas taxpayers at the present time could very well be in excess of 100 million dollars. If Texas legislators on the prowl to cut taxes were serious about protecting Texas citizens from undue tax burdens they should stop illegal in-state tuition for illegal aliens thus trimming 200 million from the expected budget short fall. This small step would stop the closing of any college and stop Texas from breaking federal law.

In 2004 Texas taxpayers paid almost 4 Billion dollars to educate both illegal alien children and the children born to illegal aliens through grade K-12, not including the many millions spent on their health, after school and food programs. If all cost associated with present day schooling of illegal aliens and the children of illegal aliens were taken into account it could easily total more than 8 billion dollars a year and could possibly top 10 to 12 billion taxpayer dollars annually.


Conservative 2006 estimates of the cost of illegal immigration to Texas taxpayers was placed at near 5 billion taxpayer dollars, in today's dollars it could be 10 billion taxpayer dollars. If you include cost for education, that number could easily top 22 billion taxpayer dollars. If immigration laws were enforced Texas might have a surplus instead of trying to close colleges and making steep cuts into our children's future. If Texas legislators are serious about protecting our citizens from undue taxes and reducing the budget shortfall, they would pass and enforce laws to force illegal aliens out of Texas, instead of attracting them.

Please make the time to contact your state rep. and ask that they support a balanced budget and our citizens children's future not that of the illegal aliens.

Thanks
Mr. Stacy


Find your rep. at link below.

http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/