to illegal aliens.......which is double the current Colorado budget deficit........
Posted on 06/23/2010 2:13:53 AM PDT by ConservativeJen
A new poll shows that 61% of Coloradans want a copy of Arizona’s law allowing law enforcement to investigate those they encounter who exhibit reasonable suspicion of being an illegal alien.
A recent study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform discovered that illegal aliens cost Colorado taxpayers more than $1.1 billion per year, or about $612 per household. Additionally, between $730 million and $1 billion per year of wages paid to illegal aliens is sent out of the country instead of being reinvested in local communities.
More than 10% of the students in Colorado public schools are the children of illegal aliens, costing the taxpayers $11,000 each per year, for an annual total of $925 million. Another $68 million per year is spent on programs for ‘limited English students’, who are mostly the children of illegal aliens. These costs do not include the costs to the federal government incurred by illegal aliens in the Colorado public education system.
Illegal aliens cost Colorado taxpayers $82 million per year. This does not include the health care costs which are charged to the federal government or the higher premiums paid by Coloradans to help cover costs incurred by illegal aliens in Colorado.
Colorado taxpayers pay $38 million per year to incarcerate illegal aliens in Colorado. This estimate only covers a small portion of the cost of criminal aliens to Colorado.
The minimum cost of $1.1 billion per year to the Colorado budget due to illegal aliens is double the current Colorado budget deficit of $560.7 million. If illegal aliens left the state of Colorado, this $560.7 budget deficit would turn into a surplus of about the same amount. One suspects that the percentage of Coloradans in favor of enacting an Arizona-style law would be even higher, if these figures were widely known.
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Now run those numbers in California.
Probably would be the case in every state.
But politicians dont want balanced budgets...they want votes.
Its not like we here have been saying this for just about forever.Libs hate numbers because it ruins their fantasy.
“Libs hate numbers because it ruins their fantasy.”
You are right here, and that’s probably why there won’t be a federal budget this year.
Deport them all.
The accounting equation is an absolute B!+ch for Dem/Socialist.
They violate it while exposing us to ":Moral Hazard" i.e. CRDA and Fannie and Freddie and by looking the other way essentially to the unfunded liabilities of illegals living here.
Numbers destroy their arguments of their great society visions and what they think they are entitled too.
A great example is when the UAW leaders had a major sit down with former GM CEO Rick Waggoner about 18 months before GM went belly up. They were given the full masacree and they come out of the meeting saying nothing and looking very grim by press accounts and the pictures I got to see.
States should sue the federal government for the costs attributable to illegal immigrants. The federal government’s failure to enforce its own immigration laws is is the primary factor in most states’ budget deficits.
Colo. don’t need no stinkin revenue, it has Calfornitis.
Four words:
Eisenhower Administration. “Operation Wetback”.
Operating deficit, $5 billion. Cost of illegal immigration, $10 billion+
Indicated surplus, $5 billion+
As I was driving home last night, I saw two trucks with Illinois license plates, loaded down with what looked to be all their worldly possessions. The drivers and passengers all appeared to be of Mexican descent and appeared to be driving south...hopefully BACK to Mexico. Just the threat of immigration enforcement causes illegals to self-deport. If more states follow Arizona’s lead, we will have far fewer illegal aliens to deport.
Texas State Rep. Burnham out of Tyler has said he will introduce an Arizona-style immigration law for the Texas Legislature’s next session. Gov. Goodhair may not like it, but ask any tax paying Texan and they do.
See post #14.
>> But politicians dont want balanced budgets...they want votes.
That would make a great tag line.
Reconquista shock troops at Phoenix Capital protest, May 29, 2010.
Why didn't Calderon whine about that when he addressed Congress?
Guess he knew he would not get a standing ovation (/snix).
Do you have a different link?
I want to send this to some of my friends in Colorado, but this link isn’t working.
Thanks,
Many demands on our govt services would go with them.
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