Posted on 08/18/2004 10:54:05 AM PDT by RandDisciple
A new report by the independent research institute Center for Immigration Studies is one of the first to estimate the effect of illegal immigration on the federal budget. (most previous research was on the effect ot state and local gov.) The full text of the report is embargoed until Aug. 25. The short summary of their pending study released today states that the costs that illegals impose on the federal budget are much larger than the payroll tax payments they contribute and that they run into the billions of dollars. "The study also finds that if illegals were given amnesty, the net fiscal deficit at the federal level would nearly triple". The study "The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget" will be available Aug. 25 online at: http://www.cis.org
Do you have a link for the article or for the summary of the study?
destroying the country for a few thousand extra votes--
Seems we have to wait a bit. I'm *very* interested in the results...
I was looking for a link to this:
The short summary of their pending study released today...
And there is no link to his post from "U. S. Newswire"
Reminds me of the "they do jobs no one else will do". Like landscaping, agriculture, and service industries didn't exist until illegal immigrants came around.
Now that there is a link, I will ping. More on this later in the month.
The jobs that illegal immigrants will do that no one else will do happens in places that have no or not enough poor people and are not willing to provide transportation for the poor to get there to do those jobs. Has happened to the fast food industry in Johnson County, KS, in the past few years (though there are probably enough immigrants now to take care of those jobs. They can afford rent since they live several families to a home.)
The biggest cost came on 9-11-01. *duh ; )*
however, there's boatloads of undocumented immigrants sucking us dry.
I love random governmental enforce of federal code uniformly against Americans, but NOT AT FREAKING ALL against the illegal invaders that WE SUPPORT!
I love (few parts) of Mexico and ABSOLUTELY LOVE the honest, hard-working, faithful PEOPLE and their families muy mucho, however...
Coming here illegally is not acceptable and not the type of 'citizen' that we need.
I guess we should all live in America like the illegal invaders?? /sarcasm
I'm afraid it will more than triple after these people drag their families here. Go figure!!
These kinds of studies being done will be the beginning of the end of the open hand to places like Mexico.
I noticed they said effect on the FEDERAL budget with no reports on the impact on a state level where in California alone the costs would be in the billions a year for that state alone.
This ALL needs to get added up and presented to the public on a continuing basis until the mainstream public wake up and demand a fix of our current way of doing things.
But as long as people can save a few bucks on groceries at Walmart, to heck with deporting the illegals...let 'em stay!!! LOL </sarcasm>
"The study also finds that if illegals were given amnesty, the net fiscal deficit at the federal level would nearly triple".
No worries, VP Cheney has informed us that deficits don't matter.
Here in San Diego and all SoCal we (taxpayers) are required to pay for all the illegal's scholl costs AND must find teachers to teach them in WHATEVER language they may speak.
Why stop there? Why not refer to them as "out of status" or "the legally discriminated"?
Even "illegal immigrant" is a misnomer. Immigrants are resettlers who adapt to their new community (legally) and strive to become citizens. The majority of illegal aliens are only here for the money. No adaption, no thoughts of citizenship, seeking to send as much money out of our country as possible.
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