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FrontPageMagazine.com | November 9, 2004
Posted on 11/09/2004 3:44:38 AM PST by ovrtaxt
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It was the elephant in the living room and during the election nobody wanted to admit it was there, even though it represents one of the most serious threats to the future of America as we know it.
During the campaigns both parties shied away from even mentioning illegal immigration, despite the fact that it was uppermost in the minds of millions of Americans now paying the price for our government’s failure to get a grip on the scandal.
With an estimated 8 million illegal aliens now already here, thousands more are flocking across our southern borders and nobody in authority seems to have the vaguest notion of what to do about this onrushing flood inundating America’s border states.
This is an out-of-control problem which is bankrupting our infrastructure and our hospitals. In California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas, states are being bankrupted and we have to get tough on illegal immigration which is undermining the infrastructure that was erected to take care of the citizens of the United States.
Thanks to the flood of illegal aliens and the burden they are placing on this nation, American citizens are being increasingly denied the health care and the schooling they need because we are spending too much money on the illegals who, in a fit of political correctness, we are now expected to refer to with the less harsh description of "undocumented aliens."
According to a study issued in August, the Center for Immigration Studies - one of the first to estimate the impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget, based on Census Bureau data - households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they paid in taxes in 2002. These figures are only for the federal government; costs at the state and local level are also likely to be significant.
The study also finds that if illegals were given amnesty, the fiscal burden at the federal level would grow to nearly $29 billion.
Among the findings:
• Illegal alien households are estimated to use $2,700 a year more in services than they pay in taxes, creating a total fiscal burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in 2002.
• Among the largest federal costs: Medicaid ($2.5 billion); medical treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).
• If illegal aliens were “legalized” and began to pay taxes and use services like legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual fiscal deficit at the federal level would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total federal deficit of $29 billion.
• With nearly two-thirds of illegals lacking a high school diploma, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments — not their legal status or their unwillingness to work.
• Because many of the costs are due to their U.S.-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth, barring illegals themselves from federal programs will not significantly reduce costs.
The election is over and it’s now time to tackle the problem and get it under control before it controls us. We have emergency rooms closing every day in California, Arizona, Nevada and Texas where they are being forced to take care of people who have absolutely no right to be here, instead of taking care of American citizens.
Our school systems and our hospitals are being bankrupted because of the increasing presence of illegal aliens swarming across our border. Over the next four years the president is going to have to get this disaster under control or those Republicans who voted for him in droves while holding their nose on the illegal immigration issue will not hold their noses two and four years from now.
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No, we deport mom and baby.
You don't have to ban immigrant labor. You simply have to document, control, and regularize it.
We had a program (Bracero program) for doing this up until the labor unions were able to persuade the Congress to end it in the 60s.
We passed Proposition 200 here in Arizona last tuesday. It requires everyone to have appropriate ID to vote, get medical care (other than emergency), or get any benefits from the government. We will have to wait and see if any Clintoon-appointed judges overturns the will of the people here.
Same here, they send their little form letters out, then continue with their personal agenda. With thousands streaming over the border daily, "homeland security" is a joke on America.
Good article but its nothing new. Do people like Michael not realize what is going on here? He is "in the know", I would figure he would understand the situation and why nothing is being done about it. Like I always say, take a look at the FTAA and there is you're answer. Why else would BOTH parties pay NO attention to a MAJOR issue during an election?? FTAA. Simple as that. New world order is much bigger than what we as citizens think.
People like Tom Tancredo and Mike Savage have been SCREAMING about this for years and still most people are too busy yapping on their cell phones or shopping to care...
so it is.
Powell is in Mexico giving the big speech that he/they/them plans on giving 10 million illegals the path to legal residency. They sure didn't waste any time, did they?. We have to hammer some congressmen big time. Nah....this isn't amnesty...not much.
Latest www.cnn.com/lou Lou Dobbs poll
Do you agree with Secretary of State Colin Powell that millions of illegal aliens in the United States should be given legal status?
Yes 10% 335 votes
No 90% 2868 votes
Total: 3203 votes
Powell is in Mexico giving the big speech that he/they/them plans on giving 10 million illegals the path to legal residency. They sure didn't waste any time, did they?. We have to hammer some congressmen big time. Nah....this isn't amnesty...not much.
Latest www.cnn.com/lou Lou Dobbs poll
Do you agree with Secretary of State Colin Powell that millions of illegal aliens in the United States should be given legal status?
Yes 10% 335 votes
No 90% 2868 votes
Total: 3203 votes
Powell is in Mexico giving the big speech that he/they/them plans on giving 10 million illegals the path to legal residency. They sure didn't waste any time, did they?. We have to hammer some congressmen big time. Nah....this isn't amnesty...not much.
Latest www.cnn.com/lou Lou Dobbs poll
Do you agree with Secretary of State Colin Powell that millions of illegal aliens in the United States should be given legal status?
Yes 10% 335 votes
No 90% 2868 votes
Total: 3203 votes
Close the border. How freaking tough is it to get that???
Besides if the fools die trying, well, it's their lives they are throwing away. WE live here! WE should be able to make the rules RIGHT??? We the Majority, yea you liberal weenies, WE dont' want the illegals. So OUT they should go!
IMHO
Same here.. actually the only response I get is from Trent Franks -- but I think he's in favor -- I KNOW McCain is and Kyle always votes against -- Doesn't Kyle look better all the time?????
Do you agree with Secretary of State Colin Powell that millions of illegal aliens in the United States should be given legal status?
FReep this poll
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/
Maybe it's time to push petitions in other states (besides Arizona) like the Gay Marriage petitions on so many election ballots this time. John and Ken in California have been all over it -- but obviously the voters didn't listen when push came to shove. We need to run STRONG Republican candidates against weak Republican Candidates in 06 and 08.
I use it all the time.
And I'm Hispanic.
You are a class act, Tonk. And a man of his word. (Hugs!)
Poll ~ Bump!
Me? You saying that to me? I'm the one who posted that other article!
If the RNC gives Specter the committee chair then I will never gove them a penny again. I gave a lot of pennies.
NumbersUSA.com and Tom Tancredo's new border control PAC and maybe the NRA will get my money. I dropped the Club For GRowth because they are Open Borders.
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