Those are good points, but I think you, I and the average citizen would be shocked to know what the actual yearly cost is. Many of those costs are indirectly related and don't even get considered.
For instance, in the LAUSD they have a gigantic building program. As a construction project, it's second only to the big dig in Boston. We're talking about multiple billions of dollars, possibly in excess of $10 billion. Do you think those building costs are attributed to illegal immigrants? Of course not. Don't forget though, U.S. Citizens are barely having enough kids to replace themselves. With the Baby Boomers heading into regirement, the population in our schools should actually be leveling off or perhaps even dropping a bit.
Most people don't know that upwards of one third of our k-12th grade kids in the LAUSD school system are the children of illegal immigrants. The LAUSD isn't the only school sytem facing this problem. It's a nationwide problem. None of the building costs are being characterized as illegal immigrant related costs.
Folks think about health care. They think about pupil for day rates as they apply to education. They do NOT think about building projects. Those are passed off as something the school districts would have to do anyway, which is not the case.
This is just one example of what I believe are a myriad of multiple billion dollar hidden costs that illegal immigration is costing the middle-class.
bttt!