Posted on 05/12/2006 6:25:43 AM PDT by John Jorsett
A costly illegals invasion....# The estimated 1.1 million illegal immigrants currently in the nation's public school system cost taxpayers $9.6 billion every year in an attempt to educate them (despite the illegal immigrant community's epidemic-scale dropout rates)
# The 2.2 million children of illegal immigrants in America, often referred to as "anchor babies" to ensure the parents can stay, add an additional $20 billion to that tab
# In California, the 2004-05 state budget spent $9,811 per pupil in the classroom. An estimated 425,000 illegal immigrants in the state's classrooms during that period cost taxpayers more than $4 billion -- a figure that does not include the "anchor baby" population in the classroom
# More than 40,000 illegal immigrants jammed California's prison system in 2004, costing taxpayers $1.5 billion in tax dollars not reimbursed by the federal government
# In one of the cruelest jokes played on the American taxpayers, illegal immigrants are allowed to claim children living back in Mexico and qualify for the earned-income tax credit, which traditionally has helped the American poor.
My state, Texas, is trying to figure out how to keep the schools open. If it were not for educating Mexico, we would have plenty of money. In the race for Governor, only one candidate, an independent, is talking about the problem.
Fiscal concerns are certainly there and not insignificant but if this author truly believes this is about money he has missed the boat.
Agreed. This is about the law being broken in broad daylight, without any penalty. This corrodes society like acid.
I guess it depends on who you ask. The money issue is secondary to me. American sovereignty and way of life for me, my family, my community and future generations of Americans is what is paramount in this discussion to me and I'm pretty sure many other Americans. Having money be the most important thing is partially why we are here in the first place.
That should be the end of the discussion right there. Anyone breaking the law, or conspiring to break the law, is guilty of a crime. Regardless of if they are elected to public office of not.
That does not appear to apply to Kennedys or illegals
We the People are in charge here. If our government servents won't do the job we tell them to, then we need to do it our selves until those servents can be replaced with those who can read their employment contract and understand what it says quite clearly.
I have made the financial and moral argument for illegal immigration since I took up the defense. Please point to ONE "fanatical" post of mine.
#1 - only vigilantes take the law into their own hands.
#2 - Jim Robinson has already said he will not be a party to anything that gets the Democrats back in power.
You'd better be careful.
Even if households headed by illegal aliens received $26.3 billion in government services, while paying a total of $16 billion in taxes, that doesn’t necessarily = $10 billion loss if the costs of sealing the border, rounding up everyone and deprting, etc. are more.
Please point out the "fanaticism" in my post # 16 then.
Sounds like a threat to me. Do you always start off your conversations by threatening people?
Did you mean a ten billion dollar gain?
Since it is not a threat, but a helpful suggestion (i.e. yf you were crossing the street against a red light, I'd say the same thing), no.
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