[uncitizen]

There are at least 2 million illegal aliens in the public schools, and K-12 public education is now costing close to $10,000 per child. That's $20 billion right there. Health insurance costs a minimum of $3,000 per person per year, and you know Emergency Room medical care is the most expensive there is, so that's at least another $36 billion. Now add in free school lunch programs -- heavily used by those children of illegals. Also add the higher auto insurance rates everybody else pays because illegals don't. Also add the wear and tear on infrastructure, the cost of new roads to accomodate the huge population increases in CA, AZ, TX, NM, etc. Add the cost of the prison system for all those inmates. Add the cost of the extra police to handle the increased crime rate. Etc., etc.

And those are just the costs that you can assign a dollar value to. There are also inumerable opportunity costs. The traffic congestion alone, here in California, is one example.

[Kellis91789]

I guess my point is really that even people that want to appear fair by presenting "both sides" include such disinformation.

There are many people that will have read this article and come away with the impression that there is really not much of an economic impact.

[spintreebob]

re: "at least 2 million illegal aliens in the public schools"

Yes, immigrants have taken over my suburb and its schools.

The huge demand for housing by immigrants has tripled housing values (and made the citizen sellers rich) It has tripled the money that THESE IMMIGRANTS PAY IN PROPERTY TAXES TO THE SCHOOLS.

These immigrants PAY SALES TAX on all the stuff they buy at Menards/HomeDepot/Lowes to fix up houses neglected by the previous citizen owners for decades.

State/Federal INCOME TAX, FICA, etc is withheld from pay checks. They could claim enough non-aborted family members as dependents to get a refund. But that might reveal their bogus social security numbers and cost them more than the couple hundred dollars refund. So they actually pay too much in income tax because they use bogus social security numbers. They also will never be able to collect social security based on those bogus social security numbers.

At least, that's the way it is in Chicago suburbs.