Illegal immigration is draining hundreds of millions of dollars from local governments but.....
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Wrong -- for example, California has a net cost to the state taxpayers of $10 BILLION per year for the support of illegal aliens, which includes, but not limited to, welfare, medical, educational impact and law-enforcement and incarceration costs. To say nothing of the Border Patrol enforcement costs. The latest estimates for the entire country, state and federal is in excess of $100 BILLION PER YEAR and increasing as the illegal flow across our border, combined with heavy propogation of illegals on American soil.
Socialist states are more heavily impacted by illegals.
In California, we don't even consider the cost of providing bi-lingual services like phone, signage, etc.. which costs money and when accumulated, gets very expensive.