Costs of Illegal Immigration to New Yorkers

Federation for American Immigration Reform ^ | Jan.29, '07 | Dan Stein Report

[T.L.Sink]

Executive Summary: Analysis based on current estimates of the illegal alien population residing in New York indicates that population is costing the state's taxpayers $5.1 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration. That annual tax burden amounts to about $874 per New York household headed by a native-born resident. Even if the estimated $730 million in sales, income and property taxes collected from illegal immigrants are subtracted from the fiscal outlays, net costs still amount to more than $4.5 per year. Even without accounting for all the numerous other areas in which costs associated with illegal immigrants are being incurred by New York taxpayers, the program areas analyzed indicate that the burden is substantial and that the costs are rapidly increasing. The fiscal costs of illegal immigration borne by state taxpayers do not end with these three major areas. The total local costs of illegal immigration is considerably higher if other costs such as preventive health programs, special English instruction, interpretation services in courts and hospitals, welfare programs used by the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers are also calculated.

[Apple Blossom]

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[org.whodat]

Making them legal doesn't solve the problem, it will only increase the demand for yet another batch of illegals to replace them.

The hundred ton elephant that Jorge is trying to sweep under the rug. :)

[TheLion]

Bttt!