For more background information as to why it is so important to include the local costs see: Legislation: Immigrants - Do they help or hurt Utah?. By omitting local costs (to government) and looking solely at state costs, results are skewed in favor of illegal immigrant activists - I believe that is what the State Senator will attempt.
I have to run some errands but will be back later. Thanks for all your help!
I have heard from a sister who recently retired from county government that there are huge costs involved in the translating and printing of all government forms and documents into various and sundry languages. It can run into millions.
The most ridiculous irony is that, especially for the invaders from South of the Border, many are illiterate in their native language anyway so it serves no purpose whatsoever.
Don't know what the law is in Utah, but in NJ even illegals are covered by workers' compensation insurance. In NJ this benefit includes temporary disability payments, a lump sum permanent injury payment and 100% of medical costs incurred due to most workplace injuries - regardless of fault.
Deterioration of neighborhoods as illegals cram three or four families into a unit designed for one.
Re: suppressed wages, two points. The American citizens who are displaced by the lower-paid illegals are receiving government assistance. That is another cost of illegal aliens.
When employers pay less than a living wage to illegals, they are, in essence, forcing the rest of us to subsidize their companies with the public services that illegals use because they can't afford private services.
Spreading earnings across multiple fake identities within the course of a year can result in each of those identities earning below the poverty line and each of those identities will then be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit. Don't know how widespread this practice is, but I often read about raids where the illegal employees return a few days after the raid with new identities.
I've seen resident's kids change and go along with their 'cousins', then, and when something goes bad, the cousin is gone. At least one friend lost a car because it was loaned to a 'cousin' by his girlfriend; car was impounded (written off) and the girlfriend wound up suing my friend as a payback. (?/!)
I'm also surprised that the posted list does not include the drug trade that has illegals here distributing for criminals in mexico.
The negative belief passed on to our children that some (decent honest starter) jobs are somehow below their dignity when politicians constantly tell us that there are jobs that 'Americans won't do.'
Mexifornia, Five Years Later
By Victor Davis Hansen
Feb 2, 2007
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779403/posts
Didn't include the lost jobs that Americans aren't working. How many American men would be construction workers except that illegals now work at a lower salary.
Please add any omissions etc you may notice!""
This may seem obscure, but I know it exists, especially among women friends of mine:
I won't go into a store to shop where I detect an abundance of stragglers hanging around the parking lot "looking for work". LISTEN UP: HOME DEPOT!! You have permanently lost me to LOWES. I am just as concerned they are looking for a car to break into or steal or other trouble.
I won't go into a restaurant where I detect more employees not speaking English than those which are speaking English. EI: TACO BELL--McDONALD'S-- I don't trust the order to be done correctly, nor the overall cleanliness of the food preparation. It also offends me that even at work behind the counter they don't make ANY attempt to converse in English. They all talk whatever was their mother speech. It is just plain rude. They are here, they want to "work, but they don't want to assimilate at all.
In general, My money is being spent online or by catalog in more instances than ever before because I don't want to be where they are. At least I know my UPS driver, he is white, courteous, and an AMERICAN CITIZEN. I just don't feel safe going out into the streets nearly as much any more, PERIOD.
This makes an impact on the business of my area, which eventually impacts all the services the county or city or state can afford to provide. It becomes a vicisous circle, as money needed for law enforcement gets smaller while the problems get bigger.
Regarding health care, don't forget the $1 billion that was added to the Medicare Bill to pay for the illegal alien's hospital bills on the border. All Americans have to subsidize the border hospitals.
This should fall under the "HEALTH" heading, but millions of unimmunized/improperly immunized people entering the US is a health disaster in the making.
Americans also ought to be asking, "WHY was/is there an E-coli outbreak in spinach; Why was/is there e-coli in meats? Why are once-thought eradicated/controlled diseases again resurfacing? Do I want to expose my children to these improperly immunized/screened children?" Then Americans ought evaluate those specific industries and their association with the illegal alien population and those specific outbreaks to regions where more illegal aliens are enrolled in schools.
The answer is apparent.
Does Dane count as a cost? But, seriously, these are non-financial costs as well:
- giving political power to groups like NCLR, LULAC, etc.
- giving political power inside the U.S. to Mexico
- political corruption
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What is the cost of having a government that is not the slightest bit interested in governing “from the consent of the governed?”
What is the worth of this nation prior to being destroyed by traitor politicians that are swallowing the lie of the “immigration vote?”
What is the cost of all the lives that were laid down to maintain the principles of our founding fathers and not the principles of cheap labor for cheating businesses?
What are these things worth? What priced to we place on the united States of America?
Could go under several categories, but under "Law Enforement" - cost of interpreters.