Posted on 03/09/2008 9:42:31 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
Slowly but surely Washington is acknowledging the high cost illegal immigration inflicts on local governments. The New York Times reports on a study by the University of Arizona and San Diego State University showing counties along the Mexican border spent $1.23 billion processing illegal immigrants through the justice system. Heritage research shows the cost of low skilled immigrants does not end there. In FY 2004, at the local and state level, the average low skill immigrant household received $14,145 in benefits and services and paid only $5,309 in taxes. The average low skill immigrant households imposed a fiscal burden on local and state government of $8,836 per year. Current federal immigration policy permits a massive inflow of both legal and illegal low skill immigrants to enter and reside in the U.S. This imposes a massive unfunded mandate on local and state government which must bear the costs. States looking to alleviate the fiscal burden have tools at their disposal including: 1) implementing REAL ID standards; 2) denying public benefits; 3) imposing sanctions on employers who hire illegals; and 4) ensuring voters are citizens.
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Sounds like a good idea. I’ve seen on the news that some businesses are now suing some competitors because their hiring of low wage illegals gives them an unfair advantage in the marketplace by enabling them to keep their operating costs artificially low. Quite an advantage when you can get workers for low wages and no benefits (better yet, ‘off the books’)!
You are so ever right. I saw it up close and personal for the last year. When I finally realized I could do nothing to change it at my place of employment, I had to get out.
I think that’s a good idea. Clearly show people graphically how they’re not only paying higher taxes to make up for the drones who are taking more from the public dole than they pay but also how the wages of ALL Americans are being indirectly suppressed.
Did they calculate the cost in terms of the amount of crimes commited by illegals?
Right - and Article IV., Section 4. of the U.S. Constitution is also out the window:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.
Even the amnestyites know it’s an invasion!
I think you guys are right. Tancredo and Hunter (and Lou Dobbs) have tried to alert the nation to the catastrophe. It is NOT a single issue. It’s a cultural rot that gives us higher taxes for prison incarceration, insolvent hospitals, bankrupt public school districts, social welfare services, and the horrendous human and economic costs of the drug cartel. The real tragedy is that business lobbies (U.S. Chamber of Commerce, etc.) who love those low wages with no benefits, ethnocentric pressure groups, and pandering politicians have sold the nation out for their own special interests - and the general welfare be damned!
Our country's leaders are the equivalent of Rome's when it was going downhill fast. No one would ever confuse Jorge Bush with Octavian or even Claudius. He could pass, however, for Elagabalus.
you just described slavery, yet no one seems to care. all businesses want is cheap labor. lets hope we don’t see another civil war over the issue.
So, do any FReepers have contact with Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo or Sen. Jeff Sessions? Pass on this idea and let’s see, if something can be moved.
In california we are leading the race california just laid off 7500 teachers because the state has no money however no cuts were made to the illegals here,libs at it as always they need to be used for medical testing.
You mentioned La Raza. I’m now reading Jonah Goldberg’s fantastic book “Liberal Fascism.” He says that La Raza (”The Race”) and the radical Hispanic group MEChA has as its motto “Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada” which means “Everything for the race, nothing outside the race.” He notes that such a group is in the fascist tradition and compares that with Mussolini’s famous motto: “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” Jonah then poses the question, “Why is it that when a white man spouts such sentiments it’s ‘objectively’ fascist, but when a person of color says the same thing it’s merely an expression of fashionable multiculturalism?”
It’s amazing how much the homicide rate would drop once it’s legalized. By the way, I just saw on a liberal TV station a report that some police are detaing illegals “even if they havn’t done anything illegal.” They omit one unpleasant reality: The very fact that they’re here is an ILLEGAL act!
Exactly - following the absurd reasoning of returning territory to it’s previous occupiers let’s divide Mexico between Spain and the Aztecs!
I wonder if the Ford Foundation would give me millions of dollars if I founded a civil rights organization to advocate for German Americans?
I’ll call it “das Folk”. Our motto could be “ein Folk, ein Vaterland!”
And if you think illegals are expensive now just wait til they are legalized and qualify for every single program we have.
I think so too. We’re well on the way to becoming a Third World bilingual balkanized society. Every time we use the phone, read or hear a public address message, or even many advertisements we are confronted with Spanish. The great American tradition has been that immigrants wanted to assimilate, learn English, and adapt as quickly as possible to American culture in order to become successful and productive. Those days are gone. Now we have bilingual education, affirmative action, and PC catering to groups who are encouraged to maintain a seperate culture and identity.
I supported Tancredo, financially and in any other way possible here in FL, and I think he’s still relevant in American politics even though he’s dropped out of the primary. He’s been very prophetic in the sense that he’s put the issue of illegal immigration on the national agenda of both parties permanently. Before it became a national issue, he spent years as a voice crying in the wilderness. Now his efforts have been vindicated.
The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, compared to 19 percent for native households. The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children.
34 percent of immigrants lack health insurance, compared to 13 percent of natives. Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 71 percent of the increase in the uninsured since 1989. Immigrants make significant progress over time. But even those who have been here for 20 years are more likely to be in poverty, lack insurance, or use welfare than are natives.
The late Henry Ford II was disgusted with what had become of the Foundation - a Leftist propaganda institution but out of Ford’s control. I think you’d have a much better chance of getting millions if you founded an organization called “Reconquista.”
News flash!
They will wind up with the hole... enchilada
Sometime before the end of THIS century they will control all of America.
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