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Illegal Immigration - a $113 Billion a Year Drain on U.S. Taxpayers
Federation for American Immigration Reform ^ | July 6, 2010

Posted on 07/07/2010 2:35:46 AM PDT by T.L.Sink

A new study, released today, by FAIR says that illegal immigration now costs federal, state and local taxpayers $113 billion a year. The report is the most comprehensive analysis of how much the estimated 13 million illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children cost federal, state and local governments. The report also accounts for taxes paid by illegal aliens. And the study also notes that we would have realized significantly higher revenues if the jobs held by illegal aliens had been filled by legal U.S. residents. In 18 states, expenditures on illegal aliens EXCEEDED the size of those states' budget deficits in FY 2009! Dan Stein, president of FAIR, said, "The report examines virtually every federal, state and local program to determine the impact of illegal immigration on the bottom line. The bottom line is $113 billion a year - and growing. Illegal immigration is one of the LARGEST preventable burdens borne by American taxpayers."

(Excerpt) Read more at fairus.org ...


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By the way, the study said Arizona's annual cost of illegal immigration is $2.5 billion annually. This is the state Obama is suing because he deliberately refuses to allow the national government to enforce the federal laws restricting illegal immigration already on the books! Arizonans are faced with huge and increasing taxes for bankrupt public school districts, insolvent hospitals, out-of-control social welfare services, prison incarceration and the murder and mayhem of the drug cartel. But Obama and his minions don't give a damn - not with all those votes they can grab! But with his trillions in national debt and deficits as far as the eye can see, we're all headed for Third World status anyway. The border states will just get there a little sooner.
1 posted on 07/07/2010 2:35:48 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

The Governors of all 50 States (Or 57 depending on who’s counting) should bill Mexico for the money annually.


2 posted on 07/07/2010 2:41:01 AM PDT by Enterprise (As a disaster unfolds, a putz putts.)
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To: Enterprise

Exactly right - since we’re broke and Obama has cost us more billions because he was too incompetent to deal with the oil spill and curtail a lot of the damage at the outset, Mexico is in better fiscal shape than we are.


3 posted on 07/07/2010 2:54:58 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: All
Mexico is throwing its worthless citizens over the border and is cuing them on how to drain the US Treasury. There are any number of schemes being used.

Man ordered to repay $3M in Calif employment fraud
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 26, 2010
FR Posted by artichokegrower

A former Marysville resident has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay back $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment compensation. U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner says 31-year-old Manuel Mejia Ordonez was sentenced Friday to eight years and one month in prison for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and identity theft. (Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...

QUESTION How does a citizen of Mexico make $3 million in unemployment claims?

ANSWER By establishing multiple identities.

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Illegal Jose Madrigal, the Washington state rapist, had some 30 identities.

EACH FAKE IDENTITY COLLECTS US GOVT FREEEBIES,
--- AND AS EVERY DESPERATE DEMOCRAT KNOWS ---
EACH FAKE IDENTITY VOTES AND VOTES AND VOTES

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The Obama admin continues to tolerate this ntl-security nightmare of illegals using multiple identities for fear of offending the Mexican government, the National Council of La Raza, and other immigrant advocates....all of whom are providing Democrat voters to endangered Dems. This outrage is burdening taxpayers and polluting our election system----b/c these criminals adopt multiple fraudulent identities.

Evidence shows illegals establish several identities with phony SS nos and fake documents (which these "poor immigrants" buy from document brokers for several thousand dollars). Illegals also get their anchor babies SS nos. They then use the SS nos to establish fake identities.

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RIDING THE US GRAVY TRAIN---THE SAGA OF PEDRO An illegal alien w/ wife and five children violates our borders. He gets a job mowing loans for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that low wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, so each year, he files an Income Tax Return to get "EITC---earned income credit" of up to $3,200 scot-free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies for food stamps and no deductible, no co-pay free health care. His children get free school breakfasts and lunches. The kids qualify for monthly SSI checks by faking ADD; the illegal and his wife get SSI by faking being aged, blind or disabled; SSI qualifies them for Medicare.

Plus illegals don't have to worry about pricey items like car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance, and they qualify for relief from high energy bills.

ALL OF THAT IS COLLECTED WITH JUST ONE IDENTITY

DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR OBAMACARE It is presently against the law to refuse healthcare to illegals. Illegal aliens actually bump US citizens for healthcare. Mexico, the country that is the staging area for illegal invasions, has long-promoted America’s generous public health centers.

Mexico operates Ventanillas de Salud---a Spanish-language program---in about 12 US cities that refers its nationals on US soil illegally---to clinics where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.”

4 posted on 07/07/2010 2:55:40 AM PDT by Liz
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Welcome back!


5 posted on 07/07/2010 2:56:00 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: Liz

Very good post and very appropriate the source came from Mexifornia! That place has been a perfect illustration of the path NOT to follow for decades. I’m waiting to hear from Arnold any day now to make an appeal for foreign aid - since his Third World enclave is now Chapter 11!


6 posted on 07/07/2010 3:04:41 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

It should be obvious by now that Barack Obama’s disastrous Cloward-Piven economic policies were not meant to lift the economy. The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were two lifelong members of Democratic Socialists of America who taught sociology at Columbia University (Piven later went on to City University of New York). In a May 1966 Nation magazine article titled “The Weight of the Poor,” they outlined their strategy, proposing to use grassroots radical organizations to push ever more strident demands for public services at all levels of government.

The result, they predicted, would be “a profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces ... for major economic reform at the national level.”

It should be clear to anyone with a mind and two eyes that this president and this Congress do not have our interests at heart. They are implementing this strategy on an unprecedented scale by flooding America with a tidal wave of poisonous initiatives, orders, regulations, and laws. As Rahm Emmanuel said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”

The real goal of “health care” legislation, the real goal of “cap-and-trade,” and the real goal of the “stimulus” is to rip the guts out of our private economy and transfer wide swaths of it over to the government to control. Do not be deluded by the propaganda. These initiatives are vehicles for change. They are not goals in and of themselves except in their ability to deliver power. They and will make matters much worse, for that is their design.

This time, in addition to overwhelming the government with demands for services, Obama and the Democrats are overwhelming political opposition to their plans with a flood of apocalyptic legislation. Their ultimate goal is to leave us so discouraged, demoralized, and exhausted that we throw our hands up in defeat. As Barney Frank said, “the middle class will be too distracted to fight.”

These people are our enemies. They don’t use guns, yet, but they are just as dangerous, determined, and duplicitous as the communists we faced in the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, and bush wars across the globe, and the Nazis we faced in World War II.

11/23/09 Obama’s Cloward-Piven Strategy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2392752/posts


7 posted on 07/07/2010 3:13:48 AM PDT by anglian
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To: T.L.Sink
I’m waiting to hear from Arnold any day now to make an appeal for foreign aid - since his Third World enclave is now Chapter 11!

The California government's "money machine" to buy votes was engineered in the 1970s when the legislature cleared the way for public-employee unions to organize and bargain. Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the crucial bill in 1978.

Gov Schwarzenegger tried to fix the problem. In 2005, he proposed ending state employees' generous defined-benefit pensions by setting up 401(k)-style plans for new state hires. He collected 400,000 signatures for a special-election ballot measure toward that end. Did a grateful public rally behind Schwarzenegger? Short answer: No.

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8 posted on 07/07/2010 3:23:53 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Thanks for the information and the good humor. I noticed you mentioned Jerry “moonbeam” Brown. “Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to relive it.” - Santayana
The fact that he’s still around and running is even funnier than your Arnold parody! Who ever said soap operas don’t really reflect reality!


9 posted on 07/07/2010 3:47:01 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: anglian

What you say sounds like Glenn Beck, especially about Cloward-Piven. Could be. But it strikes me that Obama is just a plain old unimaginative socialist. I think the collapse and chaos will come spontaneously and uncontrived from his natural incompetence. Still....


10 posted on 07/07/2010 3:57:09 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: Enterprise
The Governors of all 50 States (Or 57 depending on who’s counting) should bill Mexico for the money annually.

It's 57 if you're counting the states in The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
11 posted on 07/07/2010 5:23:40 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: Liz

Thanks for documenting some of the touted ‘family values’ of illegal aliens.


12 posted on 07/07/2010 5:57:29 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: All

TIP OF THE ICEBERG
READ THIS:
http://www.p2fe.com/wagner12-5-06.html


13 posted on 07/07/2010 6:52:30 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: algernonpj; patriot08

If you guys aren’t familiar with it you should go to the Heritage site and check out the extensive, well-researched and highly acclaimed study done by Robert Rector. This was done a few years back and from an analysis of present data he extrapolated into the future. His conclusion was that, if not restricted, illegal immigration would collapse the entire economic and social infrastructure of America in about 20 years. His study was cited by Sen. Jeff Sessions on the Senate floor during the Comprehensive Immigration bill (a/k/a amnesty) debate in ‘06. He’s appeared on C-Span and many other media outlets. Everything he mentioned in his study is thus far right on-track and coming to fruition as forecasted. But we choose to ignore every warning. “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” - Arnold Toynbee


14 posted on 07/07/2010 1:22:33 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: patriot08

Thanks for the link.


15 posted on 07/08/2010 6:39:44 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: T.L.Sink

Thanks


16 posted on 07/08/2010 6:44:04 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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