Some immigrants are productive and make us richer, but others need to be subsidized in a less than break even capacity. Wall Street should know all about being subsidized. Oh, and don’t look now, but the illegals coming over here now are not the hard working immigrants that came to help granddad get the cotton in. They are more likely to need housing assistance, education for their children, subsidized healthcare, food stamps, and then they are more likely to commit crimes, and spend time in our prisons. They will steal IDs, cars; rape our children; drive drunk with no insurance; break into our homes, and drive up unemployment. But Wall Street will be happy.
Bus a thousand illegals a day to Wall Street and the neighborhoods where liberal bankers and traders live. They would change their corrupt minds.
In addition, there are crimes of violence, property crimes like vandalism, or other acts like gang activity, drug offenses, and drunk driving. Even John McCain estimated that there were two million criminal aliens who must be deported immediately. A March 2011 GAO study, Criminal Alien Statistics, found the following:
The number of criminal aliens in federal prisons in fiscal year 2010 was about 55,000 [one fourth of the total population,] and the number of SCAAP criminal alien incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails was about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009 (the most recent data available)…
Based on our random sample, GAO estimates that the criminal aliens had an average of 7 arrests, 65 percent were arrested at least once for an immigration offense, and about 50 percent were arrested at least once for a drug offense…About 40 percent of individuals convicted as a result of DOJ terrorism-related investigations were aliens…GAO estimates that costs to incarcerate criminal aliens in federal prisons and SCAAP reimbursements to states and localities ranged from about $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion annually from fiscal years 2005 through 2009.
The GAO report listed 25,064 arrests for homicide by criminal aliens. There have been estimates that over 50,000 Americans have been killed by criminal aliens since 9/11. Criminal alien crime has affected millions of Americans who have been the real victims of the lawbreakers. Who speaks for them? Citizens have a right to expect their government to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities and protect them from what amounts to a foreign invasion.
The serious national security threats posed by illegal aliens involve terrorism and drugs. Former FBI Director Mueller testified before Congress in 2006 about Hezbollah operations on the Mexican border. In 2009 outgoing CIA head Michael Hayden stated that the threat of a narco-state in Mexico was one of the gravest dangers to American security, on a par with a nuclear-armed Iran. Four of the 9/11 terrorists were illegal aliens who overstayed their visas—the source of 40 percent of the 12 to 20 million illegal alien population.
There has been a confluence of interests between drugs, illegal immigration, and terrorism. The systems for moving terrorists illegally across the border have become increasingly sophisticated, with Mexican drug kingpins now playing a major facilitating role using the same routes and methods to bring in illegal aliens and drugs.