the average Americans citizens
to grant amnesty......this guy speaks for a lot of people....
Posted on 02/10/2018 8:20:02 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
A new map posted by HowMuch.net breaks down the economic toll of illegal immigrants state by state, and their findings are extremely troubling.
Using information gathered from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, How Much’s map shows how much money illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers on a state-by-state basis.
California is most devastated by the heavy toll, with a whopping $23 billion in that state alone.
States closer to the Mexican border are most affected, but several states throughout the country still pay billions to support illegal immigrants through education, welfare, law enforcement, and medical care.
The map doesn’t include federal costs.
According to the Washington Examiner, when federal costs are included, illegal immigrants cost $135 billion a year.
Liberals like to justify their opposition to the deportation of illegal immigrants due to their estimations of initial costs for actually enforcing our federal immigration laws.
But considering that current data suggests over a trillion dollars spent supporting illegal immigrants a decade, leftist arguments that deportation is too expensive crumble rather quickly.
Furthermore, Democrats like to point out that illegal immigrants pay some taxes, such as sales tax. According to the social security administration, about 3.4 million illegal immigrants (out of 11.1 million people illegally residing in the U.S.) pay social security taxes.
However, the How Much map takes into account taxes paid by illegal immigrants. So the costs represented on the map fall entirely to legal U.S. residents’ taxes.
The Washington Examiner continues:
The costs cover added expenditures for education, welfare, law enforcement, and medical care.
When federal costs are included, the price tag nationally soars to $135 billion a year.
FAIR’s data also includes the offset of taxes paid by illegal immigrants, though the numbers are much lower. In the state and local column, they are $3.5 billion. Nationally they are $15 billion.
Overall, costs associated with illegal immigrants is much higher for state and local governments than the federal government. States pay $89 billion, Uncle Sam $46 billion.
Below are the ten states most heavily weighed by the cost of illegal immigration:
1. California – $23,038,125,353
2. Texas – $10,994,614,550
3. New York – $7,489,141,357
4. Florida – $6,290,429,108
5. New Jersey – $4,466,838,574
6. Illinois – $3,220,767,517
7. Georgia – $2,487,719,503
8. North Carolina – $2,437,965,113
9. Maryland – $2,378,996,947
10. Arizona – $2,314,131,964
HowMuch.net also explains why some states are more heavily affected than others, citing proximity to the border and overall population:
First, states that spend the most on illegal immigration tend to be located close to Mexico. Looking at out map, the two states with the highest expenditures are California ($23B) and Texas ($11B), both sharing long borders with Mexico. In fact, there’s a cluster of dark red states stretching along the Southwest. States closest to the phenomenon pay the most as a result.
Second, states with higher population levels tend to spend more than their less populated counterparts. You can see a group of high-expenditure states clustered around the Northeast, not to mention Illinois and Florida. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, California and Texas are also the two most populous states in the country. High population levels and proximity to Mexico act like a double-whammy for illegal immigration expenses.
Now take a look at the places with relatively low levels of expenditures for illegal immigration, the light blue states. They are all located far away from the U.S.-Mexico border with relatively small population levels. West Virginia is perhaps an exceptional state, seeing that it is surrounded by red and dark red. We can speculate that this is likely due to the fact that West Virginia has a struggling economy which actually contracted last year.
Are Democrats willing to continue this sort of spending for years to come?
The president should tweet this - it is staggering. This money could have built one heck of a wall.
Interesting. Twitter would not let me tweet the source link of the article - though I tried several methods. Message that I was an automated bot. But tweeted the post on freerepublic. And it got through.
Something rotten here.
Oooo! BURN! LOL! :)
“...considering that illegals send TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars out of the country to their families back in Central America.”
Makes me crazy when I see a bunch of them at Walmart, wiring money, ‘home.’
Where TF is ICE? They’re RIGHT THERE! Round ‘em up, Head ‘em OUT!
California spends about $575 for every resident. The cost to a family of 4 is over $2,000 per year for illegals.
The illegals use disproportionately more resources for combatting crime, free health care, etc.
*BUMP*
Absolutely unbelievable how my country responds to an illegal invasion. The slow sword really does penetrate the shield.
JoMa
Sending this to all on my contact list 😡😡😡
Nancy’s fancy friends.
the average Americans citizens
to grant amnesty......this guy speaks for a lot of people....
Brilliant idea, and if ICE followed your advice, I think you ought’a get a reward of reasonable percentage of illegal alien fraudulently sending home SIXTY NINE BILLION dollars a year to Mexico and other disfunctional shithole countries.
RE: “Makes me crazy when I see a bunch of them at Walmart, wiring money, ‘home.’
Where TF is ICE? They’re RIGHT THERE! Round ‘em up, Head ‘em OUT!”
Last year, a record amount in remittances was sent home by Latin American and Caribbean migrants.
Ryan Eskalis/NPR
Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean are sending more money to their families back home than ever before.
These annual “remittances” — as they’re called by analysts — topped $69 billion in 2016, according to central bank data compiled in a new report by the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank. The money has been a lifeline for the national economies of many countries in the region since at least the 1990s, when Manuel Orozco, a political scientist who authored the report, first began tracking remittances. They climbed steadily since then, only to plummet when the Great Recession hit the U.S. economy in 2008. But they began to rise again in 2012. The 2016 tally is the highest amount on record and an increase of nearly 8 percent over 2015.
About 40 percent of the money goes to just one country — Mexico — practically all of it sent by migrants in the United States. The recent surge is all the more notable because migration from Mexico has slowed to a crawl — with the number of migrants in the U.S. increasing by just 1 percent between 2010 and 2016 to a total of 11.8 million. Also, says Orozco, the median amount that any given Mexican migrant sends hasn’t changed — about $300 at a go, 14 times a year, most commonly through a money transfer company such as Western Union.
So what accounts for this surge in cash to Mexico? Orozco explains that a much larger share of Mexicans already in the United States are now wiring money back. In 2010 fewer than half of Mexican migrants sent money home. Today two-thirds do.
Bkmrk
The liberal media doesn’t like to report it but a full THIRD of all welfare recipients reside in one state - CALIFORNIA!!
$135,000,000,000 annual cost of illegal immigration
<- 35,000,000,000> cost of the wall
$100,000,000,000. Annual savings
One of the retired firefighters hubby worked with wound up in a small burg in Missouri somewhere. Hubby asked him why he went there. He said he just kept driving until when he stopped he didn’t hear someone speaking Spanish anymore.
tax the remittances build the wall
Ping
$23 Billion for Illegals in California? Wow, Moonbeam could divert that money to build another 1/2 mile of his choo-choo to nowhere!
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