The Third War: The Cost of Illegal Immigration

by Dave Connell (American Legion Volunteer)

May 27, 2008

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?  Read this:

1.  $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.

Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2.  $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3.  $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4.  $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5.  $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. 

Verify at:

 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. 

Verify at:  http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9.  $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

Verify at:  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Verify at: 

Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12.  The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.' [However, mass deportation earns US taxpayers a net savings well over $200 billion annually - See Safe America Act]

Verify at:: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. [This removes an estimated $31.5 billion in tax receipts from the US economy - revenues lost when money fails to re-circulate in US the economy but instead shifts offshore].

Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14.  'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Are Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.'

Verify at: 

http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html#Illegals

http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 billion per year!

Note: Safe America Act eliminates all these negative costs to taxpayers and actually places or protects between $1 - $7 trillion back into US coffers (Learn more).