From a recent article, Cost of Illegal Immigration Rising Rapidly in Arizona, Study Finds:
FAIR's new breakdown shows that illegal immigrants take $1.6 billion from Arizona's education system, $694.8 million from health care services, $339.7 million in law enforcement and court costs, $85.5 million in welfare costs and $155.4 million in other general costs.
From a 2007 article, $2.2 trillion illegal alien taxpayer sticker shock:
A household headed by an individual without a high school education, including about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.
Over the course of the household's lifetime that tax burden translates to $1.1 million.
If the lower figure of 12 million illegal aliens is used for estimation purposes, the total tax burden translates to $2.2 trillion.
$2.2 trillion illegal alien taxpayer sticker shock, World Net Daily
From a 2004 article, California's Illegal Aliens Cost Taxpayers Nearly $9 Billion A Year:
California's nearly 3 million illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $9 billion each year, according to a new report released last week by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
Educating the children of illegal immigrants is the largest cost, estimated at $7.7 billion each year, according to the report. Medical care for illegal immigrants and incarceration of those who have committed crimes are the next two largest expenses measured in the study.
From another good article, The High Cost of Cheap Labor:
Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household.
If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes and use services like households headed by legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual net fiscal deficit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 billion.
Costs increase dramatically because unskilled immigrants with legal status -- what most illegal aliens would become -- can access government programs, but still tend to make very modest tax payments.
The High Cost of Cheap Labor: Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, Center for Immigration Studies
From a 2010 article, Mexico’s Calderon Scolds Arizona While Mooching from U.S. Taxpayers:
Remittances sent by Mexicans topped $15.5 billion in the first few months of this year, 20 percent higher than the amount sent during the same period the previous year, according to Mexico’s central bank, and this year’s annual figure is expected to hit a new record.
Savings scraped together by nannies, painters and others working abroad are now Mexico’s second-largest source of foreign revenue, after oil exports and ahead of tourism, according to analysts interviewed by the WSJ.
During a time when American citizens are struggling with unemployment and debt, the government continues to waste our money on things the majority of Americans are opposed to! Instead of using our tax dollars to secure the border, the US government uses our money to support illegal immigrants. It's emptying our pockets and drowning our schools.
Good Related Reading Material:
- Kevin Colby: The cost of illegal immigrants to the American taxpayer [iCyte]
- FOXNews: Cost of Illegal Immigration Rising Rapidly in Arizona, Study Finds
- World Net Daily: $2.2 trillion illegal alien taxpayer sticker shock
- Diggers Realm: California's Illegal Aliens Cost Taxpayers Nearly $9 Billion A Year
- Center for Immigration Studies: The High Cost of Cheap Labor
- AIM: Mexico’s Calderon Scolds Arizona While Mooching from U.S. Taxpayers [iCyte]
