What is the biggest impact of illegal immigration on our society?

Answer 1

Because the number of illegal aliens can only be estimated, similarly the fiscal cost (government budget outlays) for those aliens can only be estimated. Dr. Donald Huddle, a Rice University economics professor, published a systematic analysis of those costs as of 1996. The study also estimated the tax payments of those same aliens.

At that time, the illegal alien population was estimated to be about five million persons. The estimated fiscal cost of those illegal aliens to the federal, state and local governments was about $33 billion. This impact was partially offset by an estimated $12.6 billion in taxes paid to the federal, state and local governments, resulting in a net cost to the American taxpayer of about $20 billion every year. This estimate did not include indirect costs that result from unemployment payments to Americans who lost their jobs to illegal aliens willing to work for lower wages. Nor did it include lost tax collections from those American workers who became unemployed. The study estimated those indirect costs from illegal immigration at an additional $4.3 billion annually.

During the years since that estimate, the illegal alien population is estimated to have roughly doubled, so the estimated fiscal costs also will have at least doubled. Furthermore, the passage of time is accompanied by inflation in the costs of services, e.g., school budgets continue to climb. Therefore, what was estimated to be a cost to the American taxpayer of $33 billion in 1996 today would be at least $70 billion. Similarly, tax collections would have increased — sales taxes at least — so that the net expense to the taxpayer from illegal immigration would currently be at least $45 billion. The indirect fiscal costs would have also increased, especially during a period of already high unemployment, to perhaps and additional $10 billion annually.

Answer 2

The biggest impact is that we actually get to see the racism come out in people. Immigrants from Mexico work just as hard if not harder than some Americans. Bush is granting visas and amnesties for all other countries but not Mexico. I wonder why? Maybe because he is a racist...... Not all Mexicans are drug dealers and kidnappers..

Answer 3

The BIGGEST of course,is the COST,to everyone that pays taxes!! Taxpayers get STUCK with higher medical costs,because illegals come here,use our medical facilities,then do NOT pay their bills! This cost gets absorbed by the hospital,and passed on to consumers!!
We have hospitals closing in Arizona,DIRECTLY due to ILLEGALS! Also,some of the hospitals are having problems getting doctors and nurses to work the e.r.,because they know illegals USE the system,then never PAY,which means THEY lose money working the e.r.'s!
Then,there's the COST to educate the illegals kids! This is money that SHOULD be used for better education for OUR kids!
And,before Arizona voters passed prop200,illegals were allowed to get FOOD STAMPS,AFDC.WIC,LOW-INCOME, HOUSING, FREE SCHOOL LUNCHES,etc,etc,because they were "migrant workers"!! All paid for by the TAXPAYERS!!!

And there's the CRIMINALS taking up space in our jails and prisons,ALSO costing the taxpayers! There's the rapists. murderers, child molesters,druggies,and gang bangers!!! These are people who should NEVER have been here,and WOULDN'T have been,if they'd been screened!!!
And,also,we are LOSING our sovereignty,as a nation!! ILLEGALS are trying to turn America into Amexico!! They MUST be STOPPED!!!

Answer 4

What is the biggest impact of illegal immigration on our society?

Taking off your banks, media and ruled under all names.

Answer 5

Degraded education and health services for our own people as the services we subsidize for even the poor who pay all taxes are over strained and underfunded to accommodate the stream of non-English speaking children of illegal immigrants. The unaffordable health insurance for those who are expected to pay for health care is another big problem. However, in my opinion degradation of good public education for our children will have much bigger ramifications in terms of reduced upward mobility.

We will become an upper crust and a huge lower class at the mercy of the big employers as our labor market is opened to the poor masses of the world.

Answer 6

You mean besides breaking the law to be here and other laws such as using fake or stolen ID and stealing benefits that our for our citizens and those here legally? And if you don't include the stealing of jobs that Americans should be doing and helping those who hire them to break the law, and stealing our low income housing for our people, and overcrowding the schools, and the cost of having to print things in other than English, and draining ALL of our resources. And of course messing up our English language by making us having to press "1" for English? Well then I would say very very little

DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS

ENGLISH ONLY IN AMERICA

Answer 7

They allow you to eat cheap food actually grown here in the US, unlike Europe that has no labor and has to import nearly everything and spend many times what you do on groceries.

US ag is toast without immigration. It should be legal, but we need it regardless.

Answer 8

That is hard to measure. But I would lean toward higher insurance auto/health since illegals cannot get a license. And higher law enforcemtent costs.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Drain tax dollars and lower wages.

Illegal mexican's come in and sh*t like 15 kids out that go to our school's but don't speak any english so we have to pay more to teach them in Mexican. They also work for 10% of what an american makes so they drive wages down. And since they work for so little they can't afford health insurance for the 15 kids they sh*t out so we get to pay for that too.

Oh yeah, they get paid in cash and don't pay taxes.