How much does illegal immigration cost us?

Answer 1

The amount is untold and incalcuable.
It could very well cost us our country and our lives.

Answer 2

WELL IF YOU WANT TO GET TECHNICAL, THE COST IS JUST BELOW THE LINE OF WHAT EVERY BODY THINKS IT REALLY IS, THEY DO HELP THE ECONOMY BY BUYING WHAT THEY NEED AND SENDING THE REST TO THEIR FAMILY. EVERYONE THINKS THAT BY HAVING THEM HERE THEY WILL RUIN OUR SYSTEM ....PEOPLE ARE SYSTEM WAS ****** UP TO BEGIN WITH. OFFER THEM A WORK VISA WITH CERTAIN EXCEPTS THEY WOULD HAVE TO PAY A GUESS WORKER TAXAND HAVE NO CRIMINAL RECORD , IN ORDER FOR THEM TO RECIEVE A DRIVER'S LIC. AND THAT THE EMPLOYER'S HAVE TO START A MEDICAL COVERAGE PROGRAM FOR THEIR GUEST EMPLOYEE OR WILL BE SERVED WITH A SEVERE FINE BY THE I.R.S AND IMMIGRATION. THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AFRAID TO EXTEND A HELPING HAND TO OUR NEIGHBORS FROM ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE, HELL WILL GO AND OFFER US AID TO ALL THESE FOREIGN LANDS , EVEN THE ONES WHO CANT STAND US. OH ! BY THE WAY MEXICO HAS NEVER BEEN A REAL THREAT TO US , JUST ASK THE CANADIANS THEY HAVE AN OPEN DOOR POLICY? HOW DO YOU THINK THOSE 9/11 HIGHJACKERS GOT IN THE U.S. IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Answer 3

depends if theyre caugh,transportaion to send back,feeding them,clothing them, medical care if needed,plus equipt/utilities used to hold them ie. electricity,cells,etc.and countless man hours to guard them. it could cost almost 1500 a day for every person at the minimum. If there not caught look how much doesnt have to be used.Honestly the jobs they get who are they hurting? How many illegal immigrants walk into a CEO's office and take their job. The job's they get are usually agricultural,or vendors. Few even provide to fix vehicles. How many truckdrivers, managers of business,doctors,teachers,EMT's, lost their jobs cause of them?

Answer 4

billions of dollars.
but that is money going INTO the economy.

illegal immigrants, whether we like it or not, are driving this country.
they come here to get money to give to their families still living in mexico, so their children are as hungry when the go to bed at night. they grow and pick our food, they clean our toilets, and take out our garbage. they are doing jobs that most people would and will refuse to do for minimum wage or less. they arent ruining healthcare because they dont have it, or anything like it.
if we were to ship them all back across the border, our economy would collapse.

Answer 5

Think about how much its saving you, not how much its costing the government, cause if they arent spending it on 'illegal immigrants', theyre (the government) just gonna put it in their pockets anyway!

Answer 6

We are NOT talking about "immigration", PEOPLE!! We are talking about "ILLEGAL" immigration!!

According to TNRIP, the financial cost of this foreign invasion to U.S. taxpayers is staggering! Here is a break down of the annual costs:

Education: $22.5 billion
Bi-lingual Education: $3.3 billion
AFDC: $2.4 billion
SSI: $2.9 billion
Social Security: $24.8 billion
Housing Assistance: $2.6 billion
Criminal Justice: $2.6 billion
Jobs Lost by Americans: $10.8 billion
Other Programs: $51.4 billion
Food Stamps: $7 billion
Health Care: $1.4 billion (That Totals $131.7 BILLION Annually)

Not to mention the diseases illegal immigrants bring into the USA because they are UN-screened. Legal immigrants are screened. Many diseases, once eradicated, are now showing up such as the return of Polio, Hepatitus, Tuberculosis and others, some which have NO CURE!!http://newswithviews.com/Cosman/madeleine3.htm

If we gave amnesty to the 11million (plus) illegal immigrants, our tax deficit would actually increase due to the fact that the largest percentage are poorly educated and, although they would pay a small amount in taxes, they would still qualify for welfare and would likely get back all they paid in. All those that were hiding would come out and get federally funded assistance. It would only get worse.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

Wake UP People!! Get Your Heads Out of Your BUTTS!! The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS are as bad as any "Weapon of MASS Destruction". They are destroying our economy, abusing our tax paid services such as food stamps, AFDC, free or low cost health care, subsidized housing, which were in place for LEGAL USA citizens who paid taxes for them. They cause wages to plummet by taking jobs at slave wages that U.S. American citizens did and will do again for a livable wage as they were getting before illegal immigrants slithered across our border and took the jobs for half what the producers paid Americans. There is no job Americans won't do. Americans still work those jobs in places where illegal immigrants are not as abundant. They seek free health care in hospitals, the hospitals have to bear the costs and 100's of great hospitals have had to close their doors. Crime is high due to criminals escaping persecution in their homelands by coming across our southern border with Mexico.they suck up billions in Americans hard earned, tax paid, federally funded services and they are not even legal citizens.

*SECURE OUR BORDERS
*DEPORT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVADERS
*NO AMNESTY!!
*PROSECUTE ANYONE WHO HIRES
ILLEGAL INVADERS
*NO DOCUMENTATION=NO SCHOOL, NO FREE HEALTH CARE, NO FOOD STAMPS, NO AFDC, NO SUBSIDIZED HOUSING, NO EDUCATION, NO SPANISH CLASSES,
*NO MORE DRIVING WITHOUT LICENSE OR INSURANCE (NO LICENSE OR AUTO INSURANCE FOR ANYONE WHO CANNOT PROVE LEGALITY)
*NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!!

Answer 7

If you have a job, it is costing you nothing. Only the people wanting minimum wage jobs are suffering at the borders. They have no influence on your health-care because they have none. Even if they exported them all back to Mexico you will see no change at all in taxes or wages.

Answer 8

Immigration actually has helped the macro economy overall.

Answer 9

Five trillion, 6 billion, 23 million and 23 cents.

OH and two dollars and 31 cents......just found that out.

Answer 10

$0.00

It's actually a good thing for the Economy.

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