Why report illegals? Did you know that illegals are costing you BILLIONS in taxes?

Question

From www.fairus.org
FAIR estimates the current local annual costs of illegal immigration from just three program areas — educating the children in public primary and secondary schools, providing medical services in emergency rooms, and incarceration — amount to about $36 billion. If the population of foreign low wage workers is allowed to increase as a result of not effectively denying new illegal immigrants access American jobs, current illegal immigrants are allowed to stay and bring their relatives to join them, and additional low wage workers are allowed into the country in a new guest worker program the costs to local communities will increase. Our estimate is that the annual fiscal costs in 2010 would increase by nearly 70 percent to $61.5 billion for just these same three program areas. The amount would swell by an additional nearly 73 percent to $106.3 billion by 2020.

Answer 1

We will be saving a ton when the bus leaves.

Answer 2

Well, if it's true that illegals only do the "dirty" work that no one else wants to do, they are probably only earning minimum wage. If that is the case, then they aren't contributing nearly enough to pay for the education of all the children they bring here, all the free medical care, costs of incarceration, cost of border patrols and immigration authorities (and the list goes on and on).

Answer 3

Those numbers are spun, unfortunately. Immigrants pay MORE in taxes than US born Americans. Even ILLEGAL immigrants are, on aggregate, paying more into the system than they are taking out. For a dispassionate assessment of the impact, look this up yourself.

You noticed yourself that fairus.org estimates the cost from "just three programs", what do you think motivated them to limit the numbers to those three areas? Did they want to make the total impact look SMALLER?

Immigration is a problem of laws not being followed, not an economic problem. Ask your President!

Answer 4

Only if you assume that a guest worker program wouldn't involve taxation. And most illegal immigrants that have stable jobs also have fake SSN's. The IRS collects taxes on fake SSN's. And those that have fake SSN's don't file tax returns and receive no refunds on the taxes they pay. The FAIR estimates are not legitimate estimates and are based on a highly biased and skewed research. They omit the above facts.

Answer 5

Thats a lie. Illegal immigrants pay taxes and dont get a refund at the end of the year, if anything, you should be going to them and thanking them for our nice roads and parks!

Answer 6

however you failed to mention how much illegal immagrants contribute to the US economy and that fact outways the drain on the economy, if you really are worried about the economy then you should look at our industry, we have an amazingly large trade deficit with many countries around the world, including with china, which is well on its way to becoming the worlds next superpower. and then there is the war on terror wich is draining countless billions from our, and other nations economies

Answer 7

Just another program for the rich! They get the serf labor to make billions, you get to pay the tab!!

Answer 8

aramos.. Yes, Illegals put into the system.. However, they drain more than they put in.

Just admit that you're a freeloader and get on with your "amnesty protest."

Pathetic!

--Rob

Answer 9

Ah, what's 106.3 billion among friends? Not YOUR friends. Bush's....

Answer 10

I knew it. People need to realize that they don't save us money, they cost us money. I live in California and I could tell you that this was true.