should the us get rid of illegals?

Answer 1

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The Estimated Cost of Illegal Immigration






Illegal alien workers may increase profits for employers, but they are costly to the American taxpayer. Most illegal aliens have low educational attainment, few skills, and they work for low wages, often in the underground economy where they pay no taxes on their earnings. Since about three million illegal aliens gained legal status in the amnesty of 1986, the flow of illegal immigration has increased, and today that population is estimated at 9-11 million illegal alien residents in the country. The former Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that the illegal alien population was increasing by about half a million aliens per year in 2000.

The Huddle Study
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 (see table below). 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.

1996 Costs Table from the Huddle Study 1

Programs
(billions)

Public Education K-12 $5.85

Public Higher Education $0.71

ESL and Bilingual Education $1.22

Food Stamps $0.85

AFDC $0.50

Housing $0.61

Social Security $3.61

Earned Income Tax Credit $0.68

Medicaid $3.12

Medicare A and B $0.58

Criminal Justice and Corrections $0.76

Local Government $5.00

Other Programs $9.25

Total Costs
$32.74

Less Taxes Paid
$12.59

Net Costs of Direct Services
$20.16

Displacement Costs
$4.28

All Net Costs
$24.44





Other More Recent Estimates
Other estimates have been done on components of the cost of illegal immigration. For example, FAIR estimated in 2003 that the cost of K-12 education for illegal alien children was at least $7.4 billion annually (see Breaking the Piggybank). This would be less than double the about $5.9 billion estimate above, but would be of the same order of magnitude. FAIR’s 2004 report on the medical expenses incurred because of illegal immigration (see The Sinking Lifeboat) shows uncompensated costs in excess of one billion dollars.

The cost of incarceration of illegal aliens in state prisons has also risen rapidly. In fiscal year ’02, the Department of Justice’s State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) distributed $550 million to the states to help defray their expenses, but this was estimated to cover only about one fifth of their outlays. Between FY'99 and FY'02, alien detention increased by 45 percent (from about 69,300 inmate years to over 100,300 inmate years), and that trend is continuing. These expenses do not include the costs of illegal aliens incarcerated in federal prisons, public safety expenditures, detention pending trial, expenses of trial proceedings, interpretation, public defenders, or the incarceration expenses of immigrants for minor offenses that do not meet the standards of the SCAPP reimbursement program. Therefore, it is clear that outlays for Criminal Justice and Corrections costs is today much greater than double the 1996 estimate.

While the cost of outlays for illegal aliens may be shifted by legislation among the levels of government and the private sector, the fact remains that illegal immigration creates an enormous fiscal burden on America and its citizens — a burden that Congress has levied upon us through short-sighted and haphazard immigration policy and succeeding administrations have aggravated by spotty enforcement of the law.

A Call for Action
Americans should demand that Congress and the administration work together to establish control over our borders and the interior of the country so that we have the assurance that aliens, whether immigrants or visitors, are legally present in the country. That objective is of vital importance for the sake of national security as well as for the impact on our tax bills.





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The Net National Costs of Immigration: Fiscal Effects of Welfare Restorations to Legal Immigrants, Donald Huddle, Rice University, 1997.


Updated 2/04

Answer 2

With somewhere between 12 and 20 million illegals, it would not be practical, can't happen, what are you going to do, use the army and hunbt them down? We can't even settle down one city in Iraq. Should we do something about them? Sure we SHOULD...can we? No, even the federal government has backed off the issue because it was a phony issue to begin with. The Bush administration doesn't care about illegals; it just wanted to cause a stir so people wouldn't concentrate on what is happening in Iraq and in Washington, where your government has economically trashed the future of our nation to the tune of 9 trilliopn dollars plus...the tipping point was 8.5 trillion, and we are beyond that. Illegal aliens are far down on the list of problems that need solving. We are in a war that was caused by inytelligence that the President knew was false, yet he went right on quoting false facts. Collin Powell is no longer in the government because he was so cheesed off about it. We are nearing 3000 dead, and 15000wounds and maimed. Oil companies have huge record profits month after month all of a sudden, and yet we are paying a dollar more a gallon than we need to. Kids are straving and even dying in America because of programs the government cancelled, and yet, illegal aliens is a problem suddenly? Out of the blue? There have been illegal aliens in this country since The Mexican-American War!!!! All of a sudden it is a huge problem? I seriously doubt it. If you review the news for the past three years, you can see these sudden issues appearing and then disappearing over and over and over again! Health Care crisis? Social Security Crisis? Educatrion Crisis? Illegal Alien Crisis? None of it was solved. It just floated away. Even Terri Schiavo death watch was part of it with the government poking their nose in. It was the top story! So illegal aliens, it just doesn't matter all that much.

Answer 3

we are able to and we are making a distinction by all our abdomen aching approximately this situation. each and each individuals could make a distinction. shrink your very own backyard. Diaper your very own toddler. attempt and hire US voters till now you pass finding for some unlawful. do no longer do corporation with agencies that hire or use those that seem unlawful. Or ask approximately it and point out that the artwork stress does not talk very solid English. Why is that? Are they legal? Press biz proprietors responsibly and tell em' you ain't going to consume there as plenty or in any respect cuz the guy down the line hires US voters. placed your money the place your mouth and heart are. Write your reps in government and tell em' your uninterested and your vote casting them out if the situation isn't rectified quickly, and then DO IT. deliver the do no longer something, solid for naughts out! Get some human beings in who will do something. Write Jeff classes, Sen. from Arkansas (?)THis guy is dying on unlawful immigration. THis guy is looking the suitable suited questions and doing what something would desire to be doing. help this guy and those like him. do no longer enable illegals harm out with their crimes. while undesirable stuff happens and an obtrusive unlawful is in touch, insist on them being rounded up and deported. Pitch a in good shape in case you may desire to. i'm interior the middle of doing this precise now and that i will inform you, the officers in touch are very annoying approximately how they provide the effect of being, no longer doing their jobs right. you will desire to verify them skuttle to disguise their very own butts. This attitude will artwork. those unlawful individuals are comprehensive right here. we are triumphing yet we would desire to proceed to call for our rights to regulation and order. The squeaky wheel gets the oil. Do something on your very own life. some little ingredient to set issues precise. think of approximately it. YOU ALL can carry out a little small ingredient to help us do away with the illegals and return our u . s . to a pair semblance of stability and sanity extremely than this lawless chaos of unlawful immigration. now's the time to act!

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Yes. Carnaby - the deportation costs will still be far less than they cost us while living here. Also, I think that when they are apprehended and found to have money on them, their money should be taken to pay towards the cost of their deportation. I understand many of them carry around large amounts of cash all the time because most of them do not use banks.

Answer 6

If something isn't done to stop illegals getting in, or to put them off wanting to come in, more and more will just keep coming.

Answer 7

Definitely. I am sure the country where those illegals came from strictly enforce their immigration laws, so why can't our government do the same?

Answer 8

I would be glad to help send them back, just imagine how fresh the air would smell, how much safer streets would be and we wouldn't have to listen to" English or Spanish. They can send the Cubans back too, I miss the old Florida

Answer 9

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have no problem with people moving here LEGALLY, but do it the right way! Get all the ILLEGALS outta here. Lets send them all to Canada!

Answer 10

Yes.

Answer 11

Yes - they are ILLEGAL.

Why is breaking the law acceptable to some people?

Oh - the democrats need the votes...