How Many Illegal Aliens Are Know To Be In America?

Question

Can anyone break it down for me? How much do they cost the country for a full year ?

Answer 1

20,574,973 total illeagals

lots more at the wbsite.

Answer 2

It is estimated that 12 miliion + are in the USA and rising on a daily basis. And that is just illegals from Mexico. If this estimation is accurate and they know how many are here, why is there no effective solution to keeping it from becoming worse?
I am not against anyone who wants to come here from somewhere else, but do it legally. It cheapens the efforts of those who work hard, and abide by the laws to come here legally.

Answer 3

During Reagan years, they estimated it to be 2 milions ,but turned out to be 12. Now they think it is 12 to 20 milions, but some think it will turn out to be close to 40 milions. Since the fall of communism, so many eastern europeans came to America & remaind illegaly & blended in cuz of their skin colour, but they make a huge nr. of illegals too & latest estimate is 8 milions of them.

Answer 4

it is hard to decipher..my calculations are somewhat misunderstated in terms of being accurate..IMHO, there are millions of illegal aliens, filtering into the usa everyday..the statistics are mind-boggling to even comprehend..thats how astounding the figures are..too many to keep track of, too many to tally up in a census survey..

Answer 5

That's easy. Just take the entire population of the country and subtract the aboriginals.

In other words, roughly 300 million.

Answer 6

I am sure it costs far less than keeping Americans who don't weant to work on welfare

Answer 7

Too many.

Answer 8

Depending on the source, the numbers range widely - from about 7 million up to 20 million or more - - which is too many in my mind. I know they want a better life, but it's hard on the American tax payer and our economy. It's very stressful.

Here is some information:

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) estimates that in January of 2000 there were 7 million illegal aliens living in the United States, a number that is growing by half a million a year. Thus, the illegal-alien population in 2003 stands at at least 8 million. Included in this estimate are approximately 78,000 illegal aliens from countries who are of special concern in the war on terror. It is important to note that the 500,000 annual increase is the net growth in the illegal-alien population (new illegal immigration minus deaths, legalizations, and out-migration). In 1999 for example, the INS estimates that 968,000 new illegal aliens settled in the U.S. This number was offset by 210,000 illegal aliens who either died or returned home on their own, 63,000 who were removed by the INS, and 183,000 illegal aliens who were given green cards as part of the normal "legal" immigration process. One of the most important findings of the INS report is the intimate link between legal and illegal immigration. The INS estimates that it gave out 1.5 million green cards to illegal aliens in the 1990s. This was not due to amnesty legislation, but rather reflects how the legal immigration process embraces illegal immigration and encourages it through legal exemptions. According to the INS, only 412,000 illegal aliens were removed during the decade.

The Census Bureau has also developed estimates of its own. Their estimate at the time of the 2000 Census suggests that the illegal immigration population was about 8 million. Using this number, it can be concluded that the illegal-alien population grew by almost half a million a year in the 1990s. This conclusion is derived from a draft report given to the House immigration subcommittee by the INS that estimated the illegal population was 3.5 million in 1990. For the illegal population to have reached 8 million by 2000, the net increase had to be 400,000 to 500,000 per year during the 1990s.

The two "magnets" which attract illegal aliens are jobs and family connections. The typical Mexican worker earns one-tenth his American counterpart, and numerous American businesses are willing to hire cheap, compliant labor from abroad; such businesses are seldom punished because our country lacks a viable system to verify new hires' work eligibility. In addition, communities of recently arrived legal immigrants help create immigration networks used by illegal aliens and serve as incubators for illegal immigration, providing jobs, housing, and entree to America for illegal-alien relatives and fellow countrymen.

The standard response to illegal immigration has been increased border enforcement. And, in fact, such tightening of the border was long overdue. But there has been almost no attention paid to enforcement at worksites within the United States. Nor has there been any recognition that the networks created by high levels of legal immigration contribute to mass illegal immigration.



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Resource: Hausarbeiten.de

Taxes

The U.S. government depends on the taxpayers’ money to finance its programs like welfare, Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps as well as law enforcement. An estimated 13 percent of this funding is used to support illegal immigrants. Dozens of hospitals along the border went bankrupt because of free emergency room for illegal aliens. They cost the United States over $24 billion year in taxpayers’ money. Alone half a billion dollars per year are required to incarcerate illegal immigrants and the Center of Immigration Studies in Washington says, that immigrants are 75 percent more likely to use food stamps, medical benefits and housing assistance than natives, producing at a cost of $68 billion per year.23 According to a report of the National Academy of Sciences, the net fiscal drain on American taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a year per native household. It is obvious that there is a large monetary burden for the taxpayer created by illegal immigration.

Furthermore, $60 billion are earned by illegal Mexican immigrants each year. Money sent home by illegal immigrants working in the U.S is one of Mexico’s largest revenue streams, after exports and oil sales. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, $10 billion are annually sent back to Mexico. Experts say, that this money helps to reduce the country’s debts and to bolster the peso. This figure equals to the amount of money Mexico earns with tourism each year. That is a massive transfer of wealth from America, especially from the poor working class to Mexico.

As it is the case in all Western countries, each individual must be able to pay a certain amount of taxes to cover his use of public services. Families with income below the poverty line pay very little taxes. In addition to these very low tax contributions, the poor are the main beneficiaries of welfare programs such as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Supplemental Security Income, Food Stamps and subsidized housing. So if immigration further increases the size of the poor population, it is likely that there will be a negative effects on the public system.

Education

It is also evident that immigrants and their children cause higher educational costs without being able to pay for the them. In Colorado for example, an annual cost of $50 million goes towards educating immigrant children from Mexico and $141 million towards educating illegal aliens. This amount would be enough to buy books, computers and more for every K-12 student in the state. In addition, some Spanish speaking communities along the border demand Spanish speaking schools, causing even higher costs for the state.

Almost two thirds of the adult Mexican immigrants have not finished high school and Mexicans accounts for about a third of all high school dropouts in the labor force, which is two and a half times that of natives.

Drug Trafficking

It also appears that illegal immigration is closely linked to the drug trafficking problem. Hundreds of illegal immigrants carrying drugs are weekly attempting to cross the border, supported with vehicles, fraudulent identification papers and information about thebest points of entry by Mexican drug lords. In some cases, both U.S. and Mexican Custom’s officials are corrupted to look the other way to ensure an easy crossing of the border.

80 percent of cocaine and 50 percent of heroin reaching America is smuggled across the border by Mexicans, most of them illegal immigrants. Drug cartels spend half a billion dollars per year bribing Mexico’s corrupt military and police officials, which also poses a serious threat to U.S. Border Patrol agents.



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Miscellaneous


13 Americans are killed each day by uninsured, drunk driving illegals. - -Source: Congressman Steve King, Iowa, 5th District.

Pringles cans are now in half English, half Spanish.

The impact of illegal immigration is equivalent to a Hurricane Katrina every year – spread over 50 states and all social and economic sectors – Over $100 Billion per Year.

The Mexican government predicts nearly $25 billion will be sent home this year. Only 93 of Mexico's 2,350 municipalities do not receive money from migrants working in the United States.

Huggies wipes are half in English, half in Spanish.

Nearly one in five babies in Arizona is born to a mother living in the country illegally, according to a study of 2002 birth records and other government data by the Center for Immigration Studies (only California has a higher share of babies born to undocumented parents).

Cascade dishwashing soap is half n English, half Spanish.

ICE reported more than 5,000 arrests and removals of illegal immigrants in the state of New Jersey in their fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2005.

The Girl Scouts of America have several Spanish-only commercials on English television for children.

In 2002, there were 383,388 babies born in the United States to undocumented mothers, or about one in 10 births.

Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls are half English, half Spanish.

At least 400,000 undocumented immigrants live in Illinois, the majority from Mexico, according to government estimates.

Life Touch School Portraits make their brochures in half English, half Spanish.

The 33 million Hispanics are now the largest minority in the United States, including 21.7 million Mexicans as shown in the chart below.
These statistics are from the National Council of La Raza
"La Raza" (NCLR) is a large group of American businesses that have come together to help promote "Hispanic awareness" and stand up for illegal immigrants. They give advice such as "What to Do If Your Are Arrested or Detained by Immigration" (Immigration Debate section). You would be amazed at the companies that make up their sponsors, and how much they have contributed to the "well-being" of illegals. Click here to view a list of companies and contributions.


As of July 2004, the Hispanic population in the U.S. was 41.3 million, or 14% of the total population; it is projected that Latinos will account for more than one in four Americans by 2050.

50% of the Hispanic population is under age 25.

85% of Hispanics under 18 were born in the United States.

Latino’s buying power is more than $736 billion.

By 2010, it is expected that Hispanics will have more than $1 trillion in disposable income.

The U.S. Latino population remits billions of dollars to Latin America: $45.8 billion in 2004.