I need some statistics on illegal immigration?

Question

Like how many are on welfare and how much money America looses and how many are actually doing jobs like crop picking. I also need the site or book you got it from! Thank you a bunch!

FYI I am also researching it but I thought I would get a wider range of results if I asked on Yahoo! Answers.

Answer 1

WASHINGTON (August 25, 2004) — A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies is one of the first to estimate the impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Based on Census Bureau data, the study estimates that households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they paid in taxes in 2002. These figures are only for the federal government; costs at the state and local level are also likely to be significant. The study also finds that if illegals were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow to nearly $29 billion.
Among the findings:
•Illegal alien households are estimated to use $2,700 a year more in services than they pay in taxes, creating a total fiscal burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in 2002.
•Among the largest federal costs: Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).
•If illegal aliens were legalized and began to pay taxes and use services like legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual fiscal deficit at the federal level would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total federal deficit of $29 billion.
•With nearly two-third of illegals lacking a high school diploma, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments — not their legal status or their unwillingness to work.
•Amnesty increases costs because illegals would still be largely unskilled, and thus their tax payments would continue to be very modest, but once legalized they would be able to access many more government services.
•The fact that legal immigrants with little schooling are a fiscal drain on federal coffers does not mean that legal immigrants overall are a drain. Many legal immigrants are highly skilled.
•Because many of the costs are due to their U.S.-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth, barring illegals themselves from federal programs will not significantly reduce costs.
•Although they create a net drain on the federal government, the average illegal household pays more than $4,200 a year in federal taxes, for a total of nearly $16 billion.
•However, they impose annual costs of more than $26.3 billion, or about $6,950 per illegal household.
•About 43 percent, or $7 billion, of the federal taxes illegals pay go to Social Security and Medicare.

Answer 2

You wont be able to find much information on illegal immigration except for apprehensions.

I've done research on the subject and interviewed professors at San Diego State University who specialize on the subject.

There are obvious problems in trying to gather statistics on people illegally in the country. The professors whom I spoke to also pointed out that there is little effort made to gather viable information.

Most of the studies they, the professors, conduct are one-on-one interviews and case studies. Because of this there is no real gauge on how much undocumented aliens negatively or positively affect the country . What they can address with interviews and case studies is the reasons for entering the country illegally and the type of activities such immigrants engage in.

If you have the time you can try contacting Norma Ojeda at San Diego State University. She's done work on the issue for many years on both sides of the border. You can probably find her contact information at the school website, www.sdsu.edu.

Good luck.

Answer 3

The FBI and InS have both done some stats on illegal immigration that should help. You could also check on CAPS web site (most over thier studies closely match INS and FBI. I also know that UCLA has a recent study that appears to be unbiased.

Answer 4

Without meaning to sound negative, any statistics will be unreliable simply by their very nature- how can any know how many people who have entered or remain anywhere illegally! Any employment will be illegal etc. so any statistics will be educated guesses at best!

Answer 5

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. THE GOV'T DOESN'T GIVE OUT THOSE NUMBERS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO KNOW. I AM SO TIRED OF SEEING ILLEGALS HERE. NO, I'M NOT RACIST, IT'S BECAUSE I AM TIRED OF BENDING BACKWARDS TO FIT THEIR NEEDS WHEN THEY ARE COMING TO OUR COUNTRY. IF I WENT TO GERMANY TO LIVE, I WOULD HAVE TO LEARN GERMAN. YET THEY CAN COME HERE AND NOT HAVE TO SPEAK ENGLISH!?!? THAT'S BULL S H I T! MY GRANDFATHER CAME HERE IN 1912 FROM HOLLAND, AND YOU BET YOUR A S S HE HAD TO LEARN ENGLISH. YOU ALSO WON'T FIND MUCH BECAUSE THEY ARE ILLEGAL, MEANING THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSE TO BE HERE SO THEY ARE NOT REPORTED FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DO BECAUSE IF THEY ARE FOUND THEY WILL GET DEPORTED AND THE COMPANY WILL GET A HEFTY FINE. THAT'S MY 2 CENTS, THANKS FOR THE POINTS.

Answer 6

There is no such thing as "illegal immigration." There are "Illegal alien criminals" who are here breaking the law - that's the criminal part and there are immigrants that are here LEGALLY and are working with the system.

Answer 7

"Researching" and "Yahoo Answers" don't belong in the same paragraph.

Answer 8

http://www.immigrationcounters.com/ http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49965

Answer 9

theyre all are on welfare

Answer 10

Do your own homework!

And people wonder why illegals are taking the jobs.