ILLEGALS COST CALIFORNIA BILLIONS – HOW
“CHEAP” IS THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION.
ADD TO THIS THAT NEARLY HALF OF
ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!
BY JERRY SEPER
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published December 7, 2004
(NOTE THESE FIGURE ARE FROM 2004. SINCE THEN
THERE’S BEEN ANOTHER 10 MILLION ILLEGALS CLIMB OVER THE BORDERS. THE PEW
REPORTS THAT APPROXIMATELY 40 MILLION !MORE! MEXICANS ARE PLANNING TO JOIN THEM
FOR THE AMERICAN GRAVY TRAIN)
Illegal immigration costs the taxpayers of
California -- which has the highest number of illegal aliens nationwide --
$10.5 billion a year for education, health care and incarceration, according to
a study released yesterday. A key finding of the report by the Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR) said the state's already struggling
kindergarten-through-12th-grade education system spends $7.7 billion a year on
children of illegal aliens, who constitute 15 percent of the student body. The
report also said the incarceration of convicted illegal aliens in state prisons
and jails and uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to illegal
aliens each amounted to about $1.4 billion annually. The incarceration costs
did not include judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes
committed by illegal aliens that led to their incarceration. "California's
addiction to 'cheap' illegal-alien labor is bankrupting the state and posing
enormous burdens on the state's shrinking middle-class tax base," said
FAIR President Dan Stein. "Most Californians, who have seen their taxes
increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass
illegal immigration is having on their communities, but even they may be
shocked when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has
become," he said. California is estimated to be home to nearly 3 million
illegal aliens. Mr. Stein noted that state and local taxes paid by the
unauthorized immigrant population go toward offsetting these costs, but do not
match expenses. The total of such payments was estimated in the report to be
about $1.6 billion per year. He also said the total cost of illegal immigration
to the state's taxpayers would be considerably higher if other cost areas, such
as special English instruction, school meal programs or welfare benefits for
American workers displaced by illegal-alien workers were added into the
equation. Gerardo Gonzalez, director of the National Latino Research Center at
California State at San Marcos, which compiles data on Hispanics, was critical
of FAIR's report yesterday. He said FAIR's estimates did not measure some of
the contributions that illegal aliens make to the state's economy. "Beyond
taxes, these workers' production and spending contribute to California's economy,
especially the agricultural sector," he said, adding that both legal and
illegal aliens are the "backbone" of the state's $28 billion-a-year
agricultural industry. In August, a similar study by the Center for Immigration
Studies in Washington, said U.S. households headed by illegal aliens used $26.3
billion in government services during 2002, but paid $16 billion in taxes, an
annual cost to taxpayers of $10 billion. The FAIR report focused on three
specific program areas because those were the costs examined by researchers
from the Urban Institute in 1994, Mr. Stein said. Looking at the costs of
education, health care and incarceration for illegal aliens in 1994, the Urban
Institute estimated that California was subsidizing illegal immigrants at about
$1.1 billion a year. Mr. Stein said an enormous rise in the costs of illegal
immigrants in 10 years is because of the rapid growth of the illegal
population. He said it is reasonable to expect those costs to continue to soar
if action is not taken to turn the tide. "1994 was the same year that
California voters rebelled and overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187, which
sought to limit liability for mass illegal immigration," he said.
"Since then, state and local governments have blatantly ignored the wishes
of the voters and continued to shell out publicly financed benefits on illegal
aliens. "Predictably, the costs of illegal immigration have grown
geometrically, while the state has spiraled into a fiscal crisis that has
brought it near bankruptcy," he said. Mr. Stein said that the state must
adopt measures to systematically collect information on illegal-alien use of
taxpayer-funded services and on where they are employed, and that policies need
to be pursued to hold employers financially accountable.
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