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Professor Peabody · #50 (**permalink**) 02-22-2009, 09:17 PM

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The annual net cost of illegal immigrants (after subtracting their tax payments) to the American taxpayer is likely to be more than $45 billion. Our recent study of the net fiscal “Costs of illegal immigration to Californians” estimated the partial costs at $10.5 billion in that state alone.

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServe...suecenters7443

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Fewer Latino Immigrants Sending Money Home

By JULIA PRESTON
Published: May 1, 2008

In a sign that the economic downturn is hitting hard among Latino immigrants, more than three million of them stopped sending money to families in their home countries during the last two years, the Inter-American Development Bank said on Wednesday.

For Latin America as a whole, the amount of the money transfers, which are known as remittances, remained virtually flat over the last two years, the development bank reported. It estimated total remittances to the region at $45.9 billion in 2008, an increase of $500 million over 2006.

That contrasts with the period from 2001 to 2006, when the amount of remittances to the region tripled, to $45 billion from $15 billion, according to figures from the development bank, a multilateral organization based in Washington that finances development projects in Latin America. Total remittances did not drop more sharply in the last two years because those immigrants who continued to send money sent larger amounts more frequently, the bank’s survey found.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/us/01immigration.html

That's a $90 Billion dollar net loss to our economy after the ones paying taxes pay. No benefit to the country, except to the employers using them like slave labor, can out weigh the costs.