About the Author of this study Steven A. Camarota is Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. He holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the University of Virginia. Dr. Camarota often testifies before Congress and has published widely on the political and economic effects of immigration on the United States. His articles on the impact of immigration have appeared in both academic publications and the popular press including Social Science Quarterly, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Campaigns and Elections, and The Public Interest. His most recent work published by the Center for Immigration Studies includes: Back Where We Started: An Examination of Trends in Immigrant Welfare Use Since Welfare Reform; The Open Door: How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001; Where Immigrants Live: An Examination of State Residency of the Foreign-Born; Immigration in a Time of Recession: An Examination of Trends Since 2000. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8 $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they can't speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML <http://transcripts/..cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>; $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC RI PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of non-illegal immigrants. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn..com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML <http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML>; During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the US from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security The National policy Institute estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period. Verify http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute..org/PDF/deportation.PDF In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin. Verify http://www/..rense.com/general75/niht.htm <http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm>; So it's not military spending that's eating up most of our money. It seems CNN News deleted this info from their site, some of their links don't work. They don't want people to get the facts.
So? why does the US negotiate trade treaties that will put millions of these people out of work and basically leave them with only three choices, starve to death, join a drug gang, or go to the US for work? Why do the republicans not let legislation to crack down on illegal alien employers pass? Is it because they feel guilty about the free trade agreements? I don't think so. If there was no jobs in the US these people would probably go home and foment violent socialist revolutions as their choices become limited to starving to death on the streets or picking up a gun and overthrowing the government that created their misery. I am sure the republicans would be unhappy about that.
200 Billion in "suppressed american wages" does not equate to any government spending. Much of the other "supposed" spending is either fiction, disingenuous or lacks understanding of how economies work. Granted .. lets say there is 100 Billion in extra spending .. a number that is likely way too high. This will not solve a 1.6 Trillion dollar deficit. The defense budget increased from 300 Billion to 700 Billion 2000-2008 From 2008 to now revenues have decreased from 2.7 Trillion to 2.15 Trillion. 400 Billion + 5.5 Billion = a large portion of the deficit. Stimulus spending, homeland security, and chasing down and jailing pot smokers and growers accounts for another good portion. add in the Bush tax cuts and there is the difference between balanced budgets under Clinton and the insanity of Bush.
And yet... almost all legitimate research into the subject shows the impact of illegal immigrants to trivial. The group most impacted by them are high school drop outs and that's only because they're competing for the same jobs. This attempts to paint a picture that just isn't true and ignores the fact that many work for decades in this country paying sales taxes and social security and will never reap the benefits of it. This also ignores the gains in production, illegal immigrants account for roughly 4% of the working population, remove that number and the decline we're in would be much worse. http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/01/news/economy/immigration_economy/index.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19462758/ns/us_news-gut_check/t/your-questions-experts-answers/ The myth of immigrants having a negative impact on the economy is unsubstantiated garbage.
They take jobs from from the 75% of americans who do not have a university degree, driving down wages and causing poorer working conditions by being willing to work for survival wages and put up with mistreatment. They typically have low incomes, so do not pay nearly enough taxes into the system to cover their own costs, let alone sending their many children to public schools. What about all those CHILDREN the illegals have been having? They do not show up in these sort of statistics. By ignoring all the illegal offspring, one can easily fail to see the big picture: they are taking over the USA. Already in many southwestern states they outnumber whites. How much do these children cost society?
