On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:03:30 -0500, mumbled:

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:49:40 GMT, sonic okies wrote:

BULL****!

http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in
costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in
taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or
$2,700 per illegal household.


Among the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the
uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food
stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal
prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools
($1.4 billion).


That is $16 billion more than the americans who are on these programs
pay.

Hey ASSHOLE - illegal immigration costs ALL Americans!

http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/24...-COUNTIES.html

The Front Line—Twenty-Four U.S. Counties on
the Border
In a study conducted for the United States/Mexico Border Counties
Coalition (USMBCC), researchers from the University of Texas at El
Paso, New Mexico State University, and San Diego State University
found that the twenty-four border counties along the U.S.–Mexico
border spent about $108.2 million providing law enforcement, criminal
justice, and emergency health-care services to illegal aliens
apprehended in fiscal year 1999 (Illegal Immigrants in U.S./Mexico
Border Counties, Washington, DC: U.S./Mexico Border Counties
Coalition, February 2001).

Another study conducted by MGT of America for the USMBCC, Medical
Emergency: Costs of Uncompensated Care in Southwest Border Counties
(September 2002), analyzed the cost of providing emergency medical
care to illegal immigrants who crossed the border for health care
(including mothers ready to deliver babies) or who were injured in
attempted border crossings. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active
Labor Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 1395 dd) requires hospitals and emergency
personnel to screen, treat, and stabilize anyone who seeks emergency
medical care regardless of income or immigration status.

This 2002 USMBCC report cited an American Hospital Association survey,
which found that the hospitals in the twenty-four border counties
incurred $832 million in uncompensated care in 2000. The report
attributed about $190 million of uncompensated emergency care to
undocumented immigrants. The USMBCC study also determined that if the
twenty-four border counties were combined into one state, by
comparison to the other forty-nine states it would have the lowest per
capita income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest percentage
of children living in poverty, and the highest percentage of residents
without health insurance.

In July 2004 the Associated Press reported in two separate stories
("Texas to Get $47.5 Million in Funds for Uninsured," July 22, 2004,
and "Arizona to Get Reimbursed for Illegal Immigrants' Hospital Care,"
July 23, 2004) that hospitals and other health-care facilities in
Arizona and Texas would receive compensation for the care they
provided to the uninsured, including illegal immigrants. Arizona
facilities were to receive $42 million and Texas providers $47.5
million annually over four years as part of a $1 billion, four-year
federal program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services. The program was designed to help hospitals and other
health-care providers across the United States recoup their estimated
$1.45 billion losses for medical care to uninsured patients, many of
whom are illegal immigrants. Of the $250 million to be disbursed for
each of the four years to hospitals across the country, Arizona and
Texas facilities would receive more than one-third (36%).

U.S. towns along the southwestern border also face the burden of
identifying and burying the bodies of illegal immigrants who died
while attempting to enter the United States. Between October 2003 and
September 2004, 314 people died crossing the U.S.–Mexico border ("Cost
of Illegal Immigration Seen in Graveyards," Associated Press,
September 24, 2004). The average burial cost for an unclaimed body was
reported to be $900 while the cost of investigating the death and
identifying the body could be as high as $2,500. Imperial County,
California, expected to pay $30,000 in 2004 for autopsies of bodies
found along the border.

Border issues divide communities and politicians. In a story for the
Philadelphia Inquirer ("'Neighborhood Watch' at the Nation's Borders,"
February 2, 2004), Dave Montgomery related: "Thousands of furious
Arizonans complain that undocumented workers consume millions of
dollars in public services and wrest jobs from U.S. citizens." Citizen
"watchdog groups" threatened to patrol the borders in an effort to
stem the flood of illegal immigrants crossing public as well as
private property, while human rights activists described the
self-appointed groups as "paramilitary vigilantes 'driven by hate."'

During the month of April 2005 an estimated 900 volunteers, working in
eight-hour shifts, conducted stationary patrols of a twenty-three-mile
stretch of border in Cochise County, Arizona. Although some volunteers
came armed, their mission was simply to alert Border Patrol agents of
border crossers. Organizers called the "Minute Man Project" a success.
They reported that calls to Border Patrol agents resulted in arrests
of 335 illegal immigrants and brought national attention to the
problem of border control ("Minuteman Project Draws to Close in
Arizona," Associated Press, April 30, 2005).

A 2004 study by the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
estimated that illegal immigration cost the state of Arizona $1.3
billion per year (The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Arizonans,
Washington, DC, June 2004). The study considered the cost of
education, health care, and incarceration for the illegal alien
population. It also credited the estimated $257 million per year in
taxes paid by illegal immigrants. FAIR published a similar study
focusing on California (The Costs of Illegal Immigration to
Californians, Washington, DC, November 2004). They concluded that the
illegal alien population in California cost the state's taxpayers
$10.5 billion. Taking into account the estimated $1.6 billion in taxes
paid illegal immigrants, the total cost was approximately $9 billion.
Another recent FAIR report analyzed the costs of illegal immigration
on the state of Texas (The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Texans,
Washington, DC, April 2005). The report estimated that the illegal
population in Texas cost the state $4.7 billion, or $725 per Texas
household headed by a native-born resident. The study asserted that $1
billion of that overall cost was offset by the taxes of these illegal
immigrants.