The Cost of Illegal Immigration

If you are a tax-paying US citizen, here are a few facts that you should consider very carefully before voting for any senator or congressman, regardless of party, who supports any form of amnesty for illegal immigrants.

$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
(Source: http://tinyurl.com/zob77)

$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
(Source: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html)

$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
(Source: 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 cannot speak a word of English!
(Source: 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.
(Source: transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html )

$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
(Source: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html )

30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
(Source: 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.
(Source: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html)

$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed Am erican wages are caused by the illegal aliens. (Source: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html )

The illegal aliens in the Un ited States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
(Source: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html )

During 2005 there were 4-10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern border along with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the US from the Southern border. (Source: Homeland Security Report)

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 $41-46 billion annually over a five year period." (Source: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf )

In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. (Source: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm)

"The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States."
(Source: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml)

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS YEAR!

I don't know about you but I would certainly prefer to put these dollars toward supporting our brave men and women in uniform and our fight against Islamofascists. It's time to cut the umbilical cord between agribusiness and Mexico. Mr. Lettuce Grower, if you can't pay minimum wage to US workers, you need to close your doors and find another business to run. I'm tired of financing your cheap labor.

[Thanks for sharing this well-documented list, Tammy! It's truly an eye-opener!]