A new report is out that shows the costs imposed on Texas taxpayers by illegal aliens. The report was released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform
(FAIR). The current estimates show there are 1.5 million illegal aliens
in Texas. The costs when broken down comes to a total of $725 a year
per taxpaying household to cover the costs of education, health care
and incarceration of illegal aliens throughout the state.
The more than 4.7 billion in costs incurred by Texas taxpayers annually result from outlays in the following areas:
Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant
population in Texas and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Texans
spend more than $4 billion annually on education for illegal immigrant
children and for their U.S.-born siblings. About 11.9 percent of the
K-12 public school students in Texas are children of illegal aliens.
Health Care. Taxpayer-funded medical outlays for health care
provided to the state’s illegal alien population amount to about $520
million a year.
Incarceration. The uncompensated cost of incarcerating illegal
aliens in Texas’s state and county prisons amounts to about $150
million a year (not including local jail detention costs or related law
enforcement and judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the
crimes that led to their incarceration).
The fiscal costs of illegal immigration do not end with these
three major cost areas. The total costs of illegal immigration to the
state’s taxpayers would be considerably higher if other cost areas such
as special English instruction, welfare programs used by the U.S.-born
children of illegal aliens, or welfare benefits for American workers
displaced by illegal alien workers were also calculated.
I am sure we are all aware of the hidden costs of illegal immigration.
How many tax paying citizens have died ( remember the golden hour,
especially for heart attack and stroke) in the emergency room of a
hospital that is flooded with illegals seeking minor treatments. The
the hospital has to absorb the cost of treating those illegals knowing
they will never get paid for their services, and yes, some of that cost
is passed down to those able to pay. Eventually though, the hospital
may go out of business, as the business model the law forces upon them
is not sustainable. We are all aware of the crime, drugs and
corruption that are exported from Mexico with the illegal immigrant.
The solution, close our borders and enforce our laws.
For a comprehensive (and long) read about facts, figures, and statistics on illegal immigration check out http://www.usillegalaliens.com/
This is a very old clip below, but Mr. Thompson speaks very well to the issues that we face today.
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Cost of Illegal Immigration
