Hey what do illegal aliens costs America each year???

jediprice70

Do you need a dollar figure?

Billions... the costs run huge because they cost money in so many different areas, and it runs very deep, to many different levels.

Just a few examples:

The money spent educating children of illegal aliens in California alone is estimated to be 2.2 billions dollars a year. If spent otherwise, you could cap every classroom at 20 students, and have 300 million left over. You could pay the salaries of almost 42,000 of California's teachers instead.

Emergency healthcare in southern states to illegal aliens is estimated to cost hospitals 200 million for which they do not receive any compensation.

Undocumented aliens in California's prison system, where they have the highest number of these type of inmates, is costing California alone an estimated 500 million dollars.

'nuff said?

TROUBLE

illegals aliens use more government benefits and state sponsored heath care programs then Americans use. I dont blame anyone for wanting a better life, heck who doesnt? but try changing your own country before leaving it.

Beej

Federal, state and local governments spend billions of dollars each year educating, caring for and incarcerating illegal immigrants. Until the federal government fortifies the border, taxpayers will have to continue to foot the bill for a variety of social services offered to illegals.

Education: Taxpayers are being forced to pay for the schooling of the children of illegal immigrants.

Illegal immigrants who take low-paying jobs don't pay enough in taxes, if they pay at all, to reimburse taxpayers the $5,000-plus annually it takes to educate each of their children.

The total K-12 school expenditure for illegal immigrants costs the states $7.4 billion annually-- enough to buy a computer for every junior high student nationwide.

In California, the $2.2 billion spent on the education of the children of illegal immigrants for one year could:
Pay the salaries of 41, 764 teachers, or 14 percent of California's teachers.
Pay for California's class sizes to remain capped at 20 students for a year, with $300 million to spare.
Buy books, computers, and other instructional equipment for 346, 689 classrooms, 79 percent of all classrooms in California.
Fully fund California 's free lunch program for almost two years.

Emergency Health Care: Taxpayers are forced to provide emergency health care for illegal aliens and their children who do not have insurance.

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay. In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

Hospitals in California rank first in the country in expenditures for providing health care to illegal immigrants.

The Center for Medicaid Services at the Dept. of Health and Human Services reported that for FY 2001, the health care costs for illegal immigrants in California were over $648 million. California paid 47 percent of these costs, or $304,785,368, for this mandate.

Population Crisis: In California, we are in the midst of a population crisis that is already affecting every aspect of life in our state and will continue to get worse.

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

More than one third of the 3.5 million total increase in illegal immigration since 1990 occurred in California and Texas.

California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

Crime: Fifteen percent of California 's prison inmates are undocumented aliens, costing the state more than $500 million annually.

Welfare and Government Assistance: Fraudulent Social Security cards, driver's licenses and birth certificates are being bought by thousands of illegal immigrants each year. These false documents are used by individuals to get millions of dollars worth of welfare, public housing and Social Security benefits.

panicorblink

too much

Jedi Master Titus Pullo (USA)

Medicaid = taxes
medical treatment for the uninsured = taxes
food assistance programs = taxes
the federal prison and court systems = taxes
federal aid to schools = taxes

Chris R

to much

DoItRite

They contribute to the economy by making the cost of goods lower. They cost the economy by driving wages lower. Anyone who puts a dollar value on this is just guessing. The amount would be meaningless anyway.

Joel W

IT is an important question, and no one can answer it. The Mexican Mafia had that I.D. Program in place by 1998 and there are so many of those in this country, we don't have any idea how many are here.

The Federal Government says 11 million illegal aliens in this country. How many illegal aliens with fake I.D.'s are in this country? How about another twenty million?

So NOW how much do they cost. A bundle. You can use the search engine and ask Yahoo... illegal aliens cost ... and I think you get over four million hits.

Tony K

nothing, people just believe that they are posing a threat by working jobs that the average american wouldnt do, also when is the last time that an illegal alien stole a job from you or someone you know?............im pretty sure you cant think of a single solitary time or instance

globar

Do you want to donate then ?
Who knows what it costs ....less than the war and more than the penal system...

0000

Well they have OUTRAGIOUS costs themselves like for schooling and simply activities that we Americans take for granted so actually regardless of jobs..illegal aliens actually BENEFIT USA

Homer

to much

Jon B

Jobs?

Razor Jim

There is a net loss of over 70 billion dollars. This was for the last year reported by the GAO in 2005. This takes into consideration the cost of social services and education. 15% of the students enrolled in California are illegals. It costs $1183 for each state taxpayer to support them.

SASSY_101

how much do they help america each year? they do the jobs no one else does. most of the time they just come here to help their families cos there are no honest jobs in mexico. If you ask me we should have gone their rather than iraq were they had invisable nuclear bombs... then maybe mexicans would not have to jump over to our country

bearbait7351

about 42 thousand eight hundred and eight dollars per second 60 seconds per minute 60 minutes per hour 24 hours per day 365 days per year. total approx imately one thousand three hundred fifty billion per year in direct costs. that doesn't count the depression of the standard of living either. kinda makes bush"s war on terror seem cheap doesnt it

poopsie

they cost billion's, and take away alot of job's, but then I think the big corporations, devise businesse's, like all the fast food industry, and new type regular restaurant's, motel's, casinos etc. to keep them here to obtain vote's, The farmer's are loosing farm workers, to casino's, because they pay benefit's, and they seem to be putting them everywhere!!!!!!!, alot of it is to obtain vote's

jlconsultants

You will find a variety of answers to this question. The person who seems to keep on the figures with the most vengeance is Lou Dobbs. I would google him. Anderson Cooper is another good source of news info, although he does not have the same bone to pick with illegal immigration that Lou Dobbs does, so he may not have a vast amount of info available in web archives.

As with all info, always make sure that the statistical figures (the numbers) you receive are backed up by some sort of independent census figure or double-blind scientific study (in which even the researchers do not know the control group), so that the results are honest. Generally, by making sure your information comes from several reputable sources that conduct independent studies (and have no vested interest in the outcome), you can know that the results are pretty much accurate and not just somebody's opinion.

Hope this helps :)

Take care,
jlconsultants
www.joannaleigh.com

ned s

Way to much!!!!! They are in our schools where ESL teachers cost money. They get emergency room health care with no ability to pay increasing what we pay at the hospital. They take jobs away from our teenagers who will never learn what the real world is about. They pay no taxes and they are voting in some areas so again A LOT!!!!!!!

kejjer

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm

State's "cheap labor" costs average household $1,183 a year

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/12/17/daily19.html?ana=from_rss

four states that border Mexico spent more than $108 million on law enforcement activities involving undocumented immigrants. San Diego County in California spent nearly half of that, with more than $50 million going into law enforcement activities involving undocumented immigrants.
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Law enforcement--social programs, healthcare cost.

Billions and billions of dollars alone---not counting the amount of money they take out of the local economy and send home to mexico or another countries--an estimated 10 Billion more--Mexico's third largest income behind OIL and TOURISM.

Î›irÂ§trikÄ™ XÂ³

lol I'd say this economy is based on alien employees...

Brimstone Halo

Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans are right now sharing their identities with immigrants and don't know it. It is the dirty little secret of the immigration issue: By not dealing directly with the undocumented worker situation, the U.S government is actually encouraging identity theft. In fact, one can argue that the origins of the identity theft epidemic can be traced to the immigration issue.

The scope of this problem is vast. Every year, nearly 9 million people pay their taxes using the wrong Social Security number. The name used on W-2 tax forms used by employers doesn't match the name on file with the Social Security Administration. There can be many reasons why -- a data entry typo by a human resources department, a woman changes her name after marriage and forgets to report it, or a man uses someone else's SSN to get a job.

Social Security calls this a "no-match" situation. When this happens, the Social Security Administration collects the money, but the wage credits go into limbo. They don't end up on anyone's annual Social Security statement, they end up in something called the Earnings Suspense File. Since 1984, when the Social Security card employment verification requirement kicked in, nearly $500 billion in wages has ended up in that file.

Who are all these people paying their taxes using the wrong SSN? Neither Social Security nor the IRS has ever studied this issue in great detail. But there are clear indications that many -- if not most -- of the 9 million mismatches are immigrants using the wrong SSN. One study by Social Security indicates no-match payments come most frequently from agricultural and restaurant industries, for example.

Not every mismatched SSN belongs to a real living person, and in fact, it appears many are chosen at random. Some belong to the deceased; others are entirely fictitious. One study showed thousands of entries using obvious fakes, such as 123-45-6789 or 999-99-9999.

Many victims are very real
But many victims are very real. Recently, officials in Utah matched a database of children receiving welfare benefits with a database of workers paying state taxes and found 1,800 child victims. Itâ€™s impossible to know how many of the impostors were undocumented workers, but Utah Assistant Attorney General Rich Hamp says that behind most cases the agency has prosecuted so far, heâ€™s found an immigrant using someone elseâ€™s papers.

Victims often don't have any idea theyâ€™re sharing their identity with an immigrant, because there's no way to find out. Social Security won't tell you if someone else is using your SSN. The extra earnings don't end up on your annual Social Security statement, because they are designated to the Earnings Suspense File instead. Ditto for the Internal Revenue Service. The misuse isn't revealed in personal credit reports, either. If somebody uses your number to get a credit card or car loan, the nation's credit bureaus create a new credit file instead of alerting you to the misuse.

Victims only find out when something goes wrong -- when there are unpaid taxes or unpaid bills, debt collectors often track down the original SSN holder.

But there are sometimes hints along the way.

SSN-only ID theft victim Margaret Harrison was once denied unemployment because records showed she had a job. Harrison was in West Virginia -- her Social Security number was working on a farm in Washington state. She couldn't prove her problem until recently, however, when she received a debit card with her impostor's picture on it.

The immigration issue is an incredibly complex mine field of competing emotional issues. There are sloganeering and extremism on both sides. There will be no kicking out every undocumented worker; and there will be no letting everyone in right away. People who insist on either are naive, foolish or both. There will be hard decisions and heartbreaks. This column does not suggest there is a simple answer.

And it also does not blame the immigrants, who are simply following the real-life rules theyâ€™ve been given. Want a job? Want to feed your family, want a better life for your kids? Just get a nine-digit number. The message has been clear from our government and our corporations for 20 years -- no one cares whose nine-digit number you use.

Plenty of blame to go around
The blame lies on us all for not dealing with the situation directly, and instead encouraging under-the-table activity. There are millions of victims on all sides -- including the innocent bystanders who must share their Social Security numbers.

This is what happens when an extra-legal system is in place. Today, there are no rules, which clearly encourages this sharing of Social Security numbers. It encourages the cottage industry that is document forgery. And ultimately, it encourages identity theft.

While consumers cannot learn the secret life of their Social Security numbers, several groups know all about it. The nationâ€™s credit bureaus, for example, can sort their data by number instead of name.

Lenders routinely buy this information when assessing a consumer's credit risk. Every time MSNBC.com covers this issue, workers at car dealers and banks write in to say theyâ€™ve seen countless examples of consumers who apply for accounts and have multiple names connected to their Social Security numbers. Privacy rules prevent them from warning the consumers.

And of course, any agency that collects taxes, such as Social Security or the IRS, has this information.

It would certainly be possible for any of these groups to inform those who are sharing SSNs, but a serious attempt has never been made. Why? I suspect that doing so would personalize the immigration debate and might very well lead to a true flash point for the issue.

Three years ago, Social Security did the next-best thing, sending letters to some employers with large lists of people paying taxes using the wrong SSN. As workers scattered, seeing the letters as tantamount to a deportation notice, immigration rights groups protested. The letters were immediately withdrawn. And here we sit.

One thing activists on many sides of this issue seem to agree on â€“- itâ€™s time to bring undocumented workers out of the shadows. That would be wise, as it would also bring countless identity theft victims out of the shadows.

But until that happens, the IRS, the SSA and the nationâ€™s credit bureaus need to develop a system that allows the rightful holder of a Social Security number to know if it has a secret life.

salmancr7

well, I think they don't even cost something...because they come to the US to work.......not because they wanna bother someone and I don't think they even like the US ....probably nothing they just come to work, they make our lifes easier sometimes

S P

Money, jobs, schools, hospitals, civil services, the English language, international respect, and national identity.

BeArPaW_4709

How much do illegal aliens contribute to the US economy???

tylerxx8

not as much as they do in England i'll tell you

- Lexi

i think illegal aliens is a touch harsh.

TheEmporer'sNewClothes

I've heard every man, woman and child who is a legal American citizen, pays $11,000 for the illegal immigrants in terms of what the cost is in this country today. That is the cost per legal citizen.
Got no clue how this figure was arrived at except to say that it was arrived at through government statistics.

Also, I've hear that every illegal that is DEPORTED costs America $89,000 each. No source and no idea if these figures cross over in their determinations.

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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.

Jacobb

yea are jobs go back to your own country PLEASE

Darby

It's a lot, but there's nothing we can do about it because our politicians won't listen when we say enough is enough. I don't wish them any harm, but it doesn't seem right that they get the benefits offered by this country, but send their money "home." Sure, they buy groceries and goods, granted. And we contribute to the problem by hiring them and paying them under the table and don't collect FICA, Medicare, and Federal and State taxes from their wages. Funds that come from these taxes pay for schools, the health department, etc. Our health insurance no doubt is picking up the hospital bills that are left unpaid. We can belly ache as much as we want, but nobody listens, and we like all the cheap work we can get out of them.

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