What are the main effects of illegal immigration that the United States faces?

David L

Lower wages for everyone, except those folks already earning top pay.
Higher taxes to pay for Gov. provided Illegal Immigrant services.

1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County (L. A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A. County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L. A. County). (All 10 from the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.
The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET LOSS (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]. The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE.
29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

wayo kapi

1. taking jobs Americans need desperately now
2. ruining our educational system
3. spreading disease from no inoculations
4. raising crime rates
5. lowering property values
6. human and drug smuggling
7. rise in gangs
8. committing I.D. fraud and theft

These are just a few of the effects illegals have on our country.

GreasyTony

Positive Effects:

1) Illegal Immigrants pay BILLIONS in taxes, and those taxes help us with many things like Social Security, Medicare, Retirement Checks and even road maintenance.

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2008/04/10/20080410biz-TaxingImmigrants-10.html
Illegal Immigrants Pay Billions in taxes.

2) Both US Workers and the economy benefit from illegal immigrants.

http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2007/04/10/Opinions/Dollars.And.Sense.Economy.Native.Workers.Benefit.From.Immigrant.Work-2831841.shtml
Dollars and sense: Economy, native workers benefit from immigrant work

3) Illegal Hispanics are part of the Hispanic Purchasing Power that's expected to reach $1TRILLION by 2011.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/01/hispanics.economy/index.html?eref=ib_topstories
Hispanic purchasing power is expected to reach more than $1 trillion by 2011 (CNN)

4) They still do the jobs that Americans refuse to do even in this recession.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070204/news_lz1e4navarret.html
Those jobs Americans won't do

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