This study is one of the first to estimate the total impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Most previous studies have focused on the state and local level and have examined only costs or tax payments, but not both. Based on Census Bureau data, this study finds that, when all taxes paid (direct and indirect) and all costs are considered, illegal households created a net fiscal deficit at the federal level of more than $10 billion in 2002.

Among the findings:

*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).

*With nearly two-thirds of illegal aliens lacking a high school degree, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their legal status or heavy use of most social services.

*On average, the costs that illegal households impose on federal coffers are less than half that of other households, but their tax payments are only one-fourth that of other households.

14 GOOD REASONS TO DEPORT ILLEGAL ALIENS
(websites provided for verification)

Hope these 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are
read by the majority of Americans. Then they will have something to yell
at
their U.S. Congress members about. $11 BILLION to $22 BILLION is spent
on
welfare to illegal aliens each year. /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.
www.cis.org...

$2.5 BILLION dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
www.cis.org...

$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! transcripts.cnn.com...

$17 BILLION dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
transcripts.cnn.com...

$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
transcripts.cnn.com...

30% of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
transcripts.cnn.com... 04/01/ldt.01.html

$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
Social Services by the American taxpayers.
premium.cnn.com...

$200 BILLION dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by
the illegal aliens.
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transcripts.cnn.com...

The illegal aliens in the United 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 United States.
transcripts.cnn.com...

During the year 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that
crossed our Southern border, also as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from
Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine
and marijuana crossed into the U. S. from the Southern border. Homeland
Security Report: /t9sht

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 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org...

In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances bac k to
their
countries of origin. ttp://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm>
www.rense.com...

Originally posted by LostNemesis

What if we threw out all the illegal immigrants?

articles.moneycentral.msn.com< br />

Lettuce and strawberries would rot in the fields. Dirty dishes would pile up in restaurants. Thousands of farmers and builders would go bust. Predator aircraft drones would prowl the Mexican border. And chunks of Los Angeles and Houston would look like ghost towns.

The biggest losers would be middle-class families with two working parents, living in high-immigrant states such as California, Texas, Florida or New York. Why? They would pay more for food, housing, entertainment and child care as a shortage of low-skilled workers drove up some wages, and therefore, some prices.

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