Here are some statistics from the Los Angeles Times
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40 percent of all workers are working for cash and not paying taxes.
75 percent of people on L.A.'s most-wanted list are illegal aliens.
In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide
(which total 1,200 to 1,500) are for illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds
of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
Over two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles are to illegal alien
Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by the taxpayers.
Nearly 25 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are
here illegally.
The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegals
from south of the border.
Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties in California are
illegal.
Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops but 29 percent are
on welfare.
It cost Los Angeles $276 million in welfare costs for 100,000 children
of illegal aliens.
Los Angeles County's emergency rooms are overburdened by the uninsured
and overwhelmed by illegal immigration. Sixty percent of the county's
uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens, and more than half are here
illegally. With about 2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles
County alone, patients in the County's overcrowded emergency rooms can
wait days for a hospital bed for necessary surgeries. In 2004, Los
Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured - roughly
$1,000 for every taxpayer - while illegal aliens receive medical
treatment for free.
In the rest of the country:
29 percent of inmates in the federal prisons are illegal aliens.
The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes minus services used) for the average
adult Mexican immigrant is a negative.
More Americans have died as a result of illegal immigration than from
the battle in Iraq. Illegal aliens in the United States are more than
fourteen times as lethal as a full scale armed conflict.
According to statistics compiled by US Congressman Steve King (R-5th
CD Iowa),
* 13 Americans are killed each day by uninsured drunk driving
illegals
* 12 U.S. citizens die a violent death at the hands of murderous
illegal aliens each day in crimes.
At the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were
incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities. COST: $6.8 Billion a
year.
Based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, illegals
are responsible for 309,050 accidents, 2,132 deaths, 139,400 injuries,
and a cost of $11.5 billion. Data suggest their involvement is much
higher, maybe 3-5 times higher. COST: $11.5 Billion a year.
There are an estimated 5.1 million ESL students in the USA. Since 90%
of the ESL students are children of illegal aliens, the education
costs for children of illegal aliens is about $34.5 billion per year.
COST: $34.5 Billion a year.
Harvard Professor George Borjas has reported that illegal aliens
displaced American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion dollars
in 2005. COST:$133 Billion a year.
The Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns states we are losing $35
billion a year in income tax collections from jobs that are now off
the books. COST: $35 Billion a year.
A Census Bureau study estimates that households headed by illegal
aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they paid in
taxes in 2002. These figures are only for the federal government;
costs at the state and local level are also significant. The study
also finds that if illegal aliens were given amnesty, the fiscal
deficit at the federal level would grow by nearly $29 billion. COST:
Between$10-29 Billion a year.
Jonathan Weisman of the Washington Post states "The Senates embattled
immigration bill would raise government spending by as much as $126
billion over the next decade. COST: $12.6 Billion a year.
Many illegal aliens are carrying horrific third world diseases. In the
40 years prior to 2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in
the US. In the following three years there have been 9,000 cases. TB
is epidemic in many illegal alien communities and a new Multiple-Drug-
Resistant (MDR) TB is spreading. Each person infected with TB will
infect 10 others. Treating a single case of MDR TB costs between
$250,000 and $1,200,000 per person. COST: Unknown
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Between 1991 - 1995, the number of illegal aliens sentenced in federal
courts increased by 167 percent, compared with 13 percent for
citizens. There are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex
offenders in the United States. This staggering statistic, rarely
mentioned by the media, was revealed in a study by Deborah Schurman-
Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. Since
1999 there have been nearly one million victims of rape, child
molestation, sexual homicides, and rape and molestation of handicapped
children by illegal immigrants here in the U.S.
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If illegal aliens just come here to work, why are so many of them on
Welfare or in prison?
If illegal aliens are so honest, hardworking and industrious, why are
the countries they come from hungry, broke and corrupt?
Third World countries don't produce stupid, corrupt
populations.....Stupid, corrupt populations produce Third World
countries. Some multiculturalists will try to convince you that
America is "a nation of immigrants." In that case, even so-called
"Native Americans" are immigrants, too, because they came here from
somewhere else. But they are permitted to have reservations, which are
technically sovereign nations, so they can preserve their ethnic and
cultural heritage.
Centuries ago it was legal to just come to America if you wanted to,
but that is no longer legal. Centuries ago it was legal to own slaves,
too, does that mean I can keep doing that?
Mexico has very strict immigration laws, and they enforce them.
Countries in Central and South America have even worse economies than
Mexico, and for them, sneaking into Mexico would be an improvement on
their lifestyle. Mexico protects it's southern border and has harsh
punishments for illegal aliens breaking their immigration laws.
If illegal immigration and cheap labor is so good for our economy, why
doesn't Mexico throw open it's southern border to immigrants? I'm sure
people from El Salvador and Guatemala just "want to make a better life
for themselves," so why does Mexico deport them or put them in prison?
Why don't we just tell Mexico that we are going to have the same laws
on our southern border that they have on theirs?
Not all illegal immigrants come here to rape and rob and kill, but
they are breaking our laws by coming here. Should we let them choose
which of our laws they obey and which ones they don't? Even an
"innocent" fruit picker who comes here "to better his life" is bad for
America. He works for cash, doesn't pay taxes, takes a job from an
American, uses our medical and social services, and his children
burden our school system. Besides, we don't get to stand at the border
and pick the "good" immigrants, do we? An unprotected border means we
have no control over who enters our country.
Do illegals only take the jobs that Americans don't want to do,
anyway? Well, white people have been building civilizations and
feeding ourselves for thousands of years without illegal aliens doing
the work. We can fly to the moon, I think we'd figure out how to pick
apples and mow our lawns. Besides, cheap labor lowers wages and work
conditions to the point that Americans can't support a family by doing
certain jobs. If there were no illegals here, business owners would
have to pay Americans a fair wage to do the work. Big business owners
make a lot of money by hiring illegal cheap labor, but they don't pass
any savings on to the consumer, they just get richer. How does that
benefit the average American? And even if you could save 10 cents on a
head of lettuce, is it worth the billions of tax dollars we have to
pay to support tens of millions of illegal aliens in our schools,
prisons, hospitals, etc?
Illegal aliens may come here to improve their lives, but it's time
that we realized that we need to look out for ourselves first. Mexico
sucks because it is full of Mexicans. If enough of them come here, our
way of life will become like theirs. If you don't want that, you had
better start paying attention to the problem of illegal aliens.