A new report from Numbers USA, which advocates for
limits on
immigration into the United States, says each American paid $330 last
year to
provide government services for illegal aliens.
Numbers USA staffer Chad MacDonald said if an
amnesty plan
becomes law, allowing illegals from coast-to-coast to suddenly establish
citizenship, their retirement program will set U.S. taxpayers back an
estimated
$2.6 trillion.
In an interview with WND, MacDonald addressed a long
list of
issues, including the costs of illegal immigration. "Last year, every
American
on the average paid $330 to provide government services for
low-education
illegal immigrant households," he said. "If amnesty legislation would be
passed
by Congress, like the proposal from 2007, American taxpayers would have
to pay
$2.6 trillion in retirement costs to those amnestied illegal
aliens."
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MacDonald and a team
of volunteers has been following the TeaParty.org, an organization that
has been
traveling the country staging rallies to protest the high costs of
government
and advocate for more individual rights and responsibilities. Flyers by
the
thousands have been given out, he said. The message isn't complicated:
The more
immigrants, the higher taxes go.
He said since 1990, immigrants who have come to the
U.S. have
swelled the welfare rolls. "Fifty-three percent of recent immigrants use
welfare
services and immigrants who have arrived since 1990 and their legally
born
children account for a 75 percent growth rate in the nation's uninsured
population," MacDonald said. That has voters worried. "The issue is
about jobs
and about fiscal responsibility, and that resonates with the voters,"
MacDonald
said.
He said even in left-leaning regions, such as the
Northeast,
he's found supporters. "Today I brought 5,000 flyers and I'm down to
about
1,500. I have 50 activists here handing out the flyers and we've gotten a
great
response from the crowd. The response has been good at every stop along
the way
as well," MacDonald reported at the Boston tea-party event this
week.
"There's
always opposition, but I
didn't encounter any opposition in Boston," MacDonald said. He said
Numbers USA
is not anti-immigrant. "Numbers USA is absolutely not anti-immigrant.
We're just
for lower immigration numbers. We have a very strong no immigrant
bashing policy
on our web site and for our members," MacDonald explained.
"It's about policy for us. It's about reducing the
amount of
legal and illegal immigration to historical levels when this country had
great
growth and had low unemployment and that's our policy," he said. "We are
a
nation of immigrants and if it is working the way it has historically
worked,
250,000 to 300,000 each year, and we've experienced great growth,"
MacDonald
said.
"Last year there were 1.8 million. We had 1.1
million green
cards issued last year. That's hard to understand when there are nearly
25
million Americans who are unemployed," MacDonald said. He said another
expense
hits taxpayers in the number of illegal aliens who are in prison. "I
can't speak
to the situation in every state, but I know that in California, about 30
percent
of the inmate population is illegal," MacDonald said.
Advocates for amnesty claim that by passing an
amnesty bill,
the U.S. could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue.
But that
doesn't align with a research report by the Center for Immigration
Studies. The
CIS report said claims made by a pro-amnesty think tank about illegal
immigrants
and a 90 percent tax payment rate are misleading.
"The
report, 'Immigrant
Legalization: Assessing the Labor Market Effects,' was published by the
foundation-supported Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), and
was
written by Laura E. Hill, Magnus Lofstrom, and Joseph M. Hayes. You will
be
reading about the 90 percent or so tax payment rate throughout the
upcoming
legalization debate," CIS reported. "The trouble is that this finding,
though
narrowly accurate about the people studied, totally misrepresents the
characteristics of America's illegal population generally," the CIS
report
continued.
The CIS report claims that the California group used
an ideal
model to back their findings about illegal immigrants. "If you read the
technical appendices to their study carefully, you will find that they
draw data
from the 2003 New Immigrant Survey. And who was studied in that survey?
It was
people who, and I am quoting, 'have recently gained legal permanent
residence in
the United States,'" the CIS report concluded.
Other
costs include the losses
from crime by illegal aliens, an issue that reached headlines in recent
weeks
with the shooting death of an Arizona rancher who may have been trying
to help
an illegal alien crossing his ranch. States themselves sometimes have
resorted
to fighting back. Arizona recently adopted a plan that allows law
enforcement
officers to check the immigration status of any suspect if the officer
has
reason to suspect the person's legal status.
Besides its public information campaign, MacDonald
said his
organization also is seeking support in Congress that could be used to
defeat
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