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Title: The Cost of Illegal Immigration
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Gatestone Institute
URL Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11829/illegal-immigration-cost
Published: Feb 7, 2018
Author: Ruthie Blum
Post Date: 2018-02-07 11:07:36 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 1961
Comments: 8
"At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens, and about 4.2 million citizen children of illegal aliens." — Matt O'Brien and Spencer Raley. It is also rather more than the single payment of $25 billion that it will cost to build a wall -- five and a half times more, and every year. "Undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes..." — John R. Lott. In 2015, included in the DEA's drug-threat assessment was the fact that drug overdoses killed more people in the United States than car accidents or guns. Many of these drugs [were] smuggled in large volumes by drug cartels." In his State of the Union address on January 30, US President Donald J. Trump referred to the brutal murder of two 16-year-old girls from Long Island in December 2016 by members of the "savage MS-13 gang," responsible for a spate of other gruesome killings in the area, as well. Many of these gang members, he explained, had entered the United States illegally. "For decades, open borders have allowed drugs and gangs to pour into our most vulnerable communities," he said. Calling on Congress "to finally close the deadly loopholes that have allowed... criminal gangs to break into our country," he listed the four pillars of his immigration-reform proposal: Although he did not specify this in his speech, Trump reportedly is seeking $25 billion from Congress to fund the wall. Opponents of the wall have been arguing that illegal immigrants do not commit crimes at a higher rate than legal immigrants or native-born Americans; that illegal immigration has been a boon to the economy, rather than a drain on it; and that the cost both of deportation and a wall far exceeds the benefits of both. These claims are repeatedly voiced by the Trump administration's detractors, as part of their campaign to accuse the president of racism; but what are the facts? To set the record straight, let us take a look at a number of those that have been obscured or ignored by the media. As far as the cost of the wall is concerned, a study released in September 2017 by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reveals that, "At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens, and about 4.2 million citizen children of illegal aliens." This, the report says, is a nearly $3 billion increase in the cost since 2013. It is also rather more than the single payment of $25 billion that it will cost to build a wall – five and a half times more, and every year. The same goes for the cost of deporting illegal immigrants. According to Steven A. Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, The question of the rates of criminality among illegal aliens vs. those of legal immigrants and American-born citizens has been examined by John R. Lott, Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, using Arizona's prison population as a microcosm for study. According to Lott, the ability to measure the crime-rate among illegal immigrants in the U.S. has been difficult, due to many factors, including the lack of a national data base and "primitive" methodology – such as "simple, cross-sectional analysis to see whether areas with higher immigrant populations have higher crime rates," and "a purely time series approach... look at the United States as a whole and note that crime has decreased since 1990 as immigration has increased." The advantage of the Arizona Department of Corrections study, Lott says, is that Peter Kirsanow wryly solved the mystery in National Review, writing: According to Lott, whose research spans 1985-2017: The findings are unequivocal, as the following summary illustrates: "[Y]oung undocumented immigrants commit crime at twice the rate of young U.S. citizens. These undocumented immigrants also tend to commit more serious crimes. If undocumented immigrants committed crime nationally as they do in Arizona, in 2016 they would have been responsible for over 1,000 more murders, 5,200 rapes, 8,900 robberies, 25,300 aggravated assaults, and 26,900 burglaries." These numbers do not even include the cost to American taxpayers of the toll taken on America's children by illegally imported drugs. Although available information on this is at best spotty, the key finding from the DEA's 2017 National Drug Threat Assessment is that the "most commonly reported greatest drug threat was heroin, at 44.1 percent of law enforcement responses... This was followed by 29.8 percent of respondents indicating methamphetamine was their greatest drug threat, 9.3 percent reporting controlled prescription drugs..." This tells us something about the extent of the problem, but not enough. The 2010 drug-threat assessment, released a year after the previous administration took office, revealed that, In 2015, included in the DEA's drug-threat assessment was the fact that drug overdoses killed more people in the United States than car accidents or guns. As was noted by the BBC at the time, "Many of these drugs are smuggled in large volumes by drug cartels..." The late Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." His successors in Congress would do well to remember this while debating the issue of illegal immigration. They certainly need to keep it in mind when voting on the administration's proposed plan. Poster Comment: A lot of good info in one article here, including John Lott's recent study."...The average cost of a deportation is much smaller than the net fiscal drain created by the average illegal immigrant," in part due to the fact that "illegal immigrants overwhelmingly have modest levels of education — most have not completed high school or have only a high school education...creating more in costs for government than they pay in taxes." "over our 32.5-year period, we know each prisoner who entered the prison system, their criminal convictions history, and whether he is a documented or undocumented immigrant. The only mystery is why this type of data has not been utilized until now." "Unfortunately, almost every public official not named Jeff Sessions guards against disclosure of illegal-immigrant crime data more tenaciously than disclosure of nuclear launch codes." "Arizona's prison population data allow us to compare undocumented immigrants' share of the prison population with their estimated share of the state population...For the first time, we break down the data to examine differences between US citizens, undocumented immigrants, and legal permanent residents. One advantage of using convictions rather than just reported crimes is that convictions depend on a 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard of evidence and thus are much less likely to count innocent people." "Undocumented immigrants are at least 142% more likely to be convicted of a crime than other Arizonans. They also tend to commit more serious crimes and serve 10.5% longer sentences, more likely to be classified as dangerous, and 45% more likely to be gang members than U.S. citizens...There are dramatic differences between in the criminal histories of convicts who are U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants... "From January through November 2009, U.S. seizures of illegal drugs in transit exceeded 1,626 metric tons, indicating that DTOs succeed in moving several thousand tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin, and MDMA into the United States annually. There are unique smuggling and transportation methods..."
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#1. To: Tooconservative, Stuck in LBJ Great Society, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#0)
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Indoctrination, Free Cheese, Cheap Gov Drugs, Open Borders NWO One thing conspicuously missing from all presidents since Ike Eisenhower is enforcing existing immigration law, and deporting illegal aliens. Republican and Democrat globalists just don't believe in US sovereignty, and the Rule Of Law. The D&R party is all about America-last since Ike. The uni-party faithful seem to be stuck in LBJ's Great Society, and can't figure how to vote their way out of his and Poppy's bipartisan NWO.
That's myth rooted in the mistaken belief that the financial system is still grounded in the reality of supply and demand. The 1s and 0s that constitute today's "wealth" have very very little to do with supply and demand, and haven't since at least 2006, when the owners stopped publishing m3. How do they factor in the Quadrillions of "dollars" worth of derivative a$$paper floating in the global economic cesspool? They don't. The whole system is largely a make believe casino. From the perspective of the owners of the system/casino, illegal immigration facilitates positive velocity of their almighty 1s and 0s, and the associated processes wherein they siphon off hard assets and... POWER.
Yep. Observe how the advent of the Bush Family Kleptocracy closely parallels the rise of something else Eisenhower tried to warn us about in 1961.
There is no way we're going to save $134.9 billion because there is no way we're going to deport 12.5 million illegals. Unless we put a bounty on them. Hell, we can't even get rid of 700,000 DACA illegals and their parents. And we know who they are.
taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens How about cutting off the $134.9 billion in freebies that the D&R party is giving them to stay? Food Stamps, free housing, medical, schools, amnesty(s) bills, multi lingual everything, chain migration, free drugs, gov cheese, DACA sanctuary protection nationwide, political refugee visas/citizenship, anchor baby birthright citizenship, motor voter and a host of other gov programs to encourage illegal aliens to invade and make themselves at home. Not going to happen with the D&R party running the show.
Trump's economy already took four million off food stamps. No thanks to you Hillary supporters.
Observe how the advent of the Bush Family Kleptocracy closely parallels the rise of something else Eisenhower tried to warn us about in 1961. Yup,while the Dims are foolish enough to focus on giving money away to poor minorities,the alleged Republicans sent the Bush Crime Family Forward to give welfare to the international bankers and arms dealers. You might say,a "Full Service Welfare Program that doesn't discriminate against the wealthy." In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Do that and they self-deport. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
#2. To: Tooconservative (#0)
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"Taxpayers shell out"
#3. To: hondo68 (#1)
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conspicuously missing from all presidents since Ike Eisenhower
#4. To: Tooconservative (#0)
"At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens,
#5. To: misterwhite, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#4)
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there is no way we're going to deport 12.5 million illegals
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
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Food Stamps
#7. To: VxH (#3)
Yep.
#8. To: hondo68 (#5)
How about cutting off the $134.9 billion in freebies that the D&R party is giving them to stay? Food Stamps, free housing, medical, schools, amnesty(s) bills, multi lingual everything, chain migration, free drugs, gov cheese, DACA sanctuary protection nationwide, political refugee visas/citizenship, anchor baby birthright citizenship, motor voter and a host of other gov programs to encourage illegal aliens to invade and make themselves at home.
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