$10,500,000,000.00
I'd be willing to vote for the state of California to spend $10.5 billion to round them up and send them back to their respective homelands. As of 2004 this was the estimated cost to state taxpayers for education, medical care and incarceration. Even if the estimated tax contributions of illegal immigrant workers are deducted, outlays still come to nearly $9 billion per year. The annual fiscal cost from those three areas of state outlays comes to about $1,183 per household headed by a native-born resident.
Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in California and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Californians spend nearly $7.7 billion per year on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings. Nearly 15 percent of the K-12 public school students in California are children of illegal aliens.
Uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state's illegal alien population amount to about $1.4 billion a year.
The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in California's prisons and jails amounts to about $1.4 billion a year (this does not include related law enforcement and judicial costs or the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration). In 2001, one in five in our prison population were illegal immigrants who had been convicted of a felony after entering the country illegally.
The U.S. Justice Department estimated that 270,000 illegal immigrants served jail time nationally in 2003. Of those, 108,000 were in California. Some estimates show illegals now make up half of California's prison population. Roughly 17 percent of the prison population at the federal level are illegal aliens. That's a huge number since illegal aliens only account for about 3 percent of the total population.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 24.5 percent compared to 16.3 percent for native households. Once illegals get here, they are 50 percent more likely to be on welfare than citizens. How's that for hard working?
Listen, I work with immigrants every single day (hell, my first wife was an immigrant, albeit British). From El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, China, Vietnam, the Philipines, and they are some of the hardest working people I know and they have my utmost respect. Because the company I work for handles primarily government contracts, their immigration status is not in question (though this could not be said 15 years ago), some of my best friends are from Lebanon. They came here legally and worked hard to earn their citizenship. I am not opposed to people comming to America. I understand why they do. But is it too much to ask that they do it legally? And if they didn't, is it to much to ask that they get in line with those who do?
The measure of a country's greatness can best be determined by the number of people trying to get there. I'd say that makes America pretty damn great.
Just recognize and respect our laws regarding entering it.
I'd be willing to vote for the state of California to spend $10.5 billion to round them up and send them back to their respective homelands. As of 2004 this was the estimated cost to state taxpayers for education, medical care and incarceration. Even if the estimated tax contributions of illegal immigrant workers are deducted, outlays still come to nearly $9 billion per year. The annual fiscal cost from those three areas of state outlays comes to about $1,183 per household headed by a native-born resident.
Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in California and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Californians spend nearly $7.7 billion per year on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings. Nearly 15 percent of the K-12 public school students in California are children of illegal aliens.
Uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state's illegal alien population amount to about $1.4 billion a year.
The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in California's prisons and jails amounts to about $1.4 billion a year (this does not include related law enforcement and judicial costs or the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration). In 2001, one in five in our prison population were illegal immigrants who had been convicted of a felony after entering the country illegally.
The U.S. Justice Department estimated that 270,000 illegal immigrants served jail time nationally in 2003. Of those, 108,000 were in California. Some estimates show illegals now make up half of California's prison population. Roughly 17 percent of the prison population at the federal level are illegal aliens. That's a huge number since illegal aliens only account for about 3 percent of the total population.
According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 24.5 percent compared to 16.3 percent for native households. Once illegals get here, they are 50 percent more likely to be on welfare than citizens. How's that for hard working?
Listen, I work with immigrants every single day (hell, my first wife was an immigrant, albeit British). From El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, China, Vietnam, the Philipines, and they are some of the hardest working people I know and they have my utmost respect. Because the company I work for handles primarily government contracts, their immigration status is not in question (though this could not be said 15 years ago), some of my best friends are from Lebanon. They came here legally and worked hard to earn their citizenship. I am not opposed to people comming to America. I understand why they do. But is it too much to ask that they do it legally? And if they didn't, is it to much to ask that they get in line with those who do?
The measure of a country's greatness can best be determined by the number of people trying to get there. I'd say that makes America pretty damn great.
Just recognize and respect our laws regarding entering it.
