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johnny@. wrote:
> Illegal Immigration Costs Texans $4.7 Billion a Year
>
> Posted by FAIR on Tuesday April 5, 2005 at 2:03 pm MST [ Send Story
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> Finds New Study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform
(FAIR)
>
> Mass illegal immigration is costing Texas more than $4.65 billion a
year
> finds a new report released today by the Federation for American
> Immigration Reform (FAIR). The Costs of Illegal Immigration to
Texans,
> examines the fiscal costs being borne by the state to provide
education,
> health care and incarceration for an illegal alien population now
> estimated to exceed 1.5 million.
>
> Using a 1994 study published by the Urban Institute as a baseline,
The
> Cost of Illegal Immigration to Texans looks at Census Bureau and
other
> data to estimate the explosive growth in the size and cost of illegal

> immigration in the nation's second most populous state. In 2004,
the
> annual fiscal burden of illegal immigration amounted to about $725
per
> Texas household headed by a native-born resident.
>
> Among the report's key findings:
>
> Ø Texas spends more than $4 billion a year to provide K-12 education
for
> the children of illegal aliens.
>
> Ø These children account for nearly 12 percent of the total K-12
school
> population.
>
> Ø Taxpayer-funded medical outlays for health care provided to the
> state's illegal alien population amount to about $520 million a
year.
>
> Ø The uncompensated cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in
Texas's
> state and county prisons amounts to at least $150 million a year.
>
> The costs of other programs and services provided to illegal aliens,
and
> the impact of mass illegal immigration on the jobs and wages of
Texans
> who have been forced to compete against illegal immigrants are not
> included in FAIR's study, and would probably result in still higher

> costs to the state and its residents.
>
> "In Texas, as in many other states, the phenomenon of mass illegal
> immigration is draining public coffers and robbing local residents of

> access to essential public services," observed Dan Stein, president
of
> FAIR. "While every state and almost every community around the
country
> is struggling to improve education and rein-in health care costs, our

> nation's failure to address rampant illegal immigration is
compounding
> the problems that state and local governments face.
>
> "All across the country, people are waking up to the reality that
> illegal immigration has become an enormously expensive phenomenon
paid
> for by workers, taxpayers and schoolchildren," Stein continued.
"If
> anyone would ask Texans if they want to subsidize more than a million

> illegal aliens to the tune of $4.65 billion a year, or see their
public
> schools, hospitals and prisons overcrowded with illegal immigrants,
the
> answer would be a resounding 'no.' Yet federal and state policies
have
> failed to protect Texans from that burden and have forced them and
other
> Americans to subsidize mass illegal immigration."
>
> http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=19987

Bush does nothing to stem the bleeding of resources. 

Tom