We Need a Border Wall

You will find that in my furst post I mentioned that we need a wall on our Border with Canada. BUT what heppens once we put a wall up there? Mexico is still wide open, and more people will still come through. That is why we need a wall on BOTH borders, as I have suggested Now some Illegals MIGHT stimulate the economy is some ways, but in reality they are a MAJOR harm. From the Center for immigratin Studies (CIS) *Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household. *Among the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion). *With nearly two-thirds of illegal aliens lacking a high school degree, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their legal status or heavy use of most social services. *On average, the costs that illegal households impose on federal coffers are less than half that of other households, but their tax payments are only one-fourth that of other households. *Many of the costs associated with illegals are due to their American-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth. Thus, greater efforts at barring illegals from federal programs will not reduce costs because their citizen children can continue to access them. Also JAMES RUFUS KOREN Antelope Valley Press LOS ANGELES - Through their citizen children, illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County collect $420 million annually in welfare and food stamps, according to a report requested by 5th District County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services told the supervisor that payments to illegal immigrants' children amount to approximately 24% of the county's combined CalWORKS and food stamps budget, officials said. "What we found was kind of astonishing," said Tony Bell, an Antonovich aide. Each month, the county doles out $77 million in CalWORKS assistance, $20 million of which goes to the citizen dependent children of illegal immigrants, said Helen Berberian, another Antonovich aide. CalWORKS is the state's welfare-to-work program. Along with CalWORKS assistance, the county approves $70 million every month in food stamps, with $15 million going to legal children of illegal immigrants, Berberian said. The welfare payments go to nearly 100,000 children of 60,000 illegal immigrants, Antonovich's staff said. His staff estimated that Los Angeles County has almost 12% of the United States' illegal immigrant population. Illegals do much more damage then good. In a country where we have free markets, illegal immigration is not good, for it prevents the "creative destruction" that is needed to keep our ceconomy competetive. Creative destruction is the loss of old jobs (Like lettuce picking) and the replacment of those jobs with better ones. Who takes over the lettuce picking? Machines. (This is found in J.D. Hayworth's book: "Watever it takes") As long as there are illegals coming in and taking these "crud jobs" there is a prevention of creative destruction. These are just a few reasons why we need a compleat U.S. Border wall, on both borders.