Illegal Immigration

I hear people saying illegal immigration helps our economy. I however, have to disagree with that. These are some facts about illegal aliens: - The cost of illegals in K-12 grades is over 13 billion and growing every second. - There are over 21 million illegal aliens in this country. - There are over 4 million children of illegals in public schools. - There are 667,781 illegal immigrant fugitives. - There are 355,077 illegal immigrants incarcerated. The cost of these incarcerations is over 1 billion. http://immigrationcounters.com... Another problem is illegal immigrants pay no or very little taxes. Here are some facts: - Most illegal aliens do not receive a typical paycheck with tax deductions. Instead they are paid in cash and do not pay taxes. Even when they do pay taxes (only possible if they use fraudulent social security numbers or government assigned ID tax numbers)their little income is not enough to pay for the medical expenses and all the expenses for all the children they give birth to. Illegal immigrant women have thousands of babies per year, free of charge and can't afford them once they give birth. Most learn to work the system so they get cash assistance and food stamps. - Illegal aliens are NOT necessarily coming here to work. Lou Dobbs recently reported that 33 percent of our prison population is now comprised of non-citizens. Plus, 36 to 42 percent of illegal aliens are on welfare. So, for a good proportion of these people, the American dream is crime and welfare, not coming here to work. http://www.freerepublic.com... Another argument I hear is "Illegals do the work Americans won't do. I am sorry but that is garbage. - Prior to 1965 when the immigration bill was passed, there was very little immigration. - In fact, between 1925 and 1965, there was even a period of net immigration out of the U.S. - During that time, the grass was being cut, the meat was being packed, the children were watched, the households were cleaned, and everything else people say we couldn't do without illegals was happening. The idea that we suddenly can't run a country without these illegals is garbage. - Those in favor of forien labor are corporations who are addicted to cheap labor. They benefit from it. Their benefits come at America's taxpayer's expense, when you consider that the American tax payer is virtually subsidizing the labor costs of the greedy corporations by supplying the illegal foreign workers and their families with welfare, free education, free medical, WICs, housing assistance, etc. -- something the corporations won't do. - Illegal aliens are NOT doing work Americans won't do. What jobs won't Americans do? In most states, Americans still clean their own houses, do their own landscaping, clean hotel rooms, work in restaurants and fast food places, paint houses, DO CONSTRUCTION WORK, work in airports, etc. just like we have the past years before "our" government allowed these people to invade our country. There are 18 million Americans who cannot find a job, so illegal aliens who are coming here to work do so at peril to American workers. http://www.theamericanresistance.com... http://www.freerepublic.com... One problem we face with illegals are the growing crime rates. - In 1980, our Federal and state facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens but at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities, as follows 46,000 in Federal prisons 74,000 in state prisons 147,000 in local jails - To give you an idea of "how much crime," as noted in Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Full Swing, in April 2005, the GAO released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following: Of the 55,322 illegal aliens studied, researchers found that they were arrested a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien. They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien. 49% had previously been convicted of a felony, 20% of a drug offense; 18% a violent offense, and 11%, other felony offenses. 81% of the arrests occurred after 1990 56% of those charged with a re entry offense had previously been convicted on at least 5 prior occasions. Defendants charged with unlawful re entry had the most extensive criminal histories. 90% had been previously arrested. Of those with a prior arrest, 50% had been arrested for violent or drug-related felonies. Note the last two points – they mean the perpetrators were "previously deported. CRIMES (actual arrests) 1. Number In USA 2. By illegal aliens Total 1. 14,094,186 2. 704,709 Murder & non-negligent manslaughter 1. 14,062 2. 703 Forcible rape 1. 25,528 2. 1,276 Offenses against family & children 1. 129,128 2. 6,456 - A government agent Mac Johnson set out to investigate the number of homicides perpetrated by illegal aliens. He found that between 1,806 and 2,510 people in the U.S. are murdered annually by illegal aliens. If he's right, that would represent between 11 percent and 15 percent of all murders in the U.S.": Using the mean of Mr. Johnson's range, that means there are 2,158 murders committed annually by illegal aliens – crimes that never would have happened if they weren't here. This is part of the collateral damage of tolerating illegal immigration. Note that at 2,158 murders that would be 15.3% of all the murders reported by the FBI, which would be about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population. http://www.usillegalaliens.com... Those are crimes in general. Here are some sex crime facts about illegals: - Researcher Deborah Schurman-Kauflin Ph.D. of the Violent Crimes Institute, reports on the analysis of 1,500 violent crimes from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal aliens. The data is found in her report, The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United States, which notes that, based on a figure of 12 million illegal immigrants and the fact that more of this population is male than average. The study breaks down the 1,500 cases reviewed this way: 525, or 35%, were child molestations 358, or 24%, were rapes 617, or 41%, were sexual homicides and serial murders - "In those instances, the illegal immigrants typically gained access to the victims after having worked as a day laborer at or near the victims' homes." "Victims ranged in age from 1 year old to 13 years old, with the average age being 6." - Schurman-Kauflin states that the illegal alien population includes 240,000 sex offenders – a "conservative estimate," she says. She goes on to say, "This translates to 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders coming across U.S. borders illegally per day." She points out the 1,500 offenders in her study had a total of 5,999 victims, an average of four victims for each sex offender and says, "This places the estimate for victimization numbers around 960,000 for the 88 months examined in this study." http://www.usillegalaliens.com... Those are my views on illegal immigration and these are facts supporting my views. Good luck to my opponent.