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Just one example:
The economic and social consequences of
illegal immigration across the 1,940
mile long America-Mexico border are
staggering. | | | |
FAIR
research suggests that "between 40 and
50 percent of wage-loss among
low-skilled Americans is due to the
immigration of low-skilled workers. Some
native workers lose not just wages but
their jobs through immigrant
competition. An estimated 1,880,000
American workers are displaced from
their jobs every year by immigration;
the cost for providing welfare and
assistance to these Americans is over
$15 billion a year." The National
Research Council, part of the National
Academy of Sciences, found in 1997 that
the average immigrant without a high
school education imposes a net fiscal
burden on public coffers of $89,000
during the course of his or her
lifetime. The average immigrant with
only a high school education creates a
lifetime fiscal burden of $31,000.8
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80% of cocaine and 50% of heroin in the
U.S. is smuggled across the border by
Mexican nationals. Drug cartels spend a
half-billion dollars per year bribing
Mexico's corrupt generals and police
officials, and armed confrontations
between the Mexican army and U.S. Border
Patrol agents are a real threat. There
have been 118 documented incursions by
the Mexican military over the last five
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Illegal aliens have cost billions of
taxpayer-funded dollars for medical
services. Dozens of hospitals in
Texas, New Mexico Arizona, and
California, have been forced to
close or face bankruptcy because of
federally-mandated programs
requiring free emergency room
services to illegal aliens.
Taxpayers pay half-a-billion dollars
per year incarcerating illegal alien
criminals. | | | |
Immigration is a
net drain on the economy; corporate
interests reap the benefits of cheap
labor, while taxpayers pay the
infrastructural cost.
FAIR
research shows "the net annual cost of
immigration has been estimated at
between $67 and $87 billion a year. The
National Academy of Sciences found that
the net fiscal drain on American
taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a
year per native household. Even studies
claiming some modest overall gain for
the economy from immigration ($1 to $10
billion a year) have found that it is
outweighed by the fiscal cost ($15 to
$20 billion a year) to native
taxpayers." | | | |
"In the NAFTA era,
a staggering 87 percent of Mexico's
imports go to the United States, while
Mexicans living in the United States
send home more than $8 billion annually.
Fox has said he considers his
constituency to include the 22 million
to 24 million Mexicans and
Mexican-Americans in the United States.
Mexican candidates now make campaign
stops in U.S. cities like Los Angeles,
Phoenix and Fresno, Calif." (Mexico's
muddle,
Ruben Navarrette Jr., March 26, 2003)
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For
more information, see The Washington
Times article and series
Chaos along the
border,
October 6, 2002, the FAIR reports
Immigration and
the Economy,
Immigration Lowers
Wages for American Workers,
and the article
Record amount of
remittances sent from US to Mexico.
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8
Center for Immigration Studies report
Immigration From
Mexico - Assessing the Impact on the
United States,
subsection
Impact of Mexican
Immigration on Public Coffers.
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