Do the citizens in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas know this? Would they still want any local or state govts to be soft on illegals? Imagine how much better public schools in your districts could be if those billions of dollars were spent on teachers, computers, musical instruments, sports equipment. Or on the US infrastructure, like roads, bridges, etc (this would also create jobs). Wouldn't you like to make $15 an hour repaving roads or $35 an hour welding bridge structures?
Im NOT against immigration or immigrants. Im against them coming here illegally, not paying taxes and costing Me and all tax payers billions of dollars, taking money away from OUR children's education, taking money out of the US economy and sending it home to their families south of the border. If they make $2000 a month tax free, spend half on smokes and booze and rent (they get food for free via food stamps) and send the rest south. That's $1000 out of the US economy. Now multiply that by 12 months and then by 12 million illegals. It's 144 Billion dollars... yes 9 zeros. I bet your neighborhood would be a lot nicer if some of that money was spent there and not sent south.
Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers about $113 billion a year at the federal, state and local level.
The bulk of the costs -- some $84 billion -- are absorbed by state and local governments.
The annual outlay that illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers is an average amount per native-headed household of $1,117. The fiscal impact per household varies considerably because the greatest share of the burden falls on state and local taxpayers whose burden depends on the size of the illegal alien population in that locality.
Education for the children of illegal aliens constitutes the single largest cost to taxpayers, at an annual price tag of nearly $52 billion. Nearly all of those costs are absorbed by state and local governments.
At the federal level, about one-third of outlays are matched by tax collections from illegal aliens. At the state and local level, an average of less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegal immigration is recouped through taxes collected from illegal aliens.
Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury