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stu2002
05-19-2010, 05:18 AM
Arizona’s illegal immigrant population is costing the state’s taxpayers even more than once thought -- a whopping $2.7 billion in 2009, according to researchers at the public interest group that helped write the state's new immigration law.

Researchers at FAIR – The Federation for American Immigration Reform -- released data exclusively to FoxNews.com that show a steady cost climb in multiple areas, including incarceration, education and health, in the last five years.

FAIR’s cost estimates – compiled for a comprehensive national immigration report it plans to release next month – include several new cost areas, including welfare and the justice system, that weren’t in previous reports.

FAIR admits that the cost to implement the new law in some of those categories, such as incarceration, will add to the economic strain on the state. But overall, it says, the loss of immigrants either from the deterrent effect of the law, voluntary exodus or from mass deportations, will help the state financially.

Also, the savings to the state will far overwhelm any fallout from boycotts (estimated at between $7 million and $52 million) being threatened in the wake of the law's passage, according to FAIR spokesman Bob Dane.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/17/immigration-costs-rising-rapidlty-new-study-says/St

romacox
05-19-2010, 05:47 AM
* In 2008, Florida’s illegal immigrant population cost state taxpayers more than $3.8 billion per year. http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=17191&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=2061

* A new financial report shows that all the tax increases, spending cuts and raids on savings accounts weren't enough for Florida's budget, which could have a deficit next year of as much as $2.6 billion. Resource: : http://www.miamiherald.com/2009/10/07/1270181/economists-warn-of-an... (http://www.miamiherald.com/2009/10/07/1270181/economists-warn-of-another-big.html#ixzz0o2cgHyT4)

Our Representatives continue to cut funding to our children's education, but won't touch the illegal population. When will they become as gutsy as the lady governor in Arizona, and why are the American people tolerating this injustice to our children?

Zippyjuan
05-19-2010, 01:21 PM
Anybody have any figures as to how much they contribute in taxes- both in direct taxes collected (unless they are getting paid in cash, they are having taxes taken out of their paychecks) and from money they spend at other businesses? Crime in Arizona has been declining so that should mean a lowering of costs of incarceration while enforcing the new law will put more people into jails while their citizenship status is resolved which will actually increase the cost to Arizona's justice system.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/03/imagine-how-tough-the-arizona

According to FBI statistics, violent crimes reported in Arizona dropped by nearly 1,500 reported incidents between 2005 and 2008. Reported property crimes also fell, from about 287,000 reported incidents to 279,000 in the same period. These decreases are accentuated by the fact that Arizona's population grew by 600,000 between 2005 and 2008....

The number of apprehensions of unauthorized immigrants made by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency [also shows a decline]. Since a peak in 2000 of more than 600,000 illegal crossers apprehended, the number fell to 241,000 in 2009, Tucson Sector Public Affairs Officer Mario Escalante told CNN.

"We've seen a steady decline," he said.



If things are getting worse due to the government failing to enforce immigration laws and borders, why are things getting better?