Illegal aliens: a welfare nation

The Center of Immigration Studies has a new study out today on the illegal immigration situation, based on US Census data and using analytical methods accepted by the Pew Hispanic Center, the Dept of Homeland Security, the Census Bureau and other institutions. Among its findings:

+ Immigrants account for one in eight U.S. residents, the highest level in 80 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13.

+ Overall, nearly one in three immigrants is an illegal alien. Half of Mexican and Central American immigrants and one-third of South American immigrants are illegal.

+ Since 2000, 10.3 million immigrants have arrived — the highest seven-year period of immigration in U.S. history. More than half of post-2000 arrivals (5.6 million) are estimated to be illegal aliens.

+ Of adult immigrants, 31 percent have not completed high school, compared to 8 percent of natives. Since 2000, immigration increased the number of workers without a high school diploma by 14 percent, and all other workers by 3 percent.

+ The proportion of immigrant-headed households using at least one major welfare program is 33 percent, compared to 19 percent for native households.

+ The poverty rate for immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under 18) is 17 percent, nearly 50 percent higher than the rate for natives and their children.

+ 34 percent of immigrants lack health insurance, compared to 13 percent of natives. Immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for 71 percent of the increase in the uninsured since 1989.

+ The primary reason for the high rates of immigrant poverty, lack of health insurance, and welfare use is their low education levels, not their legal status or an unwillingness to work.

On the Corner, CIS's Mark Krikorian explains the welfare stat this way:

This isn't because they're plotting to rip us off, but because they're 19th century workers in a 21st century economy, and simply don't have the tools to support themselves. The result is government-subsidized immigration, with taxpayers footing the bill for all this "cheap" labor.

The report concludes that: "Even during the great wave of immigration at the turn of the 19th century, the immigrant population was much less than half what it is today." We simply are being swamped, and there should be a time out for assimilation. Yet as a liberal, Spanish-speaking friend admitted to me yesterday, in a conversation about what each side in the immigration debate is loath to admit, that on his pro-immigration side, "The uncomfortable truth is that Latino immigrants are not assimilating."

According to the data, in Texas, my state, 47 percent of all immigrants lack health insurance (versus 18.6 percent of native-born Americans). What do they do when they get sick? Go to public hospitals, and get treated at the taxpayer's expense. I do not favor turning away sick people, whatever their immigration status. But come on, we shouldn't be letting them in in the first place. What are our own citizens who lack health insurance, and who need public care, supposed to do? Stand in line behind citizens of other countries who are here illegally? It's not right. Similarly on the public schooling situation, I'm aware of a Texas public elementary school where a senior administrator admitted to native parents from the neighborhood that their kids were going to be kept behind because the school has so many Hispanic kids whose English skills are poor to non-existent that it affects the quality of the education for all kids. Is that right?

Shockingly, an estimated 50 percent of the foreign-born population of Texas are in this country illegally -- 7 percent of the total Texas population. Almost one in 10 Texans -- and half of all immigrants -- have no legal right to be in this country. And this isn't a serious crisis? Apparently not to my newspaper: as my Dallas Morning News colleague Mike Hashimoto points out, the NYTimes, USA Today and other major papers carried stories about the new study today, but we didn't.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2007/11/illegal-immigrants-a-welfare-n.html

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Illegal Aliens Costs $300M Per Year

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A new report puts a price tag on how much illegal immigrants cost Tennessee taxpayers.

It is close to $300 million every year, according to the study conducted the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a nonprofit research group.

It contradicts a report by the state comptroller's office released in August that indicated undocumented immigrants boosted the economy and did not take jobs from any Tennessee workers.

Jack Martin's team of researchers at FAIR investigated the cost of illegal immigration in Tennessee.

"The largest category of expenses to the taxpayers is for the education of the children of illegal immigrants," Martin said.

The cost is $255 million each year for education from kindergarten through the twelfth grade and ESL programs. Martin estimates an additional $30 million is spent on healthcare and incarceration, bringing the total to $285 million.

How does this report differ from the state comptroller's report?

"One of the main differences the comptroller's report was also trying to calculate the value of goods and services provided by the illegal immigrants," Martin said. "And that doesn't really make any sense unless you're working on the assumption that those jobs wouldn't be done by Americans if the illegal immigrants were not taking those jobs."

Martin doesn't believe the immigrants are doing jobs Americans workers would not do.

"There's no job in the United States being done only by illegal aliens, so you know there are Americans working alongside illegal aliens," he said.

NewsChannel 5 assembled a small sampling of Nashville's Hispanic community to respond to the report.

"It's a growth," said Luis Sepulveda. "We have to have extra help to develop it. When they come here, whether illegal or not, makes no difference. They are extra labor that we need."

If Tennesseans are spending million to educate illegal immigrants is that really a bad thing?

"I will never consider investing on education as something that is detrimental to our growth and development," said Yuri Cunza, president of the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

"Everything has a negative and we can all say, well that person shouldn't have this, but we can also look at the positives," said Rachel Hernandez. "I think that sometimes with immigrants we're forgetting their part."

A Tennessee Department of Education spokeswoman said it's hard to estimate just how many children of illegal immigrants are actually in the state school system. Federal law prohibits school officials from asking about a student's immigration status.

Several lawmakers such as state Rep. Debra Maggart are calling for the state comptroller to deliver another report about illegal immigration.

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=7323049

Video - From Georgia - Fraudulent ID for illegal aliens

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OUTRAGE! No More Invasion Member Attacked By Illegal Aliens At Home Depot - Blood Spilled

Well, this is an absolute outrage of the highest order! Blood has been spilled in Canoga Park, California over the illegal alien issue and surprisingly to some it's not that of an illegal aliens, but that of an American patriot! Simply outrageous and I'm furious. You can watch the video below of the aftermath of the attack, it is not for the squeamish. Yes, it is blood and no it is not a simple drip of blood.

I say "surprisingly to some" that it's not an illegal aliens blood, because those of us who have been involved and covering this issue for years know that American citizens blood is being spilled on a daily basis at the hands of illegal aliens in this country. The general estimate is as few as 12 a day in this country are killed by illegal aliens, some say the number is as high as 25 on average!

You would not know that though if you believe people like George Bush who call these patriots calling for our laws to be enforced, vigilantes. You'll also hear the rhetoric from groups like La Raza and the Mexican government (isn't that redundant?) that these groups are racist and violent, yet time and time again the only violence is coming from the illegal aliens, communists and socialists. Eventually I believe the tipping point will be reached and they will receive the violence they so justly deserve if they continue to allow things like what happened in Canoga Park on November 3, 2007 to continue.

Reports are that some illegal alien thugs and their scumbag supporters showed up at a Home Depot day labor site protest to "counter-protest" members of Save Our State and No More Invasion. At the conclusion patriots were cornered and attacked as they left the event - led by an illegal alien who has threatened them at past rallies. One patriot was hit in the head with a rock, and illegal aliens picked up bikes and threw them at the member along with paint cans.

This is what happens when you protest peacefully as an American citizen in your own country and your government does absolutely nothing to enforce the law and remove foreign invaders from your soil! This is what has been stated by those of us against illegal immigration, including Save Our State and the Minutemen, time and time again, that these aren't just simply people coming here to work, but to physically take over our country.

If you can watch the video below as an American citizen and not be as outraged as I am right now. Not be as angry and furious at our government. Then you have absolutely not one single shred of patriotism in your body. These people are out there simply calling for our laws to be enforced and they are viciously attacked by these low life criminal scumbags!

This is not the first time that people have been pushed around at these rallies in California and the police have done nothing. They don't make arrests of the illegal aliens, they treat it as a joke. Well it is no longer a joke. Now we don't just have American citizens dying in their homes due to illegal alien murderers and rapists. We don't just have American citizens dying on our streets due to illegal alien drunk drivers. We now have American citizens attacked for using their rights as American citizens in this country.

Source - http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/002558.html