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Immigrant/Resident Alien: a foreign national present
in another country with the host county's permission.
Illegal Alien: a foreign national present
in another country without that host nation's permission
and in violation of law.
According to the U. S. Census Bureau,
the population of the United States will DOUBLE
during the lifetime of anyone now in their twenties!!
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to U.S. taxpayers.
Every day another 6,000 immigrants will arrive in our
Country, many of them illegally.
The Tennessee Legislature voted in 2001 to allow
illegal immigrants to obtain valid Tennessee Drivers
Licenses by omitting the requirement to present a valid
Social Security Card upon application even though LEGAL
citizens are required by law to have their Social
Security numbers on file with the state upon applying
for their licenses!! According to many in the Tennessee
Legislature, if the ILLEGALS were given licenses, they
would somehow become magically more responsible
drivers. This has not happened. Since there is nothing
being done to validate the REAL identity of these
applicants (they must only provide a rent receipt or
something similar showing their home address), when they
are involved in an accident, they simply move and obtain
another license or move out of state to avoid arrest or
litigation. This is placing an unfair burden on LEGAL
citizens who drive both in the forms of increased
insurance rates and treatment by the State Department of
Transportation and Division of Motor Vehicles. In
2004, many of these same legislators passed a bill
to continue rewarding illegals with state-sanctioned
driving privileges through the issuance of 'driving
certificates' (again without any REAL idea of who these
people are or where they came from). During the
winter of 2006 / 2006, the Tennessee Department of
Safety, at the behest of Governor Bredesen and due to
the rampant fraud being committed, the Certificate for
Driving Program was temporarily halted pending review.
Now, thankfully, some sanity has
returned to our State Legislature in May 2007 and bills
were passed to end the practice of giving licenses,
certificates and IDs to foreign nationals who could not
prove legal residence. For more information on
these bills,
please click here.
ILLEGAL immigrants who oftentimes reside more than
one family to a home or apartment are also placing an
increased burden on our schools and health services as
property taxes do not increase according to the number
of occupants. The majority of our increase in school
attendance (especially in the urban areas) is due to
mass, unchecked immigration. Bilingual education alone
is increasing the costs of maintaining our education
apparatus each and every year that ILLEGALS are still
allowed to come here and enroll their children in the
schools paid for by our tax dollars. Nashville, Davidson
County, alone spends over 12 MILLION dollars per year on
bi-lingual education!!
Health care costs, too, are on the rise due to the
bills incurred by ILLEGAL immigrants who seek care,
especially critical and emergency care, in our hospitals
and clinics. The health care providers are forced to
raise their rates to make up for these loses. Rates that
we and our insurance carriers must pay whenever we may
need medical care. This doesn't even take into account
the TennCare program which, as we all know, is in
serious financial trouble and takes up a LARGE
percentage of our state budget.
Twenty-five percent of the inmates in our prisons
(who you and I pay to house, cloth, feed and see to
their health care, by the way) are ILLEGAL immigrants
who broke our laws. If someone will break the laws of
our Country and our State to come here ILLEGALLY, why
should we think that they will respect our other laws if
they prove inconvenient? The answer is that they won't
and they don't!
COSTS FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS
There are over 20,000,000 undocumented illegal aliens in
the United States and more enter every day. (Even though
the Census Bureau estimates a 10-12 million illegal
alien population, it is commonly known that many aliens
avoid the census count. A more reliable estimate,
provided by
Bear Stearns, estimates nearly 20 million illegal
aliens in the U.S. as of 2005. Congressman Tom
Tancredo, Chairman of the
Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, estimates
18 million illegal aliens.) The INS does not have the
staff necessary to track them or deport them. In some
parts of the county they make up as much as 34% of the
population. In some prison systems as many as 28% of the
prisoners are immigrants, causing tremendous taxpayer
expense. The estimated annual costs of illegal
immigration to U.S. taxpayers are approximately:
- Education-$22.5 billion
- Bi-lingual Education - $3.3 billion
- AFDC (for legal and illegal immigrant's
offspring - $2.4 billion
- S.S.I. - $2.9 billion
- Social Security - $24.8 billion
- Housing Assistance - $2.6 billion
- Criminal Justice - $2.6 billion
- Jobs Lost by Americans - $10.8 billion
- Other Programs - $51.4 billion
- Food Stamps-$7 billion
- Health Care-$1.4 billion
The first study of the net cost of immigration to
American taxpayers in 1997 conducted by Dr. Donald
Huddle, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rice
University, found that:
The nearly 26 million legal and illegal immigrants
settling in the United States since 1970 cost taxpayers
a net $69 billion in 1997 alone, in excess of taxes
those immigrants paid. This represents a cost of $260 in
additional taxes paid by each U.S. resident or $1,030 in
additional taxes paid by each family of four. This cost
is a substantial increase over the net immigration costs
of $65 billion ins 1996, $51 billion ins 1994, $44
billion in 1993, and $43 billion in 1992.
Over 62% of the net national cost of immigration in
1996, $40.6 billion, was attributable to legal and
legalized (amnesty) immigrants. Illegal immigration
generates about 38%, $24 billion of the total net cost.
Legal immigration levels are over one million per year,
and rising.
During 1996, approximately 2.3 million predominantly
low-skill American workers were displaced from their
jobs due to the continued heavy influx of immigrant
workers since 1970. Taxpayers paid more than $15.2
billion in public assistance for those displaced workers
in 1996, including Medicaid, Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC), unemployment compensation,
and food stamps.
A net deficit of $8.5 billion dollars to the Social
Security system in 1996 is attributable to the economic
impact of the foreign-born population. Continued mass
immigration threatens the solvency of the Social
Security system.
Other key facts regarding immigration are:
1.) If current immigration trends continue, the current
U.S. population of 274 million will nearly double to
over 500,000,000 by 2050. (The U.S. was 135 million at
the end of WWII.)
2.) Harvard Professor George Borjas demonstrated that
mass immigration costs American workers $133 billion per
year in wage depression and job loss.
3.) The prestigious National Research Council found at
the state and local levels (which bear most of the
burden for K-12 education) the net fiscal burden of the
average immigrant-headed household (i.e., after
subtracting state and local taxes the household paid)
was:
$1,484 per immigrant-headed household in New Jersey (in
the 1989-1990 fiscal year); and $3,463 in California (in
1994-1995)(p. 276-277)
Why should we continue to allow our own working poor,
homeless, and unemployed to continue to suffer from the
job loss, wage depression, and other burdens imposed by
mass immigration?
Net cumulative costs for the 1998-2007 decade are
projected to reach $932 billion, an average of $93.2
billion per year, even with recent changes in welfare
and immigration policies and a prosperous economy, if
current mass immigration trends are allowed to continue.
An item that few think about and that is no included
in the above figures is the numbers of stolen vehicles
being smuggled across our southern border. According to
a source at the National Insurance Crime Bureau, over
two BILLION dollars of stolen SUVs, trucks and cars are
lost each year and that 2 billion figure only covers the
value of the vehicles and does NOT include the labor
costs associated with their thefts. Just another way
that Citizens are paying the costs for the refusal by
our elected leaders to secure our borders!
Won't you join us by adding your voice to the
thousands of Tennesseans across the state who are
already seeking to have laws overturned that make it
easier for ILLEGAL immigrants to come here and to stay
here? Even the U.S. Congress and President are
currently contemplating granting another amnesty to many
who have entered our Country ILLEGALLY which effectively
rewards them for breaking our Nation's laws.
Find out what you can do to return our Country to the
responsible immigration policies of past decades by
clicking
here. Future generations of Americans will be glad
you did.
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