tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879846109601593261.post6974762686486424347..comments2024-02-08T06:15:12.164-08:00Comments on California Focus Syndicated Column: PRO-ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT STUDIES WON’T END DEBATECalifornia Focushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04519309712423264033noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879846109601593261.post-86849376678367729622011-06-24T17:21:33.441-07:002011-06-24T17:21:33.441-07:00Nice propaganda in support of illegal immigration,...Nice propaganda in support of illegal immigration, if they contributed so much to the economic of California, why California is Bankrupt?<br />I am Latino and I know what is going on, I question the loyalty of the Latinos, citizens of this United States are they loyal to the USA of Mexico the land that exploited them and make them economic slaves for many year. No one is forcing them to be here, if they love mexico they should go to Mexico; and if they are illegal here in our country, sorry but we have laws and they should respect our sovereignty, Mexico immigration laws is zero tolerance to illegal immigration and if they arrest you for violatio of their laws you go to jail, filthy jails, no uniform,no beds, no food, ect. the ACLU should go to Mexico to defend the Illegal aliens from central America.Tea Party Of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06460269701944252486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879846109601593261.post-70986682445381322522011-06-24T17:08:55.650-07:002011-06-24T17:08:55.650-07:00Nice propaganda in support of illegal immigration,...Nice propaganda in support of illegal immigration, If they contributed so much to the State of California, hwy California is Bankrupt?Tea Party Of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06460269701944252486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879846109601593261.post-81306116698087963982010-05-15T11:49:05.227-07:002010-05-15T11:49:05.227-07:00I believe the numbers are far short, and the total...I believe the numbers are far short, and the total cost to all states and the Federal Government is in excess of $300 Billion dollars. That equates to approsimately $1,000 for every man, woman and child in this country --EVERY YEAR, not one as described in bailouts etc. <br /><br />The solution is to collect this $1,000 per person in the form of an ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TAX, as a sales tax on everything purchased in America. Then the proceeds would be sent to the states based on their pro-rata share of ilegals. How long would it take America to wakeup and see that this has to stop?? Not long!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879846109601593261.post-81713134387447724462010-04-13T19:59:16.842-07:002010-04-13T19:59:16.842-07:00I appreciate your references to some of the schola...I appreciate your references to some of the scholarly research on this divisive subject. We all have our biases, but some of us are interested in looking at the evidence and willing to change our preconceived notions when they are inconsistent with the evidence. <br /><br />After a debate on the topic among family members last summer I tried to determine what if anything illegal aliens might be costing the rest of us taxpayers. I found that estimates of the net cost/benefit of illegal aliens to the national budget and gross national product vary widely. <br />http://immigration.procon.org/viewanswers.asp?questionID=000789<br />I did not found any studies that consider every cost and every benefit. I did find one that did consider most if not all costs, and their payments by illegal aliens to the national government, but not the benefits to US businesses and the resulting increased taxes paid by those businesses. (Anecdotal conversations with farmers and reports in the media indicate that farmers commonly choose to plant less profitable crops rather than risk not being able to get labor to harvest more profitable crops.) That paper (I can't find it right now) suggests that because of the low earning capacity of immigrants, government agencies spend $300 more on each illegal immigrant than illegal immigrants pay government agencies. I found a March 2002 estimate that there were then 9.2 million illegal immigrants in the U S. <br />http://www.urban.org/Publications/1000587.html<br />If we accept the $300/immigrant cost and the 9.2 million immigrants number we get a total cost of $2.76 billion. <br /><br />In 2003 there were 130,728,360 individual income tax returns filed. <br />http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=380531<br />Using these numbers we get a cost of $21 per taxpayer. To put this $21 cost into perspective, the savings and loan bailout of the 1980s cost each taxpayer about $1000. The recent bank bailout is expected to cost each taxpayer about $10,000, and the Iraq war is expected to cost each taxpayer about $40,000. <br /><br />On the other hand, several economists have proposed that admitting 1.6 million middle aged, skilled immigrants <br />each year could fix the difficulty funding social security and medicare. <br />http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/262120<br /><br />Although the jury is still out, it appears to me that illegal aliens neither cost nor benefit us greatly. There are other issues that are far more costly. I have known, worked and played with many illegal aliens from many countries, and found almost all of them to be fine, hard working, trustworthy people. I think they enrich our culture, and if they cost me a few dollars a year I am happy to pay that for the pleasure of their company.El Remarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869340658202078640noreply@blogger.com