Just the Facts

On illegal immigration here you go:

From the Los Angeles Times:
40 percent of all workers are working for cash and not paying taxes.

75 percent of people on L.A.'s most-wanted list are illegal aliens.

In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) are for illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

Over two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by the taxpayers.

Nearly 25 percent of all inmates in California detention centers are here illegally.

The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal from south of the border.

Nearly 60 percent of all occupants of HUD properties in California are illegal.

Less than 2 percent of illegals are picking crops but 29 percent are on welfare.

It cost Los Angeles $276 million in welfare costs for 100,000 children of illegal aliens.

Sixty percent of the county's uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens, more than half are illegal.

2 million undocumented aliens in Los Angeles County.

In 2004, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the uninsured – roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer – while illegal aliens receive medical treatment for free.

More from LA Times:

29 percent of inmates in the federal prisons are illegal aliens.

The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a negative.

More Americans have died as a result of illegal immigration than from the battle in Iraq. Illegal aliens in the United States are more than fourteen times as lethal as a full scale armed conflict.

According to statistics compiled by US Congressman Steve King (R-5th CD Iowa),

13 Americans are killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals
12 U.S. citizens die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day in crimes.

At the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in U.S. correctional facilities. COST: $6.8 Billion a year.

Based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data,

Illegals are responsible for 309,050 accidents, 2,132 deaths, 139,400 injuries, and a cost of $11.5 billion. COST: $11.5 Billion a year.

There are an estimated 5.1 million ESL students in the USA: 90% of the ESL students are children of illegal aliens, COST: $34.5 Billion a year.

Harvard Professor George Borjas:

Illegal aliens displaced American workers at a cost in excess of $133 billion dollars in 2005.

The Wall Street investment firm Bear Stearns

We are losing $35 billion a year in income tax collections from jobs that are now off the books.

Census Bureau:

Households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they paid in taxes in 2002.

The study also finds that if illegal aliens were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow by nearly $29 billion.

Washington Post:

The Senates embattled immigration bill would raise government spending by as much as $126 billion over the next decade.

In the 40 years prior to 2002, there were only 900 total cases of leprosy in the US. In the following three years there have been 9,000 cases. TB is epidemic in many illegal alien communities and a new Multiple-Drug-Resistant (MDR) TB is spreading. Each person infected with TB will infect 10 others. Treating a single case of MDR TB costs between $250,000 and $1,200,000 per person.

Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute in Atlanta, Georgia.

Between 1991 - 1995, the number of illegal aliens sentenced in federal courts increased by 167 percent, compared with 13 percent for citizens. There are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States.

Since 1999 there have been nearly one million victims of rape, child molestation, sexual homicides, and rape and molestation of handicapped children by illegal immigrants here in the U.S.

The Heritage Foundation has also produced a fabulous piece: Rewarding Illegal Aliens it can be found here:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1468.cfm