Wasn't it like a billion dollars in tax payer money a year? How can anyone defend that lol
I've been looking for more recent primary source material but here is an article (series of three) from 2005. During that year, Los Angeles County, alone, paid 340 million dollars toward the uninsured. Obviously there were non illegals who were uninsured so the numbers are not exact but the county also reported that there were 2 million illegal aliens (9 years ago..) within said county during that year. Also the Department of Health reported a 1.2 billion dollar deficit based on "caring for illegals" during the same year.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/03...al-immigrants/
My prior link was from Fox and now here is one from one of the most liberal news agencies in the country (2009):
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/he...anted=all&_r=0
Here is a more moderate news agency which, typically, acts as a financial organization and simply reports the numbers. It coincides with Convo's assertion and the numbers (as of 2013) according to the National Research Council claim "the migration of these individuals into the United States costs American taxpayers $346 billion annually".
http://www.moneynews.com/NealAsbury/.../09/id/503579/
If you consider the above healthcare costs and add with it the cost of education (ie: the addition of classes nationwide called "English as a second language", etc) that has drastically changed over the past decade or so we're looking at a major loss per year on the care of them. If we look at this from a simple business perspective (ie: Gain vs Loss - Risk vs Reward) it is extremely obvious that the country is losing much more than it is gaining in these instances.
I am a Kaiser member out here in CA and here is a report directly from them last year:
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stor...ency-care.aspx
Apparently some hospitals are starting to take matters into their own hands, deporting the illegal, and bypassing the justice system all together. This is the first time I have heard of anything like this before but I found it to be an interesting read:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3139272.html
This article was posted today and is legally accurate while also coinciding with the recent request to Congress for 3.7 Billion dollars which, apparently, some think is magically generated money. To the lifelong tax and societal burden this will be a non issue and they will get behind it to keep the status-quo and continue their free lunch & life programs but for the established tax payer, college students who will soon be looking for employment and, most of all, those who are just starting their life and attempting to establish themselves, this will be difficult to downright devastating in some cases:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/11...al-immigrants/
To be fair and offset the above article, here is an article from CNN making claim that this isn't a border surge or politically motivated issue at all but rather a "humanitarian issue". This article fails to mention the amount of monies that the states send to these countries each year and I also have to logically question some aspects of this issue at large but in this specific case I will need to do more research before I can give a definitive reasoning.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/03/opinio...tml?hpt=ju_mid
This article was released today and while not a primary source I found it to be an interesting read in terms of the "moral crisis" of the issue and the extreme divisions currently in the states between the vast majority and the special interest groups:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...r-davis-hanson
Finally, this short article is absolutely loaded with sources and citations and I found it to be an interesting read about the cost, loss, and consequences of illegal aliens. Also consider another issue to come from this and that is job loss. If 60 California hospitals closed due to this from 1993 to 2003, how many people lost their jobs as yet another consequence? Obviously the medical staff would be able to find work elsewhere (speculation) but hospitals don't just have medical staffs and this also doesn't add the impact it has on the lives of the American citizens who lose work, must find new work, must move, and what about the unseen intangibles that rise up for people? Point being, these issues are directly impacting the American people and regardless of your political stance it should be an obvious and non debatable fact:
http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf