laws leads directly to the deaths of American citizens. Here is a poignant example. In 2010, Carlos Montano, an illegal immigrant, killed a 66-year-old nun, Sister Denise Mosier, and critically injured two others when Montano was driving drunk in a Virginia suburb. Incredibly, Carlos Montano had been arrested not once but twice before on drunk-driving charges and had other traffic-related arrests. But when
Montano got handed off to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation, the Department of Homeland Security inexplicably let Montano walk. âWe handed him over to the feds assuming he would be deported,â said Corey Steward, chairman of the Prince William Countyâs Board of Supervisors. âBut instead federal authorities released him back into the neighborhood and he killed a nun. . . . Blood is on the hands of Congress for not properly funding immigration enforcement.â 10
The needless death of Sister Denise Mosier is hardly an isolated case. There are countless stories of driving fatalities and serious injuries by people who should not have been on American roads in the first place. When liberals like Barack Obama hear tragic stories like that of Sister Mosier, they come back with, âYes, and thatâs precisely why we should grant âundocumented workersâââthatâs illegals to you and meââdriverâs licenses and teach them the rules of our roads!â Itâs a level of cluelessness that borders on delusion.
Look, my wife is an immigrantâa legal immigrant. Did she have to jump through legal hoops? Of course. Did she complain about it? No, she didnât. She is grateful for the chance to live in America. So she complied with the laws of the land. She worked hard to become a U.S. citizenâand the U.S. got a good one.
Illegals Are Breaking Our Bank
In purely economic terms, however, one of illegal immigrationâs biggest costs to taxpayers involves the monies paid to educate the children of illegal aliens. Illegal immigrant children often require special classes and language specialists, and take time and resources away from our own
students. On this point I strongly disagree with Governor Rick Perry. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reports that U.S. taxpayers shell out $52 billion annually to educate illegal aliens. Liberals like to say that illegal aliens pay taxes too in the form of sales taxes and the fees and taxes that get folded into the costs of things like gasoline. But this argument failsâbig time. According to FAIR, on average, less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegals are regained through taxes paid by illegal aliens. 11
The fact is when it comes to taxpayer-provided social services and welfare, illegal aliens have elbowed their way to the front of the line. In 2011, the Houston Chronicle reported that 70 percent of the illegal immigrant families living in Texas received welfare assistance. Thatâs compared to the already too high 39 percent of native-born Americans who receive welfare. 12 Thatâs insane. People who broke into the country use our social safety net with greater regularity than our own citizens! How can we ever expect to get a handle on the illegal immigration crisis when we incentivize and reward it with free welfare checks and health care?
âWe can no longer afford to be HMO to the world,â says Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich. He says that the total cost to taxpayers for illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County is $1.6 billion, ânot including the hundreds of millions of dollars for education.â 13
The root cause of all the welfare payments to illegal aliens is the so-called âanchor babyâ phenomenon, which is when illegal immigrant mothers have a baby on American soil. The child automatically becomes an American citizen, though this was never the intention of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states,
Montano got handed off to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation, the Department of Homeland Security inexplicably let Montano walk. âWe handed him over to the feds assuming he would be deported,â said Corey Steward, chairman of the Prince William Countyâs Board of Supervisors. âBut instead federal authorities released him back into the neighborhood and he killed a nun. . . . Blood is on the hands of Congress for not properly funding immigration enforcement.â 10
The needless death of Sister Denise Mosier is hardly an isolated case. There are countless stories of driving fatalities and serious injuries by people who should not have been on American roads in the first place. When liberals like Barack Obama hear tragic stories like that of Sister Mosier, they come back with, âYes, and thatâs precisely why we should grant âundocumented workersâââthatâs illegals to you and meââdriverâs licenses and teach them the rules of our roads!â Itâs a level of cluelessness that borders on delusion.
Look, my wife is an immigrantâa legal immigrant. Did she have to jump through legal hoops? Of course. Did she complain about it? No, she didnât. She is grateful for the chance to live in America. So she complied with the laws of the land. She worked hard to become a U.S. citizenâand the U.S. got a good one.
Illegals Are Breaking Our Bank
In purely economic terms, however, one of illegal immigrationâs biggest costs to taxpayers involves the monies paid to educate the children of illegal aliens. Illegal immigrant children often require special classes and language specialists, and take time and resources away from our own
students. On this point I strongly disagree with Governor Rick Perry. The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reports that U.S. taxpayers shell out $52 billion annually to educate illegal aliens. Liberals like to say that illegal aliens pay taxes too in the form of sales taxes and the fees and taxes that get folded into the costs of things like gasoline. But this argument failsâbig time. According to FAIR, on average, less than 5 percent of the public costs associated with illegals are regained through taxes paid by illegal aliens. 11
The fact is when it comes to taxpayer-provided social services and welfare, illegal aliens have elbowed their way to the front of the line. In 2011, the Houston Chronicle reported that 70 percent of the illegal immigrant families living in Texas received welfare assistance. Thatâs compared to the already too high 39 percent of native-born Americans who receive welfare. 12 Thatâs insane. People who broke into the country use our social safety net with greater regularity than our own citizens! How can we ever expect to get a handle on the illegal immigration crisis when we incentivize and reward it with free welfare checks and health care?
âWe can no longer afford to be HMO to the world,â says Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich. He says that the total cost to taxpayers for illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County is $1.6 billion, ânot including the hundreds of millions of dollars for education.â 13
The root cause of all the welfare payments to illegal aliens is the so-called âanchor babyâ phenomenon, which is when illegal immigrant mothers have a baby on American soil. The child automatically becomes an American citizen, though this was never the intention of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states,
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