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Illegal Immigration cost Margate households $678 a year each
• Tellling report from Federation for American Immigration Reform
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Thursday,
July 8, 2010
The Florida Immigrant Coalition and the ACLU of Florida have publicly labeled Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigration as anti-American and anti-immigrant. American media has taken to ‘bleeding heart liberalism’ in reporting on new Arizona laws and the federal government says it doesn’t have the manpower or systems in place to detain or deport America’s estimated 13 million illegal immigrants.
So then, who is going to foot the bill for the $113 billion that illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers every year?
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An eye-opening report entitled, The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers, released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) on July 6, is a comprehensive analysis of how much illegal immigration costs federal, state and local taxpayers in the U.S. every year.
In light of controversy surrounding Arizona’s illegal immigration tactics, this “first of its kind” 100-page report shines sensible light on the topic from a purely financial perspective, with cost estimates based on extensive analysis of federal, state and local spending data.
According to the report, Arizona shoulders $2.6 billion in illegal immigration costs annually, which is 31 percent less than the $3.8 billion in illegal immigration costs shouldered by Floridians – a number that has doubled since 2005, states the report.
Key Findings for Floridians
• Floridians pay $3.4 billion a year to educate illegal immigrant children and the U.S. born children of illegal immigrants.
• Floridians pay $290 million a year on unreimbursed health care for illegal aliens.
• Floridians pay $90 million a year to incarcerate criminal illegal aliens.
• Naturalized households in Florida each pay roughly $678 a year to support illegal immigrants.
The study also estimates Florida's illegal population to be 950,000, which is 7.3 percent of the nation's total illegal alien population. Florida has the fourth highest concentration of illegal aliens behind California, Texas and New York.
A 2009 Zogby Poll found that 71.3 percent of Florida voters believe that illegal immigration has a negative impact on the state's reputation and 83.5 percent believe that illegal immigration negatively impacts the state budget.
The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers examines dozens of government programs that are available to illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children, both legally and fraudulently. The report details the impact of illegal immigration on education, health care, law enforcement and justice, public assistance and other government programs. Read full report.
Findings at the National Level
• The roughly $13 billion a year in taxes paid by illegal aliens results in a net cost to U.S. taxpayers of approximately $100 billion (The study notes that government at all levels would likely have realized significantly greater revenues if jobs held by illegal aliens had been filled by legal U.S. residents instead).
• The $113 billion in outlays for services and benefits to illegal aliens and their families represents a cost of about $1,117 a year per American household. Because the burdens of illegal immigration are not evenly distributed, the costs are much higher in states with large illegal alien populations, such as Florida.
• Education for the children of illegal aliens represents the single largest public expenditure at an annual cost of $52 billion. Nearly all of that cost is absorbed by state and city governments, such as Margate.
• Most illegal aliens do not pay income taxes. Among those who do, much of the revenues collected are refunded to the illegal aliens when they file tax returns. Many are also claiming tax credits resulting in payments from the U.S. Treasury.
With many state and local budgets in deficit this year, President of FAIR, Dan Stein, says policymakers at all levels of government have an obligation to look for ways to reduce the fiscal burden of illegal migration to the U.S.
California, facing a budget deficit of $14.4 billion in 2010-2011, he says, is hit with an estimated $21.8 billion in annual expenditures on illegal aliens. New York’s $6.8 billion deficit is smaller than its $9.5 billion in yearly illegal immigration costs.
The report examines the likely consequences if illegal immigrants were granted amnesty similar to the one granted in 1986, which was passed to control and deter illegal immigration to the U.S., states the Homeland Security website.
The report notes that while tax collections from illegal immigrants would likely increase only marginally if given amnesty, their new legal status would make them eligible for receiving Social Security retirement benefits. This in effect would jeopardize the future of an already shaky system by doling out funds to people who didn’t put in.
Amnesty for illegal immigrants would exacerbate an already enormous fiscal burden, said Stein, as large populations of illegal aliens would simultaneously become eligible for numerous social assistance programs - for which they now do not qualify.
Granting amnesty to illegal aliens, as President Obama and others propose, Stein said, would dramatically increase public costs as newly-legalized aliens become eligible for all means-based government programs.
“The report provides a definitive response to the question of whether illegal aliens are a net benefit or a net drain on government coffers," said Stein. “Our nation’s failure to control illegal immigration is one of the largest preventable burdens borne by American taxpayers.”
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