I do not feel I have to prove it to a pinhead from chappyville, but since I know you would not look for yourself, here is just a quick shot.
Based upon the new 2000 Census data, the Migration Policy Institute issued a May 2002 study that estimated Texas's illegal alien population at 1.2 million.
Texas authorities requested compensation from the federal government in FY'99 for the incarceration expenses for about 3,866,720 days of detention for illegal aliens in state and local jails and prisons. The cost of the detention amounted to $152,751,098. Under the federal State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), Texas received $58,941,600 in compensation, leaving $93,809,498 in uncompensated costs to be borne by Texas taxpayers. The SCAAP program began in 1994 and compensates the states and local jurisdictions only for incarceration of "undocumented," i.e. illegal, aliens who are serving time for a felony conviction or at least two misdemeanors.
In FY'00 Texas received $57,262,544 from SCAAP. Payments to the state were lower, and federal assistance was lower overall, so local taxpayers were forced to absorb a larger share of the cost of criminal alien incarceration.
fairus.org
The Bexar County Hospital District in San Antonio, Thomason General Hospital in El Paso and the Dallas County Hospital District continue providing nonemergency services to undocumented immigrants.
yct.org
non emergency:
all of this comes at an enormous expense to Texas taxpayers. The Harris County Hospital District alone doled out $330 million in free medical care to illegal immigrants over the last three years. Even more ominously, the flood of illegal immigrants seeking free health care may crowd out U.S. citizens. Many public hospitals in Texas are already overburdened and some such as Brackenridge Hospital in Austin have begun turning patients away
vdare.com
emergency:
Emergency hospital care for illegal aliens in 2000 was costliest for the counties in California, where the total was $79.6 million. Texas was next at $74 million, followed by Arizona at $30 million and New Mexico at nearly $6 million.
bayarea.com
that is just a quick run thru a few...100s of millions here and there and before you know it, you are talking about some real money. It is not ALL of Texas',(or any border state's) deficit problem, but it sure adds to it. |
