It should get people upset. It is the Federal Govt's job to maintain secure borders.
Here is some light reading on the cost factor of the illegal alien tsunami in the US>
(some links are doa and the $billions have also gone up, but you get the idea)
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
(http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
(http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html)
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. (http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html)
4. $12 Billion dollars a y ear is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
(http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html )
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
(http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html )
6. $3 Millio n Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
( transcripts.cnn.com
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
(http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html)
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
(http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html)
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
(http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html)
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
(http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html)
11.During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
(http://tinyurl.com/t9sht)
12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
(http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf)
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