U.S. Pays $5.8 Billion to House Illegal Alien Criminals
"The U.S. federal government spent $5.8 billion over
the past three years to incarcerate criminal aliens – nonresidents who are in the country illegally or legally and convicted of a crime. The report by the General Accounting Office – the investigative arm of Congress – shows the number of criminal aliens in federal prisons increased from about 42,000 at the end of 2001 to about 49,000 at the end of last year," according to WorldNetDaily. "The direct federal costs during the study's time frame were estimated to be $4.2 billion, with federal reimbursements to state and local governments totalling $1.6 billion through the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, or SCAAP. The majority of criminal aliens were identified as citizens of Mexico. "
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If American taxpayers received an annual bill for all the (additional) expenses relating to the welfare, education and crime incurred in dealing solely with illegal immigrants, they would beat down the doors on Capital Hill and demand the president and Congress put an immediate stop to it!
We must fix a severely broken immigration system and we must stop allowing politicians to pander to big business and foreign governments in glutting this country with more cheap labor and cast off criminals.
Again, as Ronald Reagan said: "If you want more of something, subsidize it"......Following the statistics of illegal immigration and how culprits prey on society gaining self-sufficiency at society's expense not only from being imprisoned, but bleeding public revenues stealing benefits meant for lawful residents proves Reagan's point. If the United States cut out any Federal subsidies to unlawful residents, and enforced Federal laws in States in regard to immigration, there is not a job in this country criminal trespassers would want.