Cost of illegals to California $10.5 billion
Analysis shows burden of native-born residents $1,183 per household
Posted: January 21, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
An analysis of recent census data indicates that the presence of illegal aliens
in California is costing the state's taxpayers more than $10.5 billion per year
for education, medical care and incarceration.
The report, written by the Federation of American Immigration Reform, or FAIR,
states that even if the tax contributions of illegal aliens are subtracted,
state government outlays still amount to nearly $9 billion a year.
FAIR notes that the results of the report take into account only state of
California costs and do not include the cost of illegal aliens born by the
federal government.
The report breaks down the costs of the three main areas of services, education
medial care and incarceration.
Based on estimates of the illegal alien population in California and documented
costs of K-12 schooling, Californians spend approximately $7.7 billion annually
on education for illegal-alien children and for their U.S.-born siblings, says
the report. Nearly 15 percent of the K-12 public school students in California
are children of illegals.
The report shows uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to the
state's illegal alien population amount to about $1.4 billion a year.
The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in California's prisons and jails
amounts to about $1.4 billion a year. That figure does not include related law
enforcement and judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes that
led to their incarceration, the report notes.
FAIR says the total of taxes paid into the system by illegal aliens can be
estimated at about $1.6 billion per year.
States the report's executive summary: "The fiscal costs of illegal immigration
do not end with these three major cost areas. The total costs of illegal
immigration to the state's taxpayers would be considerably higher if other cost
areas such as special English instruction, school feeding programs or welfare
benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers were added
into the equation."
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