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# Doing the math on immigration
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/doing-the-math-on-immigration-editor/
- Published: 2007-07-16T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:18:16.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Cheryl Erb Santa Monica*

Some interesting illegal statistics: I hope these 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read by the majority of Americans. Then they will have something to discuss with their U.S. Congress members. 1\. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. (http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServe...ecenters7fd 8) 2\. $2.2 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 year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP.../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/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html) 6\. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.h tml) 7\. 30 percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...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/TRANSCRIP...01/ldt.01.html) 10\. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's 2 1/2 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/TRANSCRIP...12/ldt.01.html) 11\. During the year of 2005 there were 4-10 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, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report: (http://tinyurl.com/t9sht) 12\. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportati $46 billion annually over a five year period." (http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.o...eportation.pdf) 13\. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. 14\. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in The United States". (http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml) So using the LOWEST estimates, the annual cost OF ILLEGAL ALIENS is $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR! If deporting them costs between $206 and $230 BIL- LION DOLLARS, Hey get rid of em', we'll be ahead after the first year!!!

Some of these stats are too dumb NOT to do something about this ever-growing problem. I agree that we’d be ahead after the first year.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 16, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)