States and municipalities are under financial strains. The cost associated with illegal aliens has run its course. Texas has a budget short fall of $18 billion. The cost to house and provide medical care to prisoners who are from foreign countries amounts to $250 million.
Jerry McGinty, the Texas Department of Corrections' chief financial officer, said state prisons held 11,766 offenders who are foreign citizens in July. He said it costs the state about $171 million per year to hold them, although the federal government reimburses about 10 percent of that total.
Rick Allgeyer, director of research for the Health and Human Services Commission, said illegal immigrant health care - mostly emergency hospital care - cost the state nearly $100 million last year.
The cost of educating illegals is staggering. The following stats are from the Pew Hispanic Research study:
The U.S. Census Bureau just released 2008 figures showing the national average total per-pupil funding from all revenue sources was $12,028. Although estimates of the number of school-age children of illegal immigrants don’t separate those attending public vs. private schools, it’s reasonable to assume that nearly all attend public schools since most come from lower-income families. Therefore, if one multiplies $12,028 by the roughly 3.7 million students with illegal-immigrant parents, then one gets a national total funding cost of $44.5 billion.
The Supreme Court is responsible for the outrageous cost of educating illegals.
In 1982, the Supreme Court rules in Plyler v. Doe , 457 U.S. 202 (1982), that public schools were prohibited from denying immigrant students access to a public education. The Court stated that undocumented children have the same right to a free public education as U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Undocumented immigrant students are obligated, as are all other students, to attend school until they reach the age mandated by state law.
With this one ruling, a bunch of unelected judges who don't know the limitations of their power have cost the citizens of this country dearly; and have rendered citizenship almost meaningless.
The Obama Administration will not allow the states to enforce federal immigration laws, yet they sit idly by and watch them go bankrupt. The federal mandates and interference in local issues has ran its course and now the states can no longer turn a blind eye to the heavy handedness of federal politicians, bureaucrats and judges.
Source: http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/PlylerVDoeSummary.html
http://www.kfdm.com/news/texas-39086-million-care.html
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/educating-illegal-immigrants-is-594092.html
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