California's nearly 3 million illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $9 billion each year!

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"California's nearly 3 million illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $9 billion each year, according to a new report released last week by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based group that promotes stricter immigration policies.

Educating the children of illegal immigrants is the largest cost, estimated at $7.7 billion each year, according to the report. Medical care for illegal immigrants and incarceration of those who have committed crimes are the next two largest expenses measured in the study, the author said.

Pro-immigrant groups and Latino researchers dispute the federation's findings, calling them biased and incomplete.

Jack Martin, who wrote the report, said Thursday that the $9 billion figure does not include other expenses that are difficult to measure, such as special English instruction, school lunch programs, and welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal immigrant workers"

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Comments: Everywhere i go in LA i see young immigrant/anchor Latinas, or less likely other ethnic immigrant mom's, strolling down sidewalks pushing toddler(s)in carriages. The moms' may be illegal or US-born citizen offspring of illegals. They are usually low education/low skilled/unskilled, and likely collecting free health/welfare and other handouts per each kid they are strolling. I see $1000/2000 per month per kid payed for by the bankrupt CA treasury. This has been very common all over LA County last 30 years- the high fertility rates of immigrant Latinas, who often give birth in their teens, when they are most unskilled and in need of county aid. It was actually an epidemic in the poorer impoverished parts of LA such as Compton and SE LA County back in the 80's and 90's.

What this leads to is a continuing population explosion among the recent immigrant Hispanic population in LA, and this contributes to a burgeoning welfare problem for LA county, which has 3 million on the direct welfare rolls. This info has usually been suppressed by the local and regional LA politicians as they are beholden to the Hispanic voting block to stay in power, and the truth will never come out(except in a few scholarly studies by organizations such as FAIR) that LA County alone charges CA/Fed taxpayers three billion plus per year on health, welfare payouts, and county direct relief to illegals and their anchor spawn, and this does not include indirect education costs for illegals.

Even if by some miracle US/CA halted anymore illegal immigration today, just the high domestic birthrates of illegals/green carders/anchors already here will continue to tilt demographics more and more toward Hispanics, who are well over 1/3rd of all CA residents. This has had/will have ominous political implications for CA politics and policy now and well into the future, a topic for another day.