There's a huge cost that comes with illegal immigration.
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Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.
Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.
You look at the Pew Hispanic Center study on the number of illegal aliens in America and the number of jobs they have, that's 7.4 million, illegal aliens in America. A quick way to create jobs in America is to remove those illegal aliens from our community. That frees up 7.4 million jobs that American can seek.
The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.
Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.
It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can't pay an American to pick blueberries.
If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!