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Does illegal immigration drain the state's budget?
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) – It was the nation’s largest single site raid on undocumented workers.
And when nearly 600 workers were rounded up at Howard Industries in Laurel, it was clear that illegal immigration is no longer just an issue for border states.
"Really, we’re people looking for opportunity," said Roberto, an unauthorized immigrant who works at a Jackson construction site.
But others say, unauthorized workers are a drain on the state’s budget.
In 2006, then state-auditor Phil Bryant issued a report analyzing the costs and population trends of the state’s unauthorized immigrants, estimated to number between 35,000 and 50,000.
Now Lt. Governor, the Republican official has a strong stance on the issue.
"There’s no excuses for it. You cannot violate the law," said Bryant.
The most recent report of its kind, its most significant finding is Mississippi’s "inability to accurately quantify the costs of illegal immigrants" because most agencies don’t record citizenship status.
Still, the report estimates undocumented immigrants cost the Magnolia state $69 million a year in health care, education, public safety, and remittance losses, but contribute $44 million a year through sales and income tax.
That’s an estimated net cost of $25 million each year.
And although schools and hospitals can’t ask for citizenship status, a spokesperson for the University of Mississippi Medical Center tell WLBT that nearly 1300 uninsured patients didn’t have an ID, social security card, or visa in the fiscal year 2008, costing UMC $1.2 million dollars.
Still, that accounts for less than 5% of all patients treated.
"I think that illegal immigrants- people who are not here legally- do pose a cost that is greater than any benefit having them here may have," said Sam Atkinson, director of the performance audit division of the state’s auditor’s office.
But Bill Chandler, of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, claims, for every migrant worker in the U.S., one and a half more jobs are created for Americans.
"Undocumented workers or immigrants of any kind are not the reason our economy is bad," said Chandler. "We’re talking about banks on Wall Street that have created the unemployment situation."
And then there’s the controversy over whether unauthorized immigrants should be counted in the census.
"Here’s the trouble: redistricting," said Bryant. "If for example, we’re determining who gets another congressman, Mississippi lost a congressman. So if we’re saying Arizona or California is going to get a new congressman based on illegal immigrants, that’s wrong." said Bryant.
We are not here to take away any jobs or to invade their cities or countries, that we are here to live together, to work for a better country," said Velez.http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=1 1522743
Yes.
The feds don’t pay for the children of illegals to get educated. You and I do at way over $15,000 per kid per year.
The feds don’t reimburse the hospitals for the cost of care for illegals because we don’t know who is illegal – nobody asks.
The feds don’t pay for the state to incarcerate all of the illegals who commit crimes other then immigration ones. And we really don’t know how many are illegal anyway because Maricopa county is the only one really investigating immigration status. (By the way Joe Aripio states that about 25% of those arrested are illegals)
The feds pay some of the costs, but not all, in the states where social services is forbidden from asking immigration status. So illegals get the full range of food stamps, housing (think Obamas aunt), medical, etc.
Here in WA the illegals get all welfare plus in-state college tuition (we pay for it) and free neonatal care (we pay for it).
youarewrongbobisright | Nov 18, 2009
Who pays for their health care when they cannot afford it?
Who pays for the education, when they do not contribute
Who pays for teh accident, as they drive uninsured?
One can posit that they take advantage of services without paying into it
Stephen K | Nov 18, 2009
