Immigrant Flood Is Swamping America

By Barbara McEwan - Monday, September 05, 2005 - Roanoke Times

Analysis of Census Bureau figures like that done by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) verifies the costs of illegals to American taxpayers. Nearly two-thirds of illegals lack a high school diploma, resulting in low incomes and tax payments. As a result, illegal alien households are estimated to cost $2,700 a year more per household in services than they pay in taxes (asuming they are not underground and paying nothing). This totaled a burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in 2002.

The costs to each individual hosehold is extremely high. So why do we put up with it? One reason is that the Democrats have made it a certainty that if you complain you will be labeled a racist. Need an example? The federal government did not respond as quickly as the Mayor of New Orleans thought was acceptable and within 3 hours two Senators, Jesse Jackson, and Robert Kennedy's son had gone on national TV and said it was due to racism.

The racist charge is the knee jerk reaction whenever anyone says or does, or even doesn't do, what democrats want, or don't want. What I don't understand is why blacks support people who are in fact destroying their income potential. That is what democrats are doing. Democrat support for illegal immigration costs blacks their jobs. If you say that though, Jesse Jackson will claim you are a racist. How bizarre is that?

The most important quote in the article? "Bear Stearns concludes that the average annual earnings of American workers have been reduced by 4 percent to 6 percent. Barron's financial publication concurs."

Could you use a 6 percent raise?