Cost of Illegal Immigration
To the Editor:
Our country is overrun with people from as many as 160 different countries. Until our recent Presidential change, these folks have been imported by NGOs or they crossed our borders illegally. Both ways are being paid for by the legal, hard working taxpayers and legal citizens.
I hear a few people crying about these illegal migrants now being removed. These same people who are in all likelihood benefiting financially from their coming. There is no recognition by them for the great financial burden these migrants cause while here illegally. With no insurance they have caused hundreds of hospitals to go broke and close.
Furthermore, illegals cause apartment and housing shortages. They bleed money from any and all of the social services set up for our own citizens. They rob, steal, murder and sell drugs in every neighborhood that they wind up in, at a much higher rate than legal citizens.
Take these DACAfolks for example. Many have received free housing, free K-12, free college, etc. But very few of them have bothered to try to get their citizenship through the established channels. They (DACA) have used their time here unwisely by not doing so. Should it be such a disservice that those who have not tried for their citizenship, after 10 or more years, to be removed and sent back to their country from whence they came? I think not. I have found no country that will let me and you do as they have here.
They are not filling jobs no legal citizen would do. Legal migrant farm workers have long been granted work permits to come here and work crops. Many legally come here and work in hi tech, but they all go home. By doing so they are allowed to re-enter next year or season to do so again. They also pay their taxes.
They are draining the life blood from our society we have all labored so hard for all these 200+ years. They are also taking our teacher’s time away from our children. They disrupt classes by not knowing the language that we use to instruct our children. We have to pay some one to teach them our language, or find qualified instructors fluent in theirs. All of which triples our costs of education.
It is going to cost us a fortune to remove them, but, it will be far less than the cost to keep them.
Birthright citizenship is only applicable to those legally here. The Constitution does not allow for the breaking of the law to obtain citizenship.
J. Moerbe Bleiblerville