Illegal immigrants cost the U.S.
$135 billion a year
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There are 28.7 million people in Texas. Illegal aliens cost Texas 11 BILLION.
Do the math.
That comes out of our paychecks.
I did the math, and that works out to about $11,250 per person that is here as an undocumented person that is also not paying taxes. So the guy picking tomatoes is getting an added bonus of $11, 250 to his yearly salary of $25,000 (assuming he receives minimum wage of $25,000/yr at $12/hr (fantasy land)).
I bet he would really love to find out where he could collect his added bonus you all paid out!!
System needs an overhaul
I betcha deporting every mother's child of 'em would cost less than a hundredth of that.
What are we waiting for??
those are present and future democrat voters.
Another GREAT reason to DRIVE THEM OUT NOW!!
currently though, they are called "people," or "human beings."
And logic dictates that you nor anyone else is actually supporting anyone other than your own families as they are theirs. Your Government taxes those that are employed or making profits, and from there the Government decides what to do with All the Peoples' money.
So unless you yourselves are taking money directly out of your pockets and feeding needy people/families that are here while undocumented, then yes it is costing you money otherwise it is not.
You really think that if the Government stopped all social services and truly began saving money by not buying $5000 toilet bowls for the Pentagon, or losing Billions of actual dollars in some fake foreign war (think Iraq) that you would actually get money back in pockets? They would just find somewhere else to spend it on themselves.
And btw, did you see your President Trump suckle up to everyones' favorite Russian President Putin? Or was that fake news too?
Yes @mepatriot Deport them all because well that's logical.
The market would take care of it. If the produce wasn't picked by illegals, the labor rates would rise to wherever the market would bring in suitable LEGAL workers.
Thanks for supporting crime....(not.)
@mepatriot
If supporting people who work to support their loved ones is considered a crime then what do you consider believing and supporting american mulit-national conglomerates than economically destroy other countries usually leaving behind an environmental disaster on top of it all?
Trump is playing everybody for fools, yapping his lips telling everyone who will listen what they want to hear while following his own agenda for personal gain.
And @dmud , the quote and article is referring to the undocumented people that work for the farmers of that association, which is about 1 Million Undocumented Farm workers. I bet the other LEGAL 1 Million or so farm workers has half of that under some sort of permitted legal employment status, but they too are vulnerable to losing those rights to work.
That is just one association in one industry, so how many more farmers and other industries are currently employing, KEY WORD HERE, employing these other undocumented workers. Or do you believe the other 10 Million or so undocumented are they just sitting around all collecting that $11250 you all paid out of your pockets?
"If supporting people who work to support their loved ones is considered a crime then what do you consider believing and supporting american mulit-national conglomerates than economically destroy other countries usually leaving behind an environmental disaster on top of it all?"
One evil does not preclude the other action from also being evil. i.e. "two wrongs don't make a right." I support the rule of law IN ALL CASES.
You easily want to forget past and even present transgressions that have led to the migration crisis of today, much of it self-inflicted. The rule of law is not always correct and is not always the perfect path, especially when it comes to feeding your family.
Pray that you never find yourself in a dire situation where the "LAW" keeps you from feeding your family, for that day your moral compass will be tested for it's true direction.
Yes, the horrors of Communism and ignorance--by far the greatest elements of poverty in impoverished nations--is immense and must be opposed.
Open borders and global redistribution of wealth by force (or by criminal action) is no part of the answer, however.
You can't blame imperialism on communism, especially american imperialism. The greed for the almighty dollar from both past and present generations of American imperialism has exacerbated the economic woes of many countries the world over but none more so than in its own hemisphere, creating the need for families to traverse hundreds if not sometimes thousands of miles in order to have a better quality of life, a quality of life which you so cherish as to not wish to share it with those who's lives you and your ancestors have irrevocably changed forever. You admonish and judge those attempting to feed themselves and their loved ones under near slave labor conditions, and your simple answer is, "the markets will adjust in price for that." Coldly, callously and inhumanely without a forethought as to how these sad ever poor ever hardworking lives came to be.
Of course the easy answer to pass the buck, it is not my or my country's problem when for the most past it has been you and your country's support of imperialism directly and indirectly.
Think about the Walton family, billionaires over and over, and how poorly they treat the American worker, and now just imagine what they do to their employees in 3rd world countries, or rather what they don't do for non-american employees.
Oddly enough criminal actions have worked wonders for the Clinton's and the Trump's and many of the rich elite.
I don't think the roughly 1 million migrant workers here legally on temporary visas are being discussed here. It's the > 11,000,000 illegals that are the subject of the post.
People here in Ecuador just want Trump to open up all the borders and let them in by the millions. I tell them that they need to go to the US by immigration not by crossing over the border Illegally.
what would they think about Texans annexing Equador?
They would not like that at all and would think that is wrong. It is all because of CNN they are feeding them so many lies. CNN is the only news outlet in Ecuador that is in Spanish.
odd that they should think it ok to invade my country but not the other way around. Has CNN brainwashed them so much that they can no longer think for themselves?
CNN has a big impact on the people done here. I think that it has got better since Mike Pence visited Ecuador A few weeks ago, but there are still people who do not like Trump and Mike Pence.
Can't Texas work on building their own wall instead of waiting round for The President? With 11 bill they're having to pay out, then they might as well do something.
sounds like a good plan.
The fact that we have homeless vets and are spending this much on illegals makes me sick.
I appears that the world is falling apart
I have seven families living in one house up the street. The are always there, and party for a weekend every month, when the gov checks come in.
The neighbor kid to them says that the have more families living "There", because the kids have several names etc, and have to go downtown as different "families"for check-ins for the ones that are back in Mexico.
There is ONE Legal family there! We are getting SUCH a deal...NOT!
>:(