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The High Cost of Illegal Immigration One Way or Another, We all Pay  September 28, 2007 -- Several weeks ago Julie Myers, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement testified on Capitol Hill that the cost of removing the illegal alien population that she estimated to consist of 12 million such law violator at 94 billion dollars. She went into an analysis of detention expenses and other costs but admittedly did not include the cost of finding these illegal aliens in the first place. I have spoken with a number of journalist since Ms. Myers offered her estimate of the cost of removing those illegal aliens and I provided a different perspective. It is my belief that it would not be necessary to remove all of the illegal aliens but that once our nation showed real resolve in enforcing the immigration laws that are already on the books, many illegal aliens would simply leave the United State of their own accord and at their own expense. The additional impact of such enforcement efforts would be to discourage more illegal aliens from violating our nations borders and immigration laws. In talking about these issues with those journalists, I also made the point that last year some 45 billion dollars was wired back to Latin America and the Caribbean by illegal aliens with even more money being smuggled out of our nation. Additionally, there are additional illegal aliens who come from other regions of the world who similarly send billions of dollars out of the United States. These dollars that are exported are utterly lost to our economy. If we are to consider the economic side of going after illegal aliens, our nation would realize significant savings in the long run and other areas of concern would also be addressed. Illegal immigration impacts everything from the economy, the environment, education, health care to criminal justice and national security. Illegal aliens run up non-reimbursed medical bills often causing emergency rooms to serve as primary health care providers for illegal aliens who have no health insurance and no means of paying for the treatments that they receive. Ultimately many hospitals go bankrupt and close their doors. This means that when an ambulance is attempting to bring a critically ill or injured person to an emergency room the distance needed to cover increases, thereby jeopardizing the lives of the patient in the back of that ambulance who must endure a longer ride to the nearest emergency room. It is estimated that 25% of the inmate population are illegal aliens. The cost to the criminal justice system is also high. Court costs, legal aid, costs associated with the incarcerating those criminal aliens all add to the tab. Additionally, the cost to the families of victim of violent crimes is incalculable. When someone dies the family and friends of the victim suffer immensely. When the victim of such crimes are not killed, the experience that they live through, both the physical trauma as well as the emotional trauma often scar those victims permanently impacting on their families. These victims lose days from work and productivity. These are all costs we virtually never hear about. It is also worth noting that when illegal alien advocates claim that their clients pay taxes they fail to mention that many illegal aliens "work off the books" and the items that they purchase are meager because they are focused on sending every cent they can back to their home countries. When aliens do work "on the books" many of them claim to have many children and in so doing wind up with a tax credit at the end of the year! I know this to be a fact because when I arrested illegal aliens who were working in the United States they almost always claimed to have more than 8 children! On occasion, out of sheer curiosity, I asked them for the names of their children they would often balk claiming that they hadn't seen them for so many years that they forgot their names! Occasionally they would provide the names of their kids and when I would go back to them a bit later and asked them for the names of their children, they would forget the names they had previously given me and give me a new set of names! Illegal aliens also encourage additional criminal activities in the neighborhoods that play host to this population. Many of the illegal aliens are young men who have left their families behind. They are lonely and have the normal needs for female companionship. This is all too often provided by houses of prostitution. I if you find this hard to believe, I would recommend that you drive along the main thoroughfares of neighborhoods that host large illegal alien populations. See how many gynecological clinics you find. Many of those clinics are there to service the hookers. The various services that are desired by illegal aliens also provide services that are highly needed by criminals, drug traffickers and terrorists. I refer to the telephone arcades that enable the bad guys to make phone calls with little fear of a wire tap capturing their words. The many mail box services also provide the anonymity that criminals and terrorists require for their nefarious activities. Gold buying services that abound in such neighborhoods permits the easy movement of money as do the many money remitters such as Western Union and others. These businesses are not illegal but do create headaches for law enforcement. There are also many document vendors that offer entire suites of false documents or stolen identities. These "establishments" are, of course illegal, but there are so many of them in neighborhoods that provide a relatively safe haven for illegal aliens, that law enforcement cannot keep up with going after them. I would remind you that the 19 terrorists who attacked our nation on September 11, 2001 used, among them, a total of 364 aliases! When the President and others say that they want the aliens who simply want to work to do so to enable law enforcement to deal with the terrorists, consider what I just noted above and then consider one additional point: sleeper agents. Robert Mueller, the head of the FBI and George Tenet, the former head of the CIA have both testified before Congressional hearings about their concerns regarding sleeper agents. As you may know, a sleeper agent is an alien who managed, in one way or another, to enter the United States. That is to say, they may have run our nation's borders, stowed away on a vessel or entered the United States through a port of entry under an assumed identity or by concealing material facts about their background and intentions. Once a sleeper has succeeded in entering a country he is intent on attacking, his goal is to establish himself (herself) in a community and take on as pedestrian appearance as possible. Such sleepers seek employment that provide them with camouflage and mobility. We have seen terrorists such as Mahmud Abouhalima who entered our country as a tourist and then overstayed his authorized period of admission. He subsequently applied for amnesty under the agricultural worker provisions of the disastrous Amnesty of 1986 falsely claiming to have been a farmer. His application for amnesty was approved and he drove a taxicab in New York City. The only thing he ever planted was a bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center complex that was detonated on September 26, 1993, killing 6, injuring hundreds of innocent victims and inflicting an estimated 500 million dollars in damages to that iconic complex, nearly toppling one of the towers! When I speak before audiences I often like to ask a simple question, "What does a terrorist do two days before he initiates an attack?" The answer: "He goes to his nondescript job where he hides in plain sight!" This news article from USA TODAY bolsters my arguments that enforcement efforts where illegal immigration is concerned, would act as a deterrent and would encourage those who are illegally present in the United States to leave. As I stated when I testified before a Congressional hearing a couple of years ago, "No one would break into an amusement park if they could not get to go on the rides and, no one remains in the amusement park at the end of the day when they shut down the rides and turn off the lights!" We the People can and must take charge of that amusement park! Democracy is not a spectator sport! Lead, follow or get out of the way!
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