Billo_Really said:
I live in Southern California. Care to venture a guess as to what language was spoken in this area 200 years ago? It wasn't English.
I grew up and spent most of my life condemning the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall. And I am certainly not in favor of re-constructing it here! Your statements are racist and totally FOS. Why don't you show proof of their affect on our infrastructure. Prove what you say before shooting your god-damn mouth off!
You really need to take this plaque down before you start talking your racist hatred.
Mexico received $20 billion in remittances last year, an increase of 20 percent from $16.6 billion in 2004, the bank said.
Mexico received more than any other Latin American or Caribbean country.
Source - The Elpasotimes.com
After the 1994-1995 economic crisis, probably the most severe in the country's history, 50% of the population fell into poverty. A rapid growth in exports propitiated by NAFTA and other trade agreements, and the restructuring of the macroeconomic finances initiated during Zedillo's and continued during Fox's administration had impressive results in the reduction of the povery rate. According to the World Bank, extreme poverty was reduced to 17,6% in 2004. Most of this reduction was done in rural communities whose rate of poverty declined from 42% to 27,9% in the 2000-2004 period, although urban poverty stagnated at 11%. One of the main contributors to the reduction in rural poverty, according to the World Bank, was in part the Oportunidades government program.
However the main contributor to this reduction were the remittances of Mexican workers in the United States. In fact, remittances have become the second largest source of capital in the country.In view of that, the government has also started a program through which part of the remittances can be voluntarily invested in the development of infraestructure in the communities of the families receiving them. As of 2005 300 rural communities were participating and the government intended to have more than 1000 communities participating by 2006.
Source - Wikipedia
There you go buddy. Mexicans hurting America in 2 ways. One above, through remittance which destroys our economy and two below, through stealing jobs and destroying the value of everything they come in contact with.
A new study from the
Center for Immigration Studies (SOURCE) is one of the first to estimate the impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Based on Census Bureau data, the study estimates that households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they paid in taxes in 2002. These figures are only for the federal government; costs at the state and local level are also likely to be significant. Among the largest federal costs: Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion). The study also finds that if illegals were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow to nearly $29 billion. The estimated cost for the State of California alone is 10.5 billion dollars or $1183 per household. The breakdown includes $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens; $1.4 billion toward providing health care and $1.4 billion is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals.
Economic and social costs of illegal immigration
The economic and social consequences of illegal immigration across the 1,940 mile long America-Mexico border are staggering.
An average of 10,000 illegal aliens cross the border every day - over 3 million per year. A third will be caught and many of them immediately will try again. About half of those remaining will become permanent U.S. residents (3,500 per day).
Currently there are an estimated 9 to 11 million illegals in the U.S., double the 1994 level. A quarter-million illegal aliens from the Middle-east currently live in the U.S, and a growing number are entering by crossing the Mexican border.
FAIR research suggests that "between 40 and 50 percent of wage-loss among low-skilled Americans is due to the immigration of low-skilled workers. Some native workers lose not just wages but their jobs through immigrant competition. An estimated 1,880,000 American workers are displaced from their jobs every year by immigration; the cost for providing welfare and assistance to these Americans is over $15 billion a year." The National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Sciences, found in 1997 that the average immigrant without a high school education imposes a net fiscal burden on public coffers of $89,000 during the course of his or her lifetime. The average immigrant with only a high school education creates a lifetime fiscal burden of $31,000.8
80% of cocaine and 50% of heroin in the U.S. is smuggled across the border by Mexican nationals. Drug cartels spend a half-billion dollars per year bribing Mexico's corrupt generals and police officials, and armed confrontations between the Mexican army and U.S. Border Patrol agents are a real threat. There have been 118 documented incursions by the Mexican military over the last five years.
Illegal aliens have cost billions of taxpayer-funded dollars for medical services. Dozens of hospitals in Texas, New Mexico Arizona, and California, have been forced to close or face bankruptcy because of federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens. Taxpayers pay half-a-billion dollars per year incarcerating illegal alien criminals.
Immigration is a net drain on the economy; corporate interests reap the benefits of cheap labor, while taxpayers pay the infrastructural cost. FAIR research shows "the net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between $67 and $87 billion a year. The National Academy of Sciences found that the net fiscal drain on American taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a year per native household. Even studies claiming some modest overall gain for the economy from immigration ($1 to $10 billion a year) have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost ($15 to $20 billion a year) to native taxpayers."
Now do yourself a favor and shut up. If you weren't too lazy to check the links in my signature, I wouldn't have to place this information up here because it's all right in the signature links!
Get a clue buddy. The city I live in was 95% white 20 years ago. Today it is 90% hispanic 5% white and 5% other. About 7-8 years ago, the city went bankrupt from lack of taxes because more than half the city was on welfare and all the 16 year old hispanic girls were pregnant. The school system was taken over by the state. The high school I went to was so overcrowded that teachers actually had offices in closets. The school was designed for 1000 students and had 1600.. English was not spoken by most, most of the signs are in spanish, and most of the people couldn't speak english. So please, just stfu because you haven't got a clue as to what problems these people cause, you "champion" of the down trodden in *words* alone. Start giving away your possessions and your money and your job if you want to help them so bad you hypocrite, otherwise shut up.