Invoice for reimbursement of this...

Invoice for reimbursement of expenses	Due upon receipt
Bill to: The People of the United States	Payable to: The Taxpayers of California
Failure of the Federal government to provide necessary authority and resources to the state and local government to enforce existing immigration laws:	Cost to Californians:
Education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings	7,700,000,000.00
Uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state's illegal alien population	1,400,000,000.00
The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in California's prisons and jails, not including related law enforcement and judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration.	1,400,000,000.00
Total now due is this...	10,500,000,000.001

I got these numbers from this...
FAIR: The Cost of Illegal Immigration to Californians:  Executive Summary

Ridiculous?  You bet. (Oh, I did a Bill O'Reilly. Heh. I'm sure he would agree with everything I'm saying here and then some.)

These costs are only for one year!

Please write to your congressmembers and demand that state and local government be given the authority and the resources to enforce our existing immigration laws.  It's the least that can be done until the system is overhauled.  Heh.  If it even needs to be. What we'd probably find out is that our immigration policy would work just fine as-is if enforced, along with border control.  It is just so NOT hard to figure out.  I don't understand what the Fv<k|#& problem is.

Support this...

Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
NumbersUSA - letters to your elected official are ready to personalize and send!
Team America
Californians for Population Stabilization

Well, did you fax congress yet?

More bloggy thoughts on this...

Digger's Realm
LaShawn Barber's Corner

Previously on Drink this...

What's with the resistance to this...
Support Tancredo on this...
Implement this...

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Update: 5:55 PM Michael Williams -- Master of None, rightfully points out that I neglected to mention all the expenses related to this...

Tallglassofmilk begins to count the cost of illegal immigration to the California taxpayer and doesn't even mention the non-monetary externalities. She arrives at the figure of $10.5 billion per year, but neglects the hours of productivity lost due to traffic, the additional burden on our infrastructure, the hundreds of murders per year along with other less serious crimes like rape and robbery, and so forth and so on. Is the federal government going to reimburse the family of slain Oakland police officer William Seuis, who was run over by an illegal alien?

The weakness of democracy is that the majority can vote to impose costs on the minority. The rest of the country can afford to ignore illegal immigration (and even encourage it) because most of the costs are absorbed by California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas; consider it a "progressive tax" on nice weather.

Indeed he is quite right and it certainly was not my intention to make such an omission, just a lack of time.  Not to mention, my brain starts to really hurt when it starts adding it all up.

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1 State and local taxes paid by the unauthorized immigrant population go toward offsetting these costs, but they do not come near to matching the expenses. The total of such payments can generously be estimated at about $1.6 billion per year.

The fiscal costs of illegal immigration do not end with these three major cost areas. The total costs of illegal immigration to the state's taxpayers would be considerably higher if other cost areas such as special English instruction, school feeding programs, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers were added into the equation.

Comments

[LB]

Clever!

[McGehee]

Is there anything other than that one ballot proposition (187?), that shows Californians would actually vote in favor of immigration reform?

[tallglassofmilk]

How can Californians even know if we need reform until we find out if our current system works? All we know now is that not following our current system is having disastrous effects.

http://www.capsweb.org

[Kevin Murphy]

Ummm ... those "US Born siblings" are no less US citizens than yourself.

[tallglassofmilk]

Ummmm... except that they were begotten from illegal immigrants, not legal citizens.

[Michael Williams]

Thanks for the link!

[Digger]

Proposition 187 actually still exists. It was put on an indefinite suspension due to a preliminary injunction filed 34 days after its passing. The injunction was put in place due to a class action suit questioning it's Constitutionality.

Not to hijack TGOM's entry, but for further information on prop. 187 and prop. 200 you can see my entry from my Nov 19 entitled "California Looking At It's Own Proposition Restricting Illegal Aliens From Services"

In 1994, Proposition 187 was passed with a fifty-nine percent approval rating and went into effect on November 9, 1994. ... A preliminary injunction was approved against Proposition 187 on December 14, 1994 -- just 34 days after the people spoke. The preliminary injunction is still in force.

[Digger]

Oh and just because it came to my head while reading this and pissed me the hell off, screw that movie A Day Without a Mexican. Just remember that for every illegal alien thrown out of the country, that's one more job an employer will have to hire a LEGAL worker to do, whether it's a LEGAL immigrant or a LEGAL Citizen.

[JonB]

California can try and bill us all they want. I don't think we owe them a dime. More like they owe us for the damage they've caused our country with all the lunatics they let escape from Berkely, S.F., and L.A.