{"id":703,"date":"2011-10-21T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T20:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=703"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T17:59:22","slug":"cost-of-illegal-immigration-message-catches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/10\/21\/cost-of-illegal-immigration-message-catches-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Illegal Immigration Message Catches On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July of 2010, (with an ensuing revision in February of 2011) FAIR\u2019s Research department released a detailed report that closely examined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/publications\/the-fiscal-burden-of-illegal-immigration-on-united-states-taxpayers\" target=\"_blank\">fiscal burden imposed by illegal aliens<\/a> on all U.S. taxpayers. The result of the analysis was that illegal immigration costs the U.S. well over $100 billion per year, a staggering amount even if we weren\u2019t facing a recession and crippling debt. This burden can be reduced over time as illegal aliens are sent home or leave on their own.<\/p>\n<p>The report has been around for some months now, but during recent GOP presidential debates its result has been used as a major talking point to emphasize the size of this problem and that action is needed now. During the GOP debate on September 18, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.), in response to a question about immigration, talked about the great burden illegal immigration imposes on the United States, while citing FAIR\u2019s cost data.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dAK0cLKVGKY?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We can\u2019t continue to sweep this issue under the rug. These costs will continue to grow as more people cross our borders illegally. $113 billion is a lot of money that could be put to better use in solving other problems, helping stimulate our economy, and encouraging more fiscally responsible government. I am glad that candidates and civic leaders are finally paying attention and proposing solutions to this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July of 2010, (with an ensuing revision in February of 2011) FAIR\u2019s Research department released a detailed report that closely examined the fiscal burden imposed by illegal aliens on all U.S. taxpayers. The result of the analysis was that illegal immigration costs the U.S. well over $100 billion per year, a staggering amount even<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2011\/10\/21\/cost-of-illegal-immigration-message-catches-on\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5,3,1513,11,4,10,7],"tags":[1076],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14624,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/14624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}