Social Security and Illegal Immigration

Thanks to Mary Chamberlain:

 

SOCIAL SECURITY AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

From the Heritage Foundation website

By Robert Rector

June 26, 2007

Heritage research has concluded that the cost of amnesty alone will be $2.6 trillion once the amnesty recipients reach retirement age.

 

Heritage research has shown that low skill immigrants (those without a high school degree) receive, on average, three dollars in government benefits and services for each dollar of taxes they pay. This imbalance imposes a net cost of $89 billion per year on U.S. taxpayers. Over a lifetime, the typical low skill immigrant household will cost taxpayers $1.2 million.[4]

Future taxpayer costs will be increased by policies which increase (1) the number of low skill immigrants entering the U.S., (2) the length of low skill immigrants' stays in the U.S., or (3) low skill immigrants' access to government benefits and services.

 

We are increasingly concerned about inaction on the financial challenges facing the Social Security and Medicare programs. The longer we wait to address these challenges, the more limited will be the options available, the greater will be the required adjustments, and the more severe the potential detrimental economic impact on our nation."

—2007 Trustees Report

The 2007 Social Security Trustees Report was released on April 23. This briefing explains the important facts and answers the frequently asked questions about Social Security's financial outlook.

 

How will this report affect the Social Security debate?

The debate about whether Social Security faces a problem and needs to be fixed is over. The 2007 Trustees Report shows that the program faces massive annual deficits starting in just 10 years. Now is the time to focus on solutions. Several plans to establish personal retirement accounts have been shown to fix Social Security. Instead of just criticizing these plans, personal account opponents need to propose comprehensive programs that permanently fix Social Security. Opposing a potential solution is not the same thing as coming up with a plan.

 

Has the size of the Social Security problem changed over the last year?

In net present value terms, Social Security owes $6.8 trillion dollars more in benefits than it will receive in taxes. That number includes $2.0 trillion, in net present value terms, to repay the bonds in Social Security's trust fund. This $300 billion increase is almost 4.5 percent higher than last year's $6.5 trillion number. The 2007 number consists of $2.0 trillion to repay the special issue bonds in the trust fund and $4.8 trillion to pay benefits after the trust fund is exhausted in 2041.

Social Security spending will exceed projected tax collections in 2017. These deficits will quickly balloon to alarming proportions. After adjusting for inflation, annual deficits will reach $67.8 billion in 2020, $266.5 billion in 2030, and $330.9 billion in 2035.

 

Is the important year to consider 2041, 2017, or 2009?

The year when Social Security begins to spend more than it takes in, 2017, is by far the most important year. From that point on, Social Security will require large and growing amounts of general revenue money in order to pay all of its promised benefits.

 

The billions that go to Social Security each year will make it harder to find money for other government programs or require large and growing tax increases.

A second important year is 2009. Starting in just two years, the annual Social Security surpluses that Congress has been borrowing and spending on other programs will begin to shrink. From that point on, Congress will have to find other sources to replace the money that it borrows from Social Security or shrink spending. By 2017, Congress will have about $100 billion less to spend annually.

 

Good news for seniors. The benefits of current retirees and those close to retirement remain completely safe. The 2007 report shows that the program will have enough resources to pay full benefits until 2017. Despite political scare tactics, seniors can rest assured that their benefits are safe and that they will receive every cent that they are due, including an annual cost-of-living increase.

Bad news for younger workers. Unfortunately, younger workers have a great deal to worry about. Even though their parents' and grandparents' benefits are safe, theirs are not. Any worker born after 1974 will reach full retirement age after the trust fund is exhausted. Unless Congress acts soon, younger workers can look forward to paying full Social Security taxes throughout their careers but only receiving 75 percent or less of the benefits that have been promised to them. In addition, they will have to repay the Social Security trust fund, an expense that will total almost $6 trillion by the time the trust fund is exhausted in 2041.

Also from Mary Chamberlain, via email:

What If 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America? 

        Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, "Mexican Visitor's Lament"--10/25/07.

        She interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, "They (illegal aliens) pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes. What happens to your country's economy if 20 million people go away?" That's a good question--it deserves an answer. 
Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America?
The answers may surprise you!

        In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico,
it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again.

        In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grand-kids--would move back 'home,' mostly to Mexico. That would save Coloradans an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.

        Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.

        Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67 percent drop-out/flunk-out rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado.

        Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.

        In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law, and English.

        In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.

        If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home,' the U.S. economy would return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal  American citizens at a living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers.

        No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.

        We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually...who would vacate our country.

        In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the '18th Street Gang' would vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!

        Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens!

        America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America's economy--which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt.

        At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.

        Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country--brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.

        Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid-locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11 percent of our greenhouse gases.

        Over one million of Mexico's poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what the New York Times called, called "colonias" or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta with grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, electricity, roads or any kind of sanitation.
The New York Times reported them to be America's new "Third World" inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias. (I've seen them personally in Texas and Arizona; it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.) By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico.

      We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico. We already invite a million people into our country legally, more than all other countries combined, annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders, and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation. It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.

        Interesting Statistics.  Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:

        1. $11 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare to illegal aliens.  http://tinyurl.com/zob77 

        2. $2.2 billion dollars are spent each year on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.  http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

        3. $2.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens.  http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

        4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!   http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

        5. $17 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

        6. $3 Million Dollars PER DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

        7. 30% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

        8. $90 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

        9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

        10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

        11. During the year 2005, there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine, and marijuana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border.
http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

        12. The National Policy Institute estimates that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five-year period. 
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation

        13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.   http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

        14. The dark side of illegal immigration: "Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!"
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

        The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email brianbonner90-at-gmail-dot-com and let us know at what level you would like to participate.

 

 

Comments

[Mary Chamberlain]

May 1, 2006
A huge number of illegal aliens march demanding "their rights",
and desecrating the American flag.
They called it A DAY WITHOUT AN ILLEGAL!!
declaring they could cause major economic harm to businesses and we couldn't live without them.

May 1, 2007, trying to see a little humor in the situation, I wrote and posted to Right Truth
"A DAY WITH AN ILLEGAL ALIEN"

May 1, 2008, they are promising again to march
and by now my comment is SO WHAT!

I urge everyone who reads this to consider WHAT HAS CHANGED TWO YEARS LATER!

NO FENCE!
POLITICIANS STILL TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF THEIR MOUTH!
DRUNKEN ILLEGALS STILL KILLING AMERICANS!

Please write your own thoughts and post everywhere before MAY 1, 2008

[Skunkfeathers@yahoo.com]

Living in the Denver area, I can tell you that Tina Griego, and her coalition of illegals, gang members, Reconquistas, MS 13, et al, are open-border, no holds barred for illegals buffoons. Just to use the term 'illegal alien' is a brand of racism in their lexicon. An illegal alien guns down two Denver cops and flees to Mexico? Seeking justice for the dead officer and his family (the other officer survived) is "racism and bigotry" according to those who argue and defend illegal immigration from Griego's side.

Gather 'em up and ship 'em out. Every mutha's MS 13 son of 'em.