Something to think about...

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:
I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at: FAIR: Immigration and Welfare
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

Verify at:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP.../01/ldt.0.html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

Verify at CNN.com - Transcripts
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at: CNN.com - Transcripts
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify at: CNN.com - Transcripts
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: CNN.com - Transcripts
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.
Verify at: CNN.com - Transcripts
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern
Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds
of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and mariju ana, crossed into the US from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be
between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 - $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/p df/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.

Verify at:

Wooldridge - How Much Further Into This Nightmare?
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'

Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

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Amnesty hasn't worked in the past or we would not have an illegal problem now. I am not sure why our politicians want to repeat that bit history again.

A market friendly work visa could solve our migrant, black market labor participation permanently. Any current illegals could simply be fined and issued a work visa. Foreign labor market participants wanting to enter the US labor market could simply apply for a work visa, without the expense of a fine if they go through normal channels.

A simple work visa scheme could also incorporate forms of catastrophic insurance to help reduce public and private sector costs.

A hypothetical work visa could be good for one year, renewable annually. I don't think there is any need for a time limit or term limit for an annual work visa.

Any revenue generated from this type of public policy could be used to help defray public sector costs, and help provide for unemployment and training benefits for native US labor market participants. Ideally, there would be no time limit on unemployment benefits and native US workers could spend their time going to school or training for professions that are more in demand.