As
the Supreme Court rejects President Obama’s efforts to issue unconstitutional
executive orders with regard to immigration law enforcement, the real issue for
American voters is who pays for the benefits illegal immigrants receive. It’s
an issue to consider this November.
Illegal
immigration was not created by business. Businesses cannot give them drivers licenses, government benefits, or
issue unconstitutional executive orders as President Obama has. Only government
can get away with those actions. How it forces you to financially support
illegal immigrants in the U.S. is the real story.
It
costs just as much for illegal immigrants to live in the U.S. as it does for
documented immigrants. The price of gasoline is the same, along
with food, used cars, and housing. Public education is actually
higher for illegal immigrants, up to 50% higher, since illegal
immigrants use expensive programs such as English as a Second Language that
English-speaking students do not. So the question then becomes, if it’s so
expensive to live in the U.S., how do people working at low-paid jobs no one
else will do afford cars, housing, education, insurance and other expenses
necessary for daily living?
Anyone
who states that people earning ten dollars an hour can pay their own way should
do a brief review of the expenses of living in the U.S. The Kaiser Health Group
states that today it costs
$12,000 and more to have one baby. Mexicans make up the majority of
illegal immigrants in the U.S., but there are many from Europe and other parts
of the world who have overstayed their visas. With regard to family size, it’s
important to note that Mexicans today have about twice as many children as
white families and one more than black families. The Center for Immigration
Studies has recently found that Mexicans are now having slightly smaller
families, but regardless of family size, someone has to pay for that $12,000
per child. And, if you are aware of it or not, you are paying for it.
The other
big cost is education. In Los Angeles it now costs
$25,000 per year to teach one student, more for Hispanics since they
use ESL programs. Chicago spends $16,000 per student and New York City $27,000.
And these costs don’t include ESL. These three cities are all sanctuary cities
that violate Federal law by encouraging illegal immigration. They constantly
raise taxes and fees in order to provide illegal immigrants with subsidies for
food, housing and education. Since illegal immigrants earn so little money,
and are supported by a number of local, state, and Federal programs, you end up
being forced to pay for these programs. The Center for Immigration Studies
found in 2015 that the average illegal immigrant family receives
$6,234 in different benefits, 41% more than native households.
While
illegal immigration is based upon violations of the 1996 Immigration Law, there
has been a complete lack of obedience to the Constitution in other ways. With
regard to financial support the main way the Constitution is violated is through
misappropriation of funds, a U.S. Code Title 18 felony.
The
money spent on illegal immigrants comes from several main sources. Those
ever-higher fees you have to pay for cable TV, utilities, gasoline, property
taxes and the other necessities of daily life are in part subsidies for illegal
immigration. And much of these higher costs go to pay for the government
employees, particularly teacher union members, who are paid to teach the
children. It’s a little known but very crucial fact that today one of every
four children of school age is Hispanic and their number is the only number
growing. If not for illegal immigrant children many school systems would have
to cut back on the number of teachers. This also directly impacts their Federal
and state subsidies. And since public-school teachers pay union dues, and these
union dues are a major source of campaign contributions at local, state, and
Federal levels, there is a direct connection between political power and the
number of illegal immigrant children.
Recently there has been a dramatic
increase in the number of children entering the U.S. illegally through
the southern border. The reason for this is that children are the cash cow of
public teacher unions. They then act as the foundation of political power.
So the extra taxes, fees, and debt created by government to support illegal
immigrants is a subsidy of political power. These taxes and fees then force you
to support the one party, the Democrat Party, that is the sole beneficiary of
all these public sector
union campaign contributions.
This
is why sanctuary
cities and states, particularly those that created sanctuary policy in
the beginning, are all run by Democrats. This is technically a violation of
your First Amendment right of free speech since SCOTUS has already ruled that
campaign contributions are a form of speech. This is another way that illegal
immigration violates the Constitution, other than at the direct violation
caused by the fact that only Congress has the authority to establish a uniform
rule of naturalization.
Another
way government has devised to pay for illegal immigrant is to divert money
appropriated for city and state services to illegal immigrants. This
creates a shortfall that states and cities make up by issuing
bonds. The explosion of spending on illegal immigrants, as well as
the explosion of retirement costs of public sector workers, are the reasons
why municipal
bond debt has skyrocketed in the past ten years and is now driving
some cities and states into bankruptcy. While no state has yet had to confront
bankruptcy in Federal court, the passage of time only increases interest costs,
it never reduces them.
Public
sector union pension costs are also driven by illegal immigration. And
in states like Illinois state law puts priority on
payments to municipal pensions. These are enforced through state law. So a city
that cannot afford its annual pension contributions will have the state declare
it is delinquent and can divert state grant money to the pension funds. This is
why Chicago’s
mayor recently cut back on mental health facilities. Public pensions
have, in IL state law, priority even though they say they are devoted to
helping children and the disabled.
Other
hidden costs are in property taxes. Illinois now has
ten cities, including Chicago, where the entire property tax payment goes
only to pensions, not services. This lack of revenue
prompted Democrats to pass the stimulus programs and Recovery Act. So it ends
up in the national debt. The exact amount of national debt created by illegal immigration has
yet to be honestly audited.
Should Hillary Clinton become president there is
no doubt that she will issue further executive orders to violate Federal law
and force you to subsidize more illegal immigrants.
