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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigr...caillegals.htm
In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population. A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year.
Among the key finding of the report are that the state's already struggling K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. Another $1.4 billion of the taxpayers' money goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens and their families, the same amount that is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals.
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The amount spent on illegal immigrants would cut California's budget deficit by more than half...if they did not have to spend the money on illegals.
But Robbie apparently does not think that services provided to illegals far exceeds the cost of the "war on drugs" along the border.