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Originally Posted by Chief
I think you are the one who isn't thinking it through. Illegal immigrants in the US cost the US a fucking fortune in various health care, etc, not to mention the huge numbers of them that turn to crime to pay their way. Hell, there is some Hispanic Gang in the United States now with over 30k members. Each illegal they send to jail (for example - and they send a shitload of them to jail) costs on average around $50k per year to keep in there (yeah that's like a good fucking wage for someone who is out of work, not to mention all the other associated costs which are enormous - i.e. the strain on the police system, the cost of dragging them through courts, etc etc). The amount the US would save is also huge, and even if they had to subsidise some forms of work to make it more attractive to people they would have much more money to do so.
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This might be a viable point if it wasn't for the fact that a large plurality of the inmates are incarcerated for drug related offenses, the vast bulk of those being simple possession or sale/distribution. In many states, there's as many people serving terms for drug-related offenses as violent crimes.
The reason so many people are in jail is simple:
- Jails make money
- Conservatives like money
- ...and their answer to any crime is "lock em up" (or deport, or kill, or torture, or whatever)
This doesn't say anything about the illegal immigrant situation, of course... but it does show that illegal-immigrant related costs are dwarfed by the cost of half the prison budget going to housing people who get high and their dealers.
