My bat shit crazy fundy mother just forwarded this very disturbing email that must be making the rounds. I would like to counter as much of this BS ASAP. (It’s interesting that email encourages the reader to vote, but doesn’t recommend anyone by name.)
SO if anybody can counter or recommend a link to shed some light on these claims, please post a link. I’m not asking DU to google for me, but I am sure there are many here that already have many of the true facts at their fingertips.
On a side note, I could not find a DU forum on undocumented workers. Maybe we need one since someone is clearly going to exploit this issue in the GE.
WARNING! If you have blood pressure issues, you should probably stop now. OK. Here goes.
Here's an eye opener._ _Subject: 338 BILLION - WOW __Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. _I now find that to be RIDICULOUS. _I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. Included a re 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.
http://tinyurl.com/zob77 __
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.
http://.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html <
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html >
3. $2.5 Billion d ollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
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!
http://www.fair us.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_researchf6ad
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research... 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h... _ _30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h... 8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html 9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caus ed by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h... 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.h... 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 marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. _ _Homeland Security Repor t:
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 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/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 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 Are we THAT stupid??? If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof. Elections are coming up. Is there anyone running for office that could or would make a difference? Think about it when you vote.
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