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A new map posted by HowMuch.netbreaks down the economic toll of illegal immigrants state by state, and their findings are extremely troubling.

Using information gathered from theFederation for American Immigration Reform, How Muchs map shows how much money illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers on a state-by-state basis.

California is most devastated by the heavy toll, with a whopping $23 billion in that state alone.

States closer to the Mexican border are most affected, but several states throughout the country still pay billions to support illegal immigrants througheducation, welfare, law enforcement, and medical care.

Heres the breakdown, provided by HowMuch.net:

The map doesnt include federal costs.

According to the Washington Examiner, when federal costs are included, illegal immigrants cost$135 billion a year.

Liberals like to justify their opposition to the deportation of illegal immigrants due to their estimations ofinitial costsfor actually enforcing our federal immigration laws.

But considering that current data suggests over a trillion dollars spent supporting illegal immigrants a decade, leftist arguments that deportation is too expensive crumble rather quickly.

Furthermore, Democrats like to point out that illegal immigrants pay some taxes, such as sales tax. According to the social security administration, about 3.4 million illegal immigrants (out of 11.1 million people illegally residing in the U.S.) pay social security taxes.

However, the How Much map takes into account taxes paid by illegal immigrants. So the costs represented on the map fall entirely to legal U.S. residents taxes.

The Washington Examiner continues:

The costs cover added expenditures for education, welfare, law enforcement, and medical care.

When federal costs are included, the price tag nationally soars to$135 billion a year.

FAIRs data also includes the offset of taxes paid by illegal immigrants, though the numbers are much lower. In the state and local column, they are $3.5 billion. Nationally they are $15 billion.

Overall, costs associated with illegal immigrants is much higher for state and local governments than the federal government. States pay $89 billion, Uncle Sam $46 billion.

Below are the ten states most heavily weighed by the cost of illegal immigration:

1. California $23,038,125,353

2. Texas $10,994,614,550

3. New York $7,489,141,357

4. Florida $6,290,429,108

5. New Jersey $4,466,838,574

6. Illinois $3,220,767,517

7. Georgia $2,487,719,503

8. North Carolina $2,437,965,113

9. Maryland $2,378,996,947

10. Arizona $2,314,131,964

HowMuch.net also explains why some states are more heavily affected than others, citing proximity to the border and overall population:

First, states that spend the most on illegal immigration tend to be located close to Mexico. Looking at out map, the two states with the highest expenditures are California ($23B) and Texas ($11B), both sharing long borders with Mexico. In fact, theres a cluster of dark red states stretching along the Southwest. States closest to the phenomenon pay the most as a result.

Second, states with higher population levels tend to spend more than their less populated counterparts. You can see a group of high-expenditure states clustered around the Northeast, not to mention Illinois and Florida. According to theU.S. Census Bureau, California and Texas are also the two most populous states in the country. High population levels and proximity to Mexico act like a double-whammy for illegal immigration expenses.

Now take a look at the places with relatively low levels of expenditures for illegal immigration, the light blue states. They are all located far away from the U.S.-Mexico border with relatively small population levels. West Virginia is perhaps an exceptional state, seeing that it is surrounded by red and dark red. We can speculate that this is likely due to the fact that West Virginia has a struggling economy which actuallycontracted last year.

Are Democrats willing to continue this sort of spending for years to come?

Tell us what you think of this mess, and sound off in the comments below.

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Map Shows the Cost of Illegal Immigration, By State

Although it is difficult to measure how many people reside in the UK without authorisation, a Home Office study based on Census 2001 data released in March 2005 estimated a population of between 310,000 and 570,000.[1] The methods used are also much debated.[2] Problems arise in particular from the very nature of the target population that is hidden and mostly wants to remain as such.[3] The different definitions of illegality adopted in the studies also pose a significant challenge to the comparability of the data.

More recently, a study carried out by a research team at LSE for the Greater London Authority, published in 2009, estimated the illegal migrant population of the UK by updating the Home Office study.[4] The LSE's study takes into account other factors not included in the previous estimate, namely the continued arrival of asylum seekers, the clearance of the asylum applications backlog, further illegal migrants entering and leaving the country, more migrants overstaying, and the regularisation of EU accession citizens.

The most significant change in this estimate is however the inclusion of children born in the UK to illegal immigrants. For the LSE team illegal migrants oscillate between 417,000 and 863,000, including a population of UK-born children ranging between 44,000 and 144,000. Drawing on this and taking stock of the outcome of the recent Case Resolution Programme,[5] a University of Oxford's study by Nando Sigona and Vanessa Hughes estimate at end 2011 a population of illegal migrant children of 120,000, with over half born in the UK to parents residing without legal immigration status.[6]

According to the House of Commons Library, several definitions for a migrant exist in United Kingdom so that a migrant can be:

Illegal immigrants in the UK include those who have:

Migration Watch UK, is a think-tank that claims to be neutral. Migration Watch UK has criticised the Home Office figures for not including the UK-born dependent children of unauthorised migrants. They suggest the Home Office has underestimated the numbers of unauthorised migrants by between 15,000 and 85,000.[11]

Jack Dromey, Deputy General of the Transport and General Workers Union and Labour Party treasurer, suggested in May 2006 that there could be around 500,000 illegal workers. He called for a public debate on whether an amnesty should be considered.[12] Former Home Secretary David Blunkett suggested that this might be done once the identity card scheme is rolled out.[13] However the scheme was scrapped due to its widespread unpopularity by the coalition government in 2010.

London Citizens, a coalition of community organisations, is running a regularisation campaign called Strangers into Citizens, backed by figures including the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, the Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.[14] Analysis by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggested that an amnesty would net the government up to 1.038 billion per year in fiscal revenue.[15] However, analysis by MigrationWatch UK suggests that if the migrants granted amnesty were given access to healthcare and other benefits, the net cost to the exchequer would be 5.530 billion annually.[16]

It has since been suggested that to deport all of the irregular migrants from the UK would take 20 years and cost up to 12 billion.[17] former Mayor of London Boris Johnson commissioned a study into a possible amnesty for illegal immigrants, citing larger tax gains within the London area which is considered to be home to the majority of the country's population of such immigrants.[18]

In February 2008, the government introduced new 10,000 fines for employers found to be employing illegal immigrants where there is negligence on the part of the employer, with unlimited fines or jail sentences for employers acting knowingly.[19]

In July 2013, the Home Office introduced an advertising lorry in London with its billboard saying "In the UK illegally? GO HOME OR FACE ARREST Text HOME to 78070 for free advice, and help with travel documents. We can help you return home voluntarily without fear of arrest or detention." This campaign was criticised from various quarters: Vince Cable, a prominent minister in the governing coalition, called it "stupid and offensive";[20] some on the left said that "go home" evoked an old National Front slogan.[21] Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party criticised the campaign as "nasty" and suggested that its real message was "Please dont vote UKIP, were doing something".[22]

In 2015 the newly elected Conservative Government announced it would be requiring Landlords to confirm the immigration status of tenants. Those failing to do so, or knowingly or unknowingly housing illegal immigrants could face criminal prosecution.

In 2015 a large number of migrants had set up a camp at Calais in the hope of entering the UK illegally, although there have always been some migrants entering the UK illegally from here many illegal migrants or asylum seekers try to enter the UK from France, by hiding inside trucks or trains and they've done so for years.[23]This sparked a large political debate in the UK. The UK government responded by funding additional security measures in Calais including a 7 million fence to prevent migrants entering the UK.

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Illegal immigration to the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

Even though the costs of illegal immigration borne by taxpayers at the federal level are staggering, they only pale in comparison to the fiscal burden shouldered by taxpayers at the state level. Most government taxes and fees remitted to government by Americans are paid in forms other than income taxes submitted to the IRS on April 15th. There are city and state income taxes, fuel surcharges, sales and property taxes, etc. States and localities also bear the main burden for costs associated with public education, city and county infrastructure, and local courts and jails.

A further complication is the fact that, while barred from many federal benefits, state laws allow illegal aliens to access many state-funded social welfare programs. Because so little data is collected on the immigration status of individuals collecting benefits, it is difficult to determine the rate at which illegal aliens use welfare programs. However, based on the average income of illegal alien households, it appears they use these programs at a rate higher than lawfully present aliens or citizens.

The combined total of state and local government general expenditures on illegal aliens is $18,571,428,571 billion. The services referenced in this section are supported directly by the payment of city and state taxes and related fees. At the state level, examples of general expenditures would be the costs of general governance, fire departments, garbage collection, street cleaning and maintenance, etc. The state, county or municipality or even a special taxing district in some situations may provide some of these services. In most cases, localities offer more services than the state. By FAIRs estimate, there is approximately a 65 percent to 35 percent cost share between local and state governments.

The estimate of general expenditure services received by illegal alien households, beyond the specific outlays mentioned in the sections above, excludes capital expenditures and debt servicing. The calculation for each state is based on the states annual operating budget, reduced by the amount covered by the federal government. That expenditure is then reduced further based on the relative size of the estimated population of illegal aliens and their U.S.-born minor children. As noted in our population estimate, this means states like California, Texas, Florida, New York, etc., with larger illegal alien cohorts, will bear larger shares of these costs.

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The Cost of Illegal Immigration to US Taxpayers | FAIR

In California, illegal immigration is a serious issue. Since California has a large coastline and shares a border with Mexico, for illegals California presents an easy point of access into the United States. Although Californias borders and sea ports receive quite a lot of security support, the sheer size of the states borders make it possible for illegal immigration to occur.

There are many reasons why illegal immigration in California is considered a serious issue. While California welcomes immigration, illegal immigration poses a serious threat. Illegal immigrants are not carefully vetted the way that legal immigrants are for potential diseases, criminal records, and other issues which may pose a threat to California residents. Since illegals enter California without speaking to authorities, they sometimes enter with criminal records, criminal intent, and illnesses which can be passed on to residents. As well, some people who speak out against illegal immigration in California note that illegal immigrants entering California often need to commit illegal acts such as working illegally in order to stay within the country.

Illegal immigrants also place a financial burden upon the state. According to some reports, there were more than 2.9 million illegal immigrants in California in 2009. Legal immigrants and residents of California pay taxes in order to support social programs which they use. However, illegal immigrants do use the public school system, emergency rooms, and other public services without paying taxes. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), illegal immigration costs of California more than $10 billion annually. In addition, many experts on immigration point out that illegal immigrants may remove jobs and lower working conditions for legal residents and legal workers within the state and across the country.

Those who argue for illegal immigrant reform and amnesty sometimes point out that illegal immigrants actually often perform jobs that legal immigrants and residents do not wish to perform. Undocumented workers take on hard and low-paying jobs, such as picking fruit, and cleaning jobs which are difficult to fill at low wages with documented workers. Some experts argue that offering amnesty to some or all illegal immigrants in California would help safeguard California wages and would help protect both undocumented workers and residents of the state. Both sides of the California immigration debate have tried to come up with solutions to illegal immigration California issues but so far no catch-all solution exists. For illegals, California is still a plausible place to enter the country and for legal residents of the state illegal immigration continues to be a difficult and expensive problem.

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My oldest daughter lives in Los Angeles, a short walk from MacArthur Park. Shes not political. Not that politics is bad, but the practicalities of surviving in a tough city requires her to be no-nonsense about whats important to her success.

Im convinced she knows nothing about Beto, Bernie, Biden, Booker or Buttigieg. But living at ground zero of one of the most sanctimonious of sanctuary cities, she knows more about the perils of illegal immigration than all of them combined. Politics was dumped at her doorstep and, like many, shes cracking under the weight.

Her message? The situation in LA is unbearable.

Far outside the political incubators of Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff and Maxine Waters all of them California lawmakers my daughter bears the brunt of the raw political debris created by deeply devious politicians who excrete pious lies about how much they care about minorities.

In utter frustration, my daughter texted me a video that she filmed near her apartment. I was shocked at what I saw: Cluster after cluster of illegals lined along public streets selling anything they could find, spread over raggedy blankets or anything else they could use to form a boundary for their slipshod sidewalk stores.

They are above the law, she wrote. How can you sell so much food on the street without a permit? Without the grading system? I didnt know you could have a business and not pay taxes. They're spreading, too. It used to be just several blocks but if you turn the corner, theyre further down than ever before. Both sides of the street. There are so many of them. This! Is! Their! Country!!! Lol.

My daughters video was strikingly similar to one shot by LA resident Shirley Husar, CEO of Urban Game Changer, near LAs MacArthur Park last year. The park, renamed after Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the 1940s, was where Jimmy Webb composed the song MacArthur Park that Richard Harris recorded in 1968.

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark, Harris sang. Today, its melting in the light as it has become quasi-home to an influx of illegals who live and sleep there.

Husars video showed a woman using a shopping cart wrapped in aluminum foil to cook food. A man sold heaps of crawdads stuffed inside a baby carriage. No ice. No refrigeration. Another man sold piles of chili peppers sprawled on the bare sidewalk under a rickety table. Others sold bootleg CDs, phone chargers, hats and stuffed animals.

I really believe that they skim from the stores that they work in, and then they bring them down here, Husar said. This is a public sidewalk. This happens every weekend. I call this an underground economic operational system where they pay cash, they dont pay taxes, they dont pay for the space on the ground, they dont pay sanitation [fees] or licensing.

She asked eight policemen chatting across the street how they could stand by while laws were being broken.

The mayor says its legal, one policeman said. That mayor is Eric Garcetti, a visceral Trump-hater who vowed to keep defending his sanctuary policy after the president said that defying federal law would cost these cities federal funding.

Slashing funds for first-responders, for our port and airport, for counterterrorism, crime-fighting and community-building serves no one, Garcetti said. Not this city, not the federal government, not the American people.

Yawn.

That kind of Trojan Horse rhetoric falls on deaf ears for the people who are stuck in the Twilight Zone of illegal immigration. They have no political connections. They have no voice. Theyre unsophisticated in the twisted political language that defies the realities on the ground. They are placated, marginalized and ignored, and theyre growing angrier as they realize that no one speaks for them.

No one except Trump.

One black man wearing a MAGA cap and a red Trump-Pence T-Shirt told county leaders that hes ready to take the law into his own hands.

Make California Great Again! he said in a County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors meeting about SB 54, Californias sanctuary state bill. We gonna handle this! If you guys dont, I will! And if Mr. Trump would have lost, I would have organized some brothers, and we [would] put all your asses under citizens arrest (pointing to a group of pro-illegal immigrant protesters).

At a different meeting about the bill, long-time activist Lupe Moreno offered deeply emotional comments about the murder victims of illegal immigrants.

Our beautiful children have been sacrificed at the altars of elected officials and non-profits; as we could see how many non-profits are making money off of our dead children ... We want you to stop this now! Now! I have it on good authority that our side wins because you have weeping mothers, not only in California, but throughout the United States. Stop trying to blur the difference between legal and illegal. Theres a big difference! Were Americans!

Ted Hayes, an articulate Civil Rights homeless activist in Los Angeles has been speaking out for years against the perils of illegal immigration, especially on black people.

I dont blame the people, he said. I blame the politicians for failing to protect us.

Unlike Hayes, I do blame illegals for knowingly breaking laws to pursue a better life at the expense of others. Politicians hand them the keys to someones house against the owners will, and illegals gladly rush in to help themselves while police sit back and do nothing. Politicians have fortified the plight of illegals with police power.

Like my daughter, LA residents who once recoiled at the noise of todays politics are finding themselves at city halls, watching political programs and chiming in on social media because, for them, this issue is dire and getting worse. And growing numbers of these minorities are MAGA-hat-wearing Trumpsters.

Partly to spite Trump, California politicians have forced illegal immigration down the throats of their most vulnerable citizens. And while they clippity-clop around the country promising to bring La-La Land to the entire nation, theyre telling their most powerless citizens to shut up and get over it while they make them second-class citizens at the taxpayer's expense.

From a safe distance, California politicians are playing with matches on top of a political powder keg. Chatting with my daughter from ground zero, you get the feeling that it wouldnt take much for things to explode, not only in LA but across the nation.

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Illegal Immigration Is A Powder Keg In LA - townhall.com