Friday, February 24, 2006

Not Mastercard, it's Mexican Express

Backfill underfunded Federal State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP):
Governor's revised 2003-2005 budget

$5,100,000

753 prison inmates with ICE holds @ $23,389.20 /year:
My ICE detainer list and simple math

$17,612,067.60

Inflated housing prices, wasted school resources, crime victims, drugs and having to learn Spanish to survive in America:

Priceless

5 comments:

BEAR said...

This should be expanded to national numbers and handed to J.D. Hayworth. Brief, and so eloquent. Kudos, Daniel.

Anonymous said...

Daniel -- do you know how many of the wetbacks living in Woodburn-Salem area are illegal?

BEAR said...

So, Mr. Hering, "...as far as the county and the state are concerned the money angle is probably a wash." If I can do my math correctly, that means that for every dollar of benefit produced by illegal aliens (including, I presume, the multiplier effect of dollars spent in the communities) another dollar of cost is incurred. That translates to a 100% tax on that benefit....but no, since $14-$16 BILLION is sent back to Mexico each year from this country, the economy suffers exponentially. Illegals are not paying taxes, anyway. Yeah, let's open THAT border. We're losing money on every transaction, but we'll make it up on volume! You'd better hope the accountant at your paper doesn't think like that.

Anonymous said...

Bear, Daniel, et al. --

The question of the impact of immigrants on the US economy is an empirical one and sociologists, economists and demographers have spent a considerable amount of time investigating it. Thus far, even accounting for remittances, there seems to be no conclusive evidence either way. The National Research Council Commissioned a Study that found immigrants to have a short-run negative impact, about $200 per household, that eventually turned positive in the long run. These results were written up in a book by James Smith and Barry Edmonston (1997). Also, in 1994, Jeff Passel found that the country gained $30 Billion from the presence of both authorized and unauthorized immigrants. Moreover, Douglas Massey, who has a book on the OFIR recommended reading list found that nearly 75% of undocumented migrants paid federal taxes. Such work seems to contradict your assertion that immigrants are bad for the economy, based on what?

Great piece by Hering. The EU-model seems to be working pretty well. What started as a mechanism to avoid intracontinental war has turned out to be a pretty nice economic and global-political arrangement. I was in Europe all last Summer, and there seems to be know apparent loss to national identity, which was one of the concerns.

Anonymous said...

Are you chicano?

America is a continent. not a country