The biggest factors why seniors are losing more and more benefits are listed below. They are getting blamed for our country’s increasing deficit because it’s easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they’re all put together and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot of research to put together all this data. Often these programs are buried within other programs making it difficult to find each of them. The following 11 reasons should be forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that readers get sick of reading them. Included are the URL’s for verification of the following facts.
1. $11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal immigrants each year by state governments. Read more
2. $22 billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal immigrants. Read more . . . The high cost of cheap labor, read more . . .
3. $2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal immigrants. Read more . . .
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!
5. $17 billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of
illegal immigrants, known as anchor babies.
6. $3 million dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal immigrants.
7. 30% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal immigrants.
8. $90 billion dollars a year is spent on illegal immigrants for welfare & social services by American taxpayers.
9. $200 billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal immigrants.
10. In 2006, illegal immigrants sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of
origin.
11. The dark side of illegal immigration: nearly one million sex crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States.
THE TOTAL COST IS $338.3 BILLION A YEAR.