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Link – Amnesty Burdens Federal BudgetAmnesty will propel the US economy into much further debt Bonn 7 [Xelan, Writer for Patriot Union of America, September 27 2007, http://www.patriotunion.org/news/by_issue/immigration/could_amnesty_bankrupt_economy.htm] Americans shelled out nearly $21 billion for uncompensated health care services to illegal aliens. Amnesty is not expected to decrease but rather increase this amount over time, as illegal aliens once amnestied are not going to miraculously have a larger paycheck. Extend this amount over 30 years and the cost totals $630 billion. Adjust for the added 80 million family members that come and we are looking at $3.15 trillion over the next 30 years. Our new adjusted grand total for amnesty over a 30 year period is now $36.18 trillion! Assume all projections are only 50% correct. Do we really want to amnesty 12-20 million illegal aliens and then foot the bill? What if the number of illegal aliens is really much higher, as well as our cost impacts? And what about interest payments on this money, which could effectively double or even triple the amount? Let’s see how this effects the national debt and economy. Our national debt will tick upwards an average of over $1 trillion per year, all things remaining the same (assuming there are no new healthcare programs or other costly entitlement programs enacted for Americans to impact the system). In just one decade, we will have doubled our entire national debt! Where will that money come from? Link – Amnesty Burdens Federal BudgetAmnesty creates an incentive for immigrants to bring their families placing a massive burden on social services Rector 6 [Robert, Senior Research Fellow for The Heritage Foundation, May 12 2006, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2006/05/Amnesty-and-Continued-Low-Skill-Immigration-Will-Substantially-Raise-Welfare-Costs-and-Poverty] But the fiscal problem gets worse; when an illegal immigrant has obtained citizenship through the Amnesty process, he or she would have the right to bring his or her parents in the U.S. as permanent lawful residents. (Currently one-tenth of the annual flow of legal immigrants to the U.S. are parents of recent immigrants who have naturalized.) If ten million current illegal immigrants were granted Amnesty and citizenship under CIRA, as many as twenty million foreign born parents would be given the right to immigrate to the U.S. Once in the U.S., the immigrant parents would receive social services and government funded medical care, much of it paid for through the Medicaid disproportionate share program. These immigrant parents coming to the U.S. would also be eligible to apply for citizenship themselves. On attaining citizenship, most would become eligible for benefits from the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid programs, at an average cost of over $18,000 per person per year. While it is true that the language requirements of the citizenship test would serve as a barrier to immigrant parents becoming citizens, the tests are not very difficult and the financial rewards of citizenship would be very great. If only ten percent of the parents of those receiving Amnesty under CIRA became citizens and enrolled in SSI and Medicaid, the extra costs to government would be over $30 billion per year. Obviously, these costs would not begin for some time, but the long-term potential of Amnesty to raise government spending is quite real. While no one can predict how many spouses, children, and parents of the beneficiaries of Amnesty would enter the country, the pool of those who could enter is enormous, and the potential long-term government costs would be staggering. Link – Amnesty Burdens Federal BudgetAmnesty puts a strain on healthcare and federal budget Guess 6 [Gwyn, Staff Writer for Associated Content, Professor at University of Memphis, December 18 2006, http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/101348/ten_reasons_amnesty_is_a_bad_idea_for.html?cat=37] The national health care is at HUGE risk if any of these amnesty provisions is passed. Why? Because illegals can go to any hospital and demand care and the hospital is obliged to give it to them, regardless of the fact that the state picks up their bill. That translates to you and me, the hard-working taxpayer, folks. The Heritage Foundation has done some excellent work on clarifying the muddy figures and heart-gushing sentiments encorporated in this bill and in some of its ammendments. According to Robert Rector, passage of this amnesty bill would "increase long-term Federal spending by at least $50 Billion per year. That's a Billion, with a big, fat "B." Granting amnesty to millions of illegals would put a huge fiscal strain on the federal budget and social services Rector 6 [Robert, Senior Research Fellow for The Heritage Foundation, May 12 2006, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2006/05/Amnesty-and-Continued-Low-Skill-Immigration-Will-Substantially-Raise-Welfare-Costs-and-Poverty] Granting Amnesty would render illegal immigrants eligible for federal benefit programs. The CIS study estimated the additional taxes that would be paid and the additional government costs that would occur as a result of amnesty. It assumed that welfare utilization and tax payments among current illegal immigrants would rise to equal the levels among legally-admitted immigrants of similar national, educational, and demographic backgrounds. If all illegal immigrants were granted Amnesty, federal tax payments would increase by some $3,000 per household, but federal benefits and social services would increase by $8,000 per household. Total federal welfare benefits would reach around $9,500 per household, or $35 billion per year total. The study estimates that the net cost to the federal government of granting Amnesty to some 3.8 million illegal alien households would be around $5,000 per household, for a total federal fiscal cost of $19 billion per year. Download 0.75 Mb. Share with your friends:
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