Speech #1090140029

In education. we hear about overcrowding. We hear about the decline of quality in our schools. Well. the States are spending $7.4 billion annually to provide a kindergarten through 12th grade education to illegal immigrants. Without schoolage illegal immigrants and the children of illegal immigrants. school enrollment would not have risen at all in the past decade. Our limited education dollars are being expended not for our own childrens benefit but for the children of foreigners who have come here illegally. That is a crime against our own youth. spending billions of dollars which should be spent for their education instead going to the children of people who have come here illegally. Our health care system is also under siege. Illegal immigrants account for 43 percent of those without health insurance in our country. So. at least $9 billion of our scarce health care dollars are being spent on foreigners who have come here illegally. So business gets cheap labor. the rest of us end up picking up the hospital costs. and as well as bearing the burden of closed hospital emergency rooms. as well as the insurance health care that we have to pay for our own families. This skyrocketing health care can be traced right back to illegal immigrants because what happens is when they do not have insurance. when they are treated. their bill is simply added on to our bill and sent to the insurance companies who we have to pay for. Almost 30 percent of all Federal prisoners are foreign born. So our criminal justice system is breaking at the seams. That is one out of every three Federal prisoners is foreign born. and the estimates are at cost estimates of $22.517 are necessary to incarcerate an illegal immigrant for 1 year. and that. by the way. is just a small part of the price Americans are paying. What do you think about the other price we are paying? The property damage. the theft that is traced to criminal aliens who are not supposed to be here?