two surveys conducted in Mexico asked: “If at this moment you had the means and opportunity to go to live in the USA, would you go?” Almost half - 46 percent - said yes.
When asked if they would be inclined to work and live in the USA “without authorization,” meaning illegally, 21 percent said they would.
Showing that interest in emigrating isn’t confined to the poor, more than one-third of Mexican college graduates said they would move to the U.S. if they could, and more than one in eight said they’d be willing to migrate even if they had to enter the country illegally.
- An estimated 10 million Mexicans now live in the U.S., more than half of them illegally
- Americans pay an estimated $8 billion annually for educating the children of illegal aliens.
- The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington has estimated that illegal aliens have cost U.S. workers $133 billion in job loses.
- Food stamps and medical benefits for undocumented immigrants cost Americans some $65 billion annually. Illegals have been running up a tab of $2.5 billion annually for Medicaid alone.
- The American Hospital Association has said the cost of uncompensated care for patients, many of them illegal aliens, amounted to more than $21 billion in a recent year.
- More than 75 percent of the illegal drugs in the U.S. come across our porous borders, according to experts.
- More than one-quarter of the inmates in federal prisons are illegals �?? costing taxpayers $900 million a year to feed and house them.
Source: Newsmax
Are those numbers a little scary? Perhaps you should make your voice heard.
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