by Whims Ivey

Created on: December 17, 2006   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

According to Steve King (R-IA), twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens. Doing the math that comes to 4,380 Americans that might well still be alive this Christmas if not for illegal aliens. Those Americans left behind include mothers, fathers, siblings, spouses, and children who now are being raised by single parents.

A congressional study recently found that eight children are sexually assaulted every day in America by legal and illegal immigrants? Even though that number falls below their murder rate, that's eight too many for me. They are either caught, which means I get to support them for the next X amount of years, they are released on bail (and disappear into the populace), or they are not caught, allowing them to assault more children. Advocates for amnesty claim that only 1% engage in criminal activities, but 29% of our prison population is comprised of legal and illegal immigrants. (The federal government deliberately does not distinguish between legal/illegal aliens in the system.) Many of them have dependents here, so we not only support the convicts, but also their families, including their anchor babies.

Illegal aliens contribute $144 billion into our economy each year, but use $approximately $250 in services, according to economist Donald Huddle, Rice University, who estimates the net cost of legal and illegal immigration will be $108 billion dollars this year. It seems logical to deduce that removal of the 12-20 billion illegals now estimated to be in the United States would reduce that amount significantly.

Diseases that doctors thought had been eradicated - measles, hepatitis, tuberculosis, leprosy, polio, malaria, dengue fever, and mumps - are being brought into the country, into our schools where our children are infected. Treatment in most cases is paid for by American taxpayers. Education resources are being diverted to pay for everything from bi-lingual education to free breakfast/lunch programs for their children, along with free immunizations and in-school health care. Between 300,000 and 350,000 anchor babies are born annually on the taxpayer's dime; they and their parents are immediately eligible for social services. They depress wages for low-income Americans and compete for their jobs. For decades, African-American single mothers worked in the hotel industry in Atlanta as housekeepers. They are being driven out of those jobs, replaced, by illegal aliens who are willing to work for less. They are creating an environmental

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