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« on: July 13, 2009, 04:47:21 AM »

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Virginia's illegal alien population represents a major burden on the state's taxpayers and on the state budget. These costs imposed on law-abiding Virginians are unfair and unwelcome even in the best of times, but are especially burdensome at a time when the state is confronting a major general fund budget deficit of $1.1 billion.

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Virginia's illegal immigrant population costs the state's taxpayers nearly $1.7 billion per year for education, medical care and incarceration.

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The Commission did, however, have the resources and time to obtain an estimate of the taxes paid by illegal aliens prepared by The Commonwealth Institute. These estimates showed $145 to $174 million in tax collections, but ignored the other side of the fiscal equation, i.e., the cost of state services used by the same population.

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...there are additional costs associated with illegal immigration that should be kept in mind by policymakers when they focus on this fiscal cost burden. Foreign remittances sent abroad by the illegal alien population also constitute a major drain on the state's economy. The Inter-American Development Bank estimated that remittances from Virginia just to Latin America amounted to more than $1.1 billion in 2006. If this amount had been earned by American workers, it would have been spent locally, and it would have generated sales, production and jobs in the state as well as increased tax collection.

...budget deficit of $1.1 million...more than $1.1 billion sent to Latin America.

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Some state and local taxes are received from illegal immigrants - even from those working off the books. But, those same tax collections, or more likely an increased amount, would occur if the jobs were done by legal workers. So, unless it is assumed that no legal U.S. or immigrant or foreign guestworker would do the jobs now done by illegal workers, it makes little sense to consider this a true offset to the tax burden. The estimated amount of the taxes currently collected from the illegal workers is about $188 million per year.

read more here -
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200907135444/border-and-sovereignty/the-costs-of-illegal-immigration-to-virginians.html

Apparently, someone did a study and issued a report.
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