Fiscal Impact Study On Immigration Costs
3/9/2009
California, the frontrunner for state debt, teeters on the edge of financial Armageddon. It ledgers reveal billions of dollars in the red. Meanwhile, Governor Schwarzenegger dances around his ‘gorilla in the kitchen’ like a nervous ‘girly’ housewife. “Farther east, the State of Colorado finds itself a scant $630 million short of paying its bills.”
What do California and Colorado share in common? Answer: their illegal criminal alien populations dictate their financial calamities. With three to as many as four million criminal aliens, California cannot fund its educational systems, medical care and incarceration costs. How dire? Criminal aliens cost California $10.2 billion annually.
At the same time, Colorado’s 500,000 to 700,000 criminal aliens cost that state a whopping $1.2 billion annually to educate, medicate and incarcerate its alien population.