Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read and then contact your congressional representative.  We need to stop bringing in amnestied illegal alien ... unless of course our purpose is to finacially break and thus destroy America.  Such is the design with a U.S. Government Now Run By Radical Revolutionaries.  We had Better to learn NOW who the U.S. government is preparing to go to war with when our economy collapses.  Remember the "progressives" (socialist/Marxists) and the Muslim Brotherhood are working together to bring down America.  See Treason: Big Time Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration of White House, DHS, DoS, Congress & Pentagon

Many senators are doing everything possible to pretend there would be no price tag for making some 80 federal welfare programs plus all entitlements available to millions of mostly low-education, low-skill illegal aliens.

The Senators have heard from lots of billionaires and special-interest lobbyists who stand to make money off the cheap-labor aspect of the amnesty.

Now, each Senator needs to hear from thousands of taxpayers who say NO to subsidizing that "cheap" labor with $6.3 trillion of taxpayer funds.

We hope citizens are making sure that their Senators' fax machines are full of messages of urgency to stop an amnesty that is sure to plunge the nation deeper into a debt crisis.

Chief researcher Robert Rector at his press conference this morning noted that the costs are predicted primarily by the education level of the illegal aliens. The study assumes, for example, that amnestied illegal aliens with only a high school degree will have roughly the same net costs to government as American citizens with only a high school degree.

Rector said:

• 75% of illegal aliens have no more than a high school degree.

• The average education level of illegal aliens is 10th grade

Rector said U.S. citizens with those kinds of education levels are immensely costly to the government because they take so much more in services than they pay in taxes.  He indicated that it is preposterous for supporters of amnesty to claim that amnestied illegal aliens with a 10th grade education will somehow cost less than U.S. citizens with a 10th grade education.

The $6.3 trillion number is so high that it may be difficult to contemplate the extraordinary magnitude of it. But it amounts to an incredible financial liability that this Congress would hang around the necks of our children and grandchildren to pay for this amnesty the rest of their lives.

Former Sen. Jim De-Mint, President of Heritage, said Senators who support the amnesty will hide behind the accounting trick of putting off most costs until after 10 years.  They tend to talk about the first 10 years when the bill forbids use of most welfare and entitlements. In fact, Rector says, the net costs will go down to about $50 billion a year the first decade as many illegal aliens start working ON the books.

But Rector says the costs will explode around the 13th or 14th year of the amnesty and grow worse over the decades, especially as the amnestied illegal aliens start collecting medicare and Social Security.

Rector says he used the methodology developed by the National Academy of Sciences and that all the variable costs are pulled from official government studies.

Some critics of the Heritage numbers claim that maybe the amnestied illegal aliens will cost a lot of money but that all of their kids will make a lot more money and pay taxes to cover the costs of their parents.

Rector says he studied that and found that the children are likely to have better education and be less costly to the government.

But he says all data suggests that the children of illegal aliens will also be a net cost to government over their lifetimes. Those costs, however, are not included in the $6.3 trillion figure.

In fact, he says, only if every single child of an amnestied illegal alien were to get a college degree, would they not be a cost to the government.  Even then, though, their net tax additions still would not come close to paying back the $6.3 trillion price tag for their parents.

ROY BECK is Founder & President of NumbersUSA

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