Hi Kevin

Here's a hypothetical question. Suppose two illegal immigrants have children. Are the children US citizens or not?

If one illegal immigrant has children, what of them? The illegal is deported regardless?

Our previous police chief used to complain that a person would be deported for criminal activity only to return. The different branches of the government leave too many holes.

>I don't know the exact figures. I don't need to know the exact figures.
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>The cost of removing the illegals is a one time fee. It's a startup
>cost, so to speak. You assume this going in. The real question is the
>long term.
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>Assume there were 100k american taxpayers getting medical care at
>hospitals in California in 2005 using health benfits they paid for.
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>Assume there were 100k illegal alians getting medical care at
>hospitals in California in 2005. The law says they MUST be treated.
>Who's paying for the illegals to get medical care? The taxpayers are.
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>Multiply this by 10 years, or 20 years, and it doesn't take complex
>mathmatical computations to see that the long term benefit of removing
>the illegals.
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>And that's just medical care. Figure in housing costs, schools, welfare
>and so on, and it becomes alot clearer.
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>Illegal immigration costs 10.5 billion per year:
>http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm
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>While the cost of removing them mighrt be higher, it's a one time fee
>that I bet most taxpayers would gladly pay.
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>>>No, I don't
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>>>But I do know that while there might be some significant cost to eliminate the
>>>illegal immigrants, the long term benefits justify it.
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>>I don't see how you can know that without assuming that $Y is an initial lump sum and the following years will see much lower values for $Y.
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>>That doesn't seem like a good assumption to me.