>I don't know the exact figures. I don't need to know the exact figures.
>
>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.
>
>Assume there were 100k american taxpayers getting medical care at
>hospitals in California in 2005 using health benfits they paid for.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>And that's just medical care. Figure in housing costs, schools, welfare
>and so on, and it becomes alot clearer.
>
>Illegal immigration costs 10.5 billion per year:
>
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm>
>While the cost of removing them mighrt be higher, it's a one time fee
>that I bet most taxpayers would gladly pay.
>
I wouldn't. I am not in favor of the sort of ethnic cleansing you desire. Let's call a spade a spade -- that's what this "immigration reform" is all about.