>I got this in an email today....
>
>Boy am I confused. Listening to the Partisan 'politicals', I have
>been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
>
>Now ..... I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
>
>1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
> each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77%20
>
>2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance
>programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
> http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
>
>3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
>aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
>
>4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary
>school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html
>
>5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
>American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
>
>6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal
>aliens.
> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
>
>7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
>
>8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for
>Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
> http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
>
>9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages
>are caused by the illegal aliens.
> http://transcripts.cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
>
>10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
>that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In
>particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
> http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
>
>11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal
>aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U.S. from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report:
> http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
>
>12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost
>of mass deportation would be betw een $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
> http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
>
>13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
> http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
>
>14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
>Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States '. http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
>
>The total cost is a whopping: $ 338.3 BILLION dollars a year.


I find #7, that 30% of federal prisoners are illegal aliens, very hard to believe. Will see what I can find out and report back.