Rep-elect Kathleen Conti House District 38

Legal immigrants are a vital and important part of our economy, but ...
 
"If Colorado state and local government turns a blind eye to the efforts of foreign governments to blur the distinction between legal and illegal aliens, we're not doing our job" .....Republican Senator 
John Andrews  from the 3/15/03 Rocky Mountain News.....
Link to F.A.I.R.

www.fairus.org/site/PageServer

According to: (FAIR)

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM

 

The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers, a new detailed fiscal cost study issued in 2010, supersedes the earlier state estimates in this study.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

FAIR estimates that the annual fiscal burden on Colorado taxpayers from illegal immigration is nearly $1.1 billion. That equates to an annual cost of about $612 per native-born headed household. In addition, there is a cost to the state’s economy of roughly $730 million to $1 billion resulting from remittances sent abroad. Estimated tax collections from the illegal alien population of about $160 million would reduce the average per non-illegal immigrant headed household burden to about $520 per year.

The nearly $1.1 billion fiscal burden borne by Colorado taxpayers annually result from outlays in the following areas:
  • Education Based on an estimate of 35,000 school-age illegal aliens and 49,000 U.S.-born school-aged children of illegal alien parents and estimated per pupil costs of $11,000 per year for public K-12 schooling, Coloradans spend about $925 million annually on educating the children of illegal immigrants. An additional $68 million is being spent annually on programs for limited English students, most of whom are likely children of illegal aliens. Those estimates exclude federal contributions to those programs. More than one in ten (10.8%) K-12 public school students in Colorado is the child of an illegal alien, and this share has grown as the illegal resident population has grown.
  • Health Care State-funded uncompensated outlays for health care provided to Colorado’s illegal alien population amount to more than an estimated $82 million a year. That is a net cost after crediting compensation from the federal government. Additionally, Coloradans who have medical insurance also pay higher medical insurance bills to help cover the costs of those without insurance.
  • Incarceration The cost of incarcerating deportable aliens in Colorado’s state and local prisons amounts to more than $38 million a year. This estimate also is a net amount after deducting compensation received from the federal government. It does not include short-term detention costs, related law enforcement and judicial expenditures, or the monetary impact of the crimes that result in incarceration.