April 20, 2006 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. An American Indian Reader Says the Immigration Problem Is Multiculturalism A FAIR Economist Says His Calculations on Illegal Alien Costs Match VDARE.COM’sRe: Edwin S. Rubenstein’s Column: Justice Now! But not for native-born taxpayers From: Stan Fogel [e-mail him] I read Rubenstein’s recent column with interest. Using my Federation for American Immigration Reform demographic projections and applying them to FAIR's cost of illegal alien estimates for California, Texas, Arizona and Florida, I estimated current and projected state and local costs for every state and the U.S. aggregate. These were recently shown on the FAIR website. FAIR’s current cost estimate is $36 billion; these are gross costs, we assume that taxes collected from illegal aliens are negligible. The difference between our bottom line and Rubenstein’s $61 billion may be because FAIR’s estimates were only for education, health care and incarceration while his cover all expenditures. In addition, Rubenstein’s projections may be for the entire immigrant population. Given the above considerations, our estimates appear
to confirm each other quite nicely. In addition I
suspect that if all the infrastructure and
environmental expenditures could be quantified, the
total might be considerably greater. However, in my judgment, any such benefits accrue
almost entirely to the immigrant stock itself and to our
elite;
middle class and blue collar workers---both white and
black---are seriously undermined. These costs are for future populations of illegal aliens, amnestied aliens, immigrants under the guest worker proposal and their offspring; in other words for the entire illegal alien "substitute" population as envisioned by Washington’s governing elite. _________________________________ Stan Fogel is a New York City economist and a consultant to FAIR on its demographic studies. |
