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HEALTHCARE BURDEN   Immigrants who arrived in the US after 1989 and their US-born children account for 60 percent or 5.5 million of the increase in the size of the uninsured medical health population. (92)    The low health insurance rate means that these Third World immigrants show up at the emergency rooms of America's hospitals because they cannot afford medical care.   Dozens of hospitals in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, have been forced to close or face bankruptcy because of federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens. (93)    In a recent year in Colorado, the state's emergency Medicaid program paid an estimated $30 million in hospital and physician delivery costs for about 6,000 illegal immigrant mothers – an average of $5,000 per baby. Those 6,000 births to illegal aliens represent 40 percent of the births paid for by Medicaid in Colorado. Those 6,000 babies immediately became US citizens and qualified for full Medicaid services, with a cost yet to be tabulated. (94)    In addition to general welfare, the GAO -- the investigative arm of Congress -- has documented similar differences in the use of Medicaid, the nation's health insurance program for the needy. In California, for instance, the number of citizens naturalized in fiscal years 1996 and 1997 receiving Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid program) was 23.7 percent, compared with 8.2 percent for native-born citizens. (95)    THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF THIRD WORLD IMMIGRATION   The net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between $67 and $87 billion a year. The National Academy of Sciences found that the net fiscal drain on American taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a year per native household. Even studies claiming some modest overall gain for the economy from immigration ($1 to $10 billion a year) have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost ($15 to $20 billion a year) to native taxpayers. (96)    The net deficit is caused by a low level of tax payments by immigrants, because they are disproportionately low-skilled and thus earn low wages, and a higher rate of consumption of government services, both because of their relative poverty and their higher fertility. (97)    The federal government currently provides targeted services to migrant and seasonal farm workers and their dependents that cost about $600 million per year, equivalent to ten percent of these workers annual earnings. (98)   According to the ‘Immigrants and Welfare, Research Perspectives on Migration’ report released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- International Migration Policy Project, approximately 1.4 million immigrants receive AFDC or SSI payments totaling $4.5 billion annually. (99)   Their average monthly AFDC payment is $133; their average SSI payment is $407. Estimates using a more broadly defined package of benefits and counting benefits from state and local as well as federal sources indicate that immigrants receive approximately $25 billion annually in assistance benefits. (100)    IMMIGRATION’S IMPACT AND COST ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS   The USA’s public schools are already overcrowded with six million more children in schools today than in the late 1980s. (101)  In 2002, school attendance rose from the 1997 level of 50 million students in primary and secondary education to more than 55 million – directly as a result of immigration. (102)    In 2001, some 15 percent of students at public schools are Hispanic, and four percent are Asian. In California, half the schoolchildren are either foreign-born or first-generation Americans. (103)    The Urban Institute estimates that the cost of educating illegal alien children in the nation's seven states with the highest concentration of illegal aliens was $3.1 billion in 1993 (which, with the growth of their population to 1.3 million, was more than $5 billion in 2000). This estimate does not take into account the additional costs of bilingual education or other special educational needs. (104)    Florida   The Carrying Capacity Network, a non-profit group that studies growth and environmental issues, estimated in 1994 that legal and illegal immigrants have cost Florida $3.3 billion since 1970. (105)    California   The already mentioned cause and effect of a one-person increase in farm employment creating a 0.67-person increase in welfare use, means an additional annual welfare cost of $954 per farm job. (106)   Since farm workers in California in 1990 earned an average $7,320, each farm job was associated with a welfare payment equivalent to approximately 13 percent of average farm earnings. (107)    The costs of illegal immigration in terms of government expenditures for education, criminal justice, and emergency medical care are significant. California has estimated that the net cost to the state of providing government services to illegal immigrants approached $3 billion during a single fiscal year. (108)    Stretched to the limit by these burdensome costs, the state of California sued the federal government in 1993 for $10.5 billion to recover the costs of education, health care, policing, and other administrative services for legal and illegal immigration. (109)   ASIAN IMMIGRATION MYTHS It is often thought that Asian immigration to the USA does not fall into these damning statistical breakdowns. While it is true that Asian immigrants to the USA fare on average better than immigrants from other parts of the Third World, it is a myth that all is well with the Asian immigrant community.   According to the March 2001 US Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, some 10.8 percent of Asians and Pacific Islanders were below the official poverty line. (110)   In 1993, a study that showed that despite a ‘model minority’ stereotypical image of being self-sufficient, 55 percent of elderly Chinese immigrants in California received public assistance, mostly Supplemental Security Income. (111)    Among elderly Vietnamese immigrants, the figure was 74 percent, compared with 21 percent of Mexican immigrants and nine percent of the native-born elderly. (112)    Arrest rates for American Asians are higher than Whites for gambling, gangsterism and youth homicide. Asians make up half of all gang arrests in Seattle, and their gang rate relative to population increased to nearly even with Blacks in the city by 1994. A 1992 Los Angeles study showed that Asians are 13 times more likely than Whites to be members of gangs. (113) Nationally, Asian poverty is slightly worse than the White average. Asian poverty rates in some urban areas are equal to, or worse, than blacks. Asian poverty in many census tracts ranges in the ghetto definition range, from 40 percent up to 70 percent. Asian per capita income is often comparable or worse than Blacks in urban areas. In San Francisco, Asian poverty rates are equal to those of Blacks for the equivalent family structure. (114)    CONCLUSION – A THREAT TO THE FABRIC OF AMERICAN SOCIETY   It is thus clear that Third World immigration to the USA brings none of the supposed benefits that the pro-immigration lobby suggests. The truth is that Third World immigrants do not bring skills, prosperity, stability, or economic growth.   On the contrary: they bring with them serious social problems that are then borne by native-born Americans, both financially and socially.   Third World immigration threatens the very fabric of society, and unless halted, will see the final dissolution of the American Republic.   Sources: (1) Immigration, Coral Ridge Ministries, 1997, http://www.leaderu.com/issues/fabric/chap12.html (2)  Immigrants Revitalize America's Cities, American Immigration Law Foundation, http://www.ailf.org/pubed/cities.htm (3 - 7) Out of Control Immigration, National Anxiety Centre, 2001, http://www.anxietycenter.com/immigration/outofcontrol.htm (8 - 9) Current Numbers, Center for Immigration Studies, http://www.cis.org/topics/currentnumbers.html (10 - 11)  Out of Control Immigration, National Anxiety Centre, 2001, http://www.anxietycenter.com/immigration/outofcontrol.htm (12) US Prosperity Eludes Millions of Newcomers, Washington Post, May 10 1997 (13) Immigrants and Welfare, Research Perspectives on Migration, Vol. 1, No. 1, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- International Migration Policy Project, http://www.immigration-usa.com/immigrants_and_welfare.html (14 - 15) Immigrants' Growing Role in US Poverty Cited, The Washington Post, September 2, 1999, http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/02/201l-090299-idx.html (16 - 19 ) Forbes Magazine, 1998, http://www.forbes.com/forbes/98/1005/6207058chart1.htm (20) US Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, March 2001 (21) UNITED STATES WORRISOME POVERTY LEVELS FOR HISPANIC ELDERLY, 4/28/99, http://www.latnn.com/cgi-local/daily.pl?117-13 (22) California Quick Facts, US Census 2000,  http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06000.html. 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