GarageGuy's Blog

Recieved this in an e-mail.  Yep, cut & paste but thought it was worth sharing.

Numbers and Facts:  So often, we get caught up in a debate over political semantics and end up ignoring the hard-shell realities of what we're talking about.

   According to immigrationCounters.com, Here are some of the realities that Flake-Gutierrez Bill would airbrush out of the picture:

 Number of Illegal Aliens in the Country

20,807,645

Money Wired to Mexico City since January, 2006

$22,213,001,672.00

Cost of Social Security Services for Illegal Aliens since 1996

$397,450,739,563.00

Number of Children of Illegal Aliens in Public Schools

3,958,789

Cost of Illegal Aliens in K-12 Since 1996:

$13, 965,063,431.00

Number of Illegal Aliens Incarcerated

332,594

Cost of Incarcerations Since 2001 

$1,398,127,429.00

Number of Illegal Aliens Fugitives

642,799

Skilled Jobs Taken by Illegal Aliens

9,872,838

   Figures can trick your eyes.  Take particular note that items 2,3,5, and 7 reflect BILLION not millions of dollars and that item 3 exceeds one-third of a TRILLION dollars.  Can you imagine how much it will cost taxpayers if we triple the number of Illegals entering this country!!