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 Post subject: STATISTICS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN INDIANA
PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:27 am 
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HOW MANY ILLEGALS? HOW MUCH DO THEY COST?


There are an estimated 100,000-200,000 illegal aliens in the State of Indiana a 61% increase during the years of 2000-2008
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/107.pdf (page1, map 2)

$389 million dollars earned in the state of Indiana is not spent here but was wired to Latin American countries.
http://www.iadb.org/mif/remittances/usa ... d_state=IN

In the 2007-2008 school year, over $437 million dollars educating Limited English Children
Indiana schools had 45,885 Limited English Proficient (LEP) students in 2008-09
http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/TRENDS/t ... fm?var=lep

45,885 LEP students x $11,400 per pupil per year = $523,089,000

NOTE: Due to a new counting method at the Dept. of Education (DOE), the number of Limited English students in 2008-09 APPEARS significantly lower than in 2007-08. That is because the DOE used to include another category called Fluent English Proficient (FEP) consisting of students who were somewhat conversant in English but still needed help. There were almost 20,000 students in that FEP group who are no longer being counted among the Limited English students in 2008-09.

Old LEP data:
Lauren Harvey, Assistant Director of the Office of English Language Learning and Migrant Education for the Indiana Department of Education, testified before the 2008 Immigration Study Committee that the annual cost of public education for each student is $11,400. That figure includes all funds. Based on that information, it cost $747,441,000 to educate the 65,565 Language Minority Students listed on the Department of Education website for the 2007-08 school year.

No one knows for sure how many of these students are children of illegal aliens. However, both committee co-chairs agreed that the Pew Hispanic Center was the most impartial source for data. Mr. Kochar, Assistant Director of Research for Pew, testified that more than 80% of the immigrant flow from Mexico to Indiana is undocumented. The Department of Education website shows that 47,971 of the Language Minority Students speak Spanish. Therefore, it is reasonable to estimate that Indiana currently spends $437,486,000 to educate the children of illegal aliens. (80% of 47,971=38,376 x $11,400 = $437,486,000)
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As of Nov. 2009 there were 288,696 Indiana citizens unemployed drawing unemployment benefits yet thousands of illegal worker are working jobs.
http://www.hoosierdata.in.gov/dpage.asp ... l_number=2

About half of illegal workers pay no state income taxes. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

If, for example, there are 50,000 illegal workers earning $20,000 per year that would generate $1 billion in earnings and approximately $500 million of that would be untaxed/off-the-books. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html


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 Post subject: Re: STATISTICS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN INDIANA
PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:18 am 
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The numbers in this Pew Hispanic Research Center report are simply astounding!

Quote: "Mexicans make up the largest number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. (7.0 million, or 59%) as well as the largest number of legal immigrants (5.7 million, or 21%)."

Certain religious organizations attempt to excuse illegal immigration, particularly from Mexico, by saying we don't allow enough Mexicans to immigrate legally. This study shows how untrue that is!




http://pewhispanic.org/files/factsheets/47.pdf

Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 2008

A record 12.7 million Mexican immigrants lived in the United States in 2008, a 17-fold increase since 1970. Mexicans now account for 32% of all immigrants living in this country. The second-largest nationality group of immigrants, Filipinos, account for just 5% of all immigrants in the U.S.

More than half (55%) of the Mexican immigrants in this country are unauthorized. Overall, Mexicans comprise about six-in-ten (59%) of the estimated 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. (see “A Portrait of Undocumented Immigrants Living in the United States,” Passel and Cohn, 2009).

No other country in the world has as many total immigrants from all countries as the United States has immigrants from Mexico alone. Other than the U.S., the country that hosts the largest number of immigrants is Russia, with 12 million foreign born, many of whom are natives of countries that were part of the former Soviet Union.

The number of Mexicans living in the U.S. is very large from Mexico’s perspective, too. About 11% of everyone born in Mexico is currently living in the U.S. This large-scale transfer of population has taken place fairly quickly in demographic terms. As of 1970, 760,000 Mexican immigrants, or 1.4% of Mexico’s population, lived in the U.S. And in 1960, Mexico ranked seventh as a source of immigrants to the U.S., behind Italy, Germany, Canada, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and Poland.

Large-scale settlement in the U.S. by Mexicans began in earnest in the 1970s. By 1980, Mexico had the largest foreign-born population here with 2.2 million, or more than twice the second-place country (Germany at 850,000). The number of Mexicans immigrants to the U.S. doubled from 1980 to 1990 and more than doubled from 1990 to 2000. While the growth rate of the Mexican immigrant population has slowed considerably since 2006, the total number reached a record 12.7 million in 2008, or almost 17 times the number in 1970. Mexicans make up the largest number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. (7.0 million, or 59%) as well as the largest number of legal immigrants (5.7 million, or 21%).

The current Mexican share of all foreign born living in the U.S.—32%—is the highest concentration of immigrants to the U.S. from a single country since the late 19th century. But it is not unprecedented. Irish immigrants represented a third or more of the immigrant population from 1850 to 1870. Germans were 26% to 30% of the foreign-born population from 1850 to 1900.

As a group, Mexican immigrants are younger than either other immigrants or the U.S.-born population. A higher percentage of them are male than either of the other group, and they are more likely to be married. They are less likely to be U.S. citizens than other immigrants, in part because they are more likely to be unauthorized. Mexicans have lower levels of education, lower incomes, larger households and higher poverty rates than other groups (Tables 1-2). They are slightly more likely to be in the labor force, where they are more likely to work in lower-skilled occupations; they currently have a higher unemployment rate than other immigrants or U.S.-born workers (Table 3).


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