Reports and StudiesThe High Cost of Cheap Labor - Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget, By Steven A. Camarota, Center for Immigration Studies, August, 2004. (A new browser window will open). A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies is one of the first to estimate the impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Based on Census Bureau data, the study estimates that households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they paid in taxes in 2002. These figures are only for the federal government; costs at the state and local level are also likely to be significant. The study also finds that if illegals were given amnesty, the fiscal deficit at the federal level would grow to nearly $29 billion. (See more conclusions). Visa Overstays - a growing problem for law enforcement, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, October 16, 2003. Summary: We have 2.3 million visa overstays and the government believes that is an underestimate. We have set up a National Security Entrance and Exit Registration System (NSEERS) and less than 2% of the illegal overstays are arrested and only then if they are of the 'targeted' group (page 8 per Dr. Nancy Kingsbury, US Governmental Accounting office, Washington DC). We had over 4,000 illegal aliens that processed security badges and work at our airports (page 13). Additional sources of reports, books and articles on
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