Texans join Arizona and other Americans in reviewing the facts about illegal immigration (health care, illegal immigrants)
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The National Academy of Sciences estimated that each illegal immigrant costs about $100,000 net annual cost to taxpayers.
The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C. based think tank estimate future costs for illegal immigrants in the United States will reach a half a trillion dollars.
The influx of illegal immigrants has successfully "imported about 10 million high school dropouts into the United States," said Robert Rector, a senior research fellow in welfare and family issues Heritage Foundation.
Rector warns that illegal immigrants strain education and health care budgets.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., the committee's chairman, said hospitals in the Southwestern United States are losing $190 million annually per year for uncompensated health care from illegal immigrants.
“Nineteen percent of federal inmates are not citizens,” Sensenbrenner said.