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Article: Illegal Immigration Costs New Yorkers More Than $5 Billion a Year Finds New Study by FAIR.
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- September 20, 2006
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- While local politicians, like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, go out of their way to shield illegal aliens, the Empire State's taxpayers are stuck with a $5.1 billion a year bill, finds a new study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The $5.1 billion annual price tag associated with illegal immigration, according to the report, The Costs of Illegal Immigration to New Yorkers, covers the costs of only three basic state-provided services: K-12 education, publicly funded health care, and incarceration of illegal aliens who have committed other crimes after settling in New York. In 2005, some 645,000 illegal ...