Let us examine your meme about the cost of illegals. First, they do cost a great deal of money and most of their wages are not stimulating our economy, they send the vast majority of their funds back to their own country. Illegals have a tendency to shelter together, sometimes as many as 20 men have been found living in a 2 or 3 bedroom apartment. This is economically favorable for them, but does not help our housing market and will drive down prices in the neighborhood. Then comes the expense for law enforcement, these neighborhoods demand additional patrols to ensure some sense of safety for those living in the area. This may be perception only on the part of permanent residence, but they demand the extra force to feel safe. Couple this with medical care and education.... We hit a figure close to $335,000,000,000 dollars a year. Now deduct what Liberals say they pay in taxes, which is 19,000,000,000 and you can see... we still subsidize those illegals to the tune of $114,000,000,000 a year. This is not all federal money, state and local governments are getting ravaged by the costs, at over $88 billion. The federal government, by comparison, is getting off easy at $45 billion in costs for illegals.

I hear you, but they pay taxes! The taxes collected are only on those who are not underground, meaning they supply a SSN, even if it is stolen or forged, the money is taken out of their wages. But, FAIR noted that 35 percent of the illegal population operate in an underground economy hidden from tax collectors. Ranchers love these guys, they can be found hanging out at the 7/11 or most home improvement stores. The rancher drives by, announces how many he needs, they hop into the truck.....and away they go for the day. The rancher can work them like old mules, pay them in cash and not have to report them as employees that reduces their tax obligation and the illegal has a few hundred dollars that he can send 75 percent back to his country....tax free.

I know you are going to say that I pulled these number out from under my arm, but they are actually taken from a pro-immigration organizations.... Federation for American Immigration Reform and The Fiscal Burden Of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers. It is clear that price for their support and upkeep will not shrink, this year, estimated an additional 3,000,000,000 will be needed to maintain their standard of living.

Imagine the improvement in schools, imagine if there was a student to teacher ratio of 15 to 1 instead of 30 plus to 1. That hospital that needs new equipment. Roads that one could drive on without damage to your car or better yet, safe bridges. Imagine..... if the US did not put out so much money to support the illegals. Yes, this is "selfish" in the eyes of some, but there comes a time when you have to choose, feed and shelter the world... or your hungry children, elderly, and homeless Americans.

So... do we need to reform immigration and do we need the wall? And, by the way.... I can find no report, leaked or otherwise that supports your meme.

Why are you so opposed to professional Journalist as opposed to attention seeking wanna bees who after they tell you what they want you to think is true, they offer to sell you a book sayting the same thing..

News services, some of whom have been in business for century or more, depend on a reputation for truth and accurate reporting to stay in their position..

they report less slanted articles then those which are pushing an agenda which will enrich themselves and fellow members..

You should look with a bit of logic at those who only call other names and produce no meaningful facts..

http://www.e-ir.info/2015/01/03/review-us-arms-policies-towards-the-shahs-iran/

the us canceled the last order of plains, not Iran. the US also stopped delivery of spare parts which proved very successful in limiting the use of this plains in later years.

the price was negotiated as it always is. Plains are not purchased from a catalog..

The supply of arms from the US started to climb in 1953 after Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup engineered by the British and American intelligence services. The Iranian shah, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, returned from exile to rule and become a close ally of the US.

According to a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations staff report in 1976, Iran was the largest single purchaser of US military equipment then. Military sales had increased more than sevenfold from $524 million in 1972 to $3.91 billion in 1974.

SIPRI data shows that the amount rose and peaked in 1977.

(Note: The import values shown in the chart are not actual transaction price. They are measured using a common unit formulated by the SIPRI called trend-indicator value expressed in US dollars at constant 1990 prices to allow comparison and identification of general trends.)

The staff report stated that in 1972 President Richard Nixon and his then-national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, agreed for the first time to “sell Iran virtually any conventional weapons it wanted.” With its oil revenue, Iran acquired some of the most sophisticated US military equipment and received training and technical assistance from American personnel.

The US-Iran alliance collapsed in 1979 when the shah's authoritarian rule led to riots, protests and eventually the Iranian Revolution. The shah was again forced into exile. An Islamic fundamentalist force, led by anti-American cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, took power and turned Iran into an Islamic republic.

US arms export to Iran was ceased abruptly and earlier orders canceled after Islamic militants took 52 Americans hostage inside the US embassy in Tehran in November 1979.

If you click the zoom-in button on the chart above to focus on the period from 1980 to 2015, you'll notice the US still sold a small amount of weapons to Iran between 1984 to 1986. According to SIPRI database, those are arms were sold covertly and illegally by the US with the help of Israel despite an arms embargo against the Iran.

The US attempted to secure the release of hostages in Lebanon through the clandestine arms deals. The proceeds from the sales were used to fund guerrillas fighting against the left-wing government in Nicaragua in an effort to stop the spread of socialism in Latin America. The scandal would later known as the Iran-Contra affair.