It's easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they're all put together and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot of research to put together all this data. Often these programs are buried within other programs making it difficult to findeach of them.

The following 11 reasons should be forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the readers gets sick of reading them. Included are the URL's for verification of all the following facts. 1 . $11 Billion to $22 Billion is spent on welfare to illegal immigrants each year by state governments. Verify At: http://www.fairus.org/site/Pag eServer?pagename=iic_ immigrati onissuecenters7fd8 < http://www.fairus.org/site/ Pag eServer? pagename=iic_immigrati onissuecenters7fd8 >
2 . $22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food Assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal immigrants. Verify At:
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3 . $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal immigrants. Verify At:

http://www.cis.org/articles/20 04/fiscalexec.HTML The High Cost of Cheap Labor | Center for Immigration Studies www.cis.org About the Author Steven A. Camarotais Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. He holds a master's degree in political science
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4 . $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on Primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify At: http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRA NscriptS/0604/01/ldt ... 0.HT ML < http://transcripts.cnn.com/ T RA NscriptS/0604/01/ldt ... 0.HT ML > 5 . $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for Education for the American-born Children of illegal immigrants, known as Anchor babies. Verify At: http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRA NscriptS/0604/01/ ldt.01.HT ML < http://transcripts.cnn.com/ T RA NscriptS/0604/01/ ldt.01.HT ML

6 . $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal immigrants. Verify At:
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7 . 30% percent of all Federal Prison Inmates are illegal immigrants. Verify At:
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8 . $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on Illegal immigrants for Welfare & Social Services by the American taxpayers. Verify At: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCI PTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML < http://premium.cnn.com/ TRANSCI PTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML >

9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal immigrants. Verify At: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA NSCRI < http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRA NSCRI >

10 . In 2006, illegal immigrants sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their Countries of origin. Verify At: .
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11. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes committed By Illegal Immigrants In The United States . Verify At: http:
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THE TOTAL COST IS $338.3 BILLION A YEAR. SINCE THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 135 MILLION TAXPAYERS IN THE UNITED STATES,OVER $2,500.00 OF YOUR TAXES GO TO FUNDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

Would you be willing to bet on that? No place in your link does Appalachia even come into play. Nowhere.I've seen tent cities where hundreds if not thousands live,families with children along with veterans. It is not a pretty sight, but is all they have and know. Does anyone actually think these folks chose the circumstances they are in?
Nope they didn't! Worse yet when many do or venture out of camp to attempt to locate work to support family,
they get shunned by surrounding areas so in conclusion homelessness is very real.try to wrap your mind around this simple but pitiful truth. I dare ya!
None here could or would possibly understand without seeing it first hand.

Here is one of the best articles I have read about homelessness and they do not cite 700.000 adults, families or children as being homeless. Could an overstatement of the problem be justification for someones' jobs?

http://mic.com/articles/83315/6-myths-and-1-truth-about-homelessness-in-the-united-states#.GOhAwygC5

Don't get me wrong...I am all for helping the poor, especially the homeless. But let's be honest about the situation.

Read on down in this article and it agrees with the numbers cited...

http://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-report/

What I don't understand are those, especially politicians that blame homelessness on being addicted, lazy or by choice and want to cut off funding that should help the homeless if it weren't for the incompetent bureaucracies and do-gooders.