The Effects of Illegal Immigraion

When it comes to illegal immigration, it is not a question of "Is it a problem?" but of "How big of a problem is it?" Here are some of the latest stats:

21,205,690 illegal immigrants,
524,784 OTM illegals in the country
$41,877,283,378 dollars wired to Mexico since January 2006
$334,010,860,071 dollars wired to Latin America since 2001
$397,479,996,334 dollars worth of Social Services for illegal immigrants since 1996
4,177,718 children of illegals in public schools
$14,800,975,889 dollars spent on illegals in grades K-12 since 1996
350,506 illegal immigrants incarcerated
$1,474,753,271 dollars worth of incarcerations since 2001
662,701 illegal immigrant fugitives
2,141,717 anchor babies born since 2002
10,221,141 skilled jobs taken by illegal immigrants

With numbers like these a solution must be found, and granting amnesty is not an option. The government needs to set up a stricter boarder patrol, some sort of physical barrier (like a fence), and speed up the naturalization process so that citizens of other countries will actually go through due process and not just skip to the end.

Source:
Illegal Immigration Counters." Immigration Counters. 7 Nov. 2007. 11 Nov. 2007 .