"If we continue to host millions of citizens of Mexico, we must request reimbursement or compensation from the Mexican government for services rendered. First, we’ll need to determine what we’re spending to provide health care, welfare and education, and other services to non-United States citizens. By conducting actuarial studies to determine how much each state and the nation spends to provide healthcare, welfare and education for citizens of Mexico, an invoice can be produced and sent to the Mexican government."[1]
Mexico has forever refused to let the United States armies get involved on their side of the border, and still do to this day. What if Mexico were to pick up the tab, as the author puts it? How much would Mexico be paying for?
According to Dallian Kimble, Mesa Economy Policy Examiner, the cost varies.
“There are others who have attempted to estimate the costs of illegal immigration. Lou Dobbs once shared his projection that illegal immigration was costing Americans $100 billion annually, for example. The Center for Immigration Studies, on the other hand, published a study just this week that estimated the costs of illegal immigration at around $10 billion each year.
Again, the variation in these estimates is a reminder that it is hard, if not impossible, to know exactly how much Americans are paying out for illegal immigrants. That said, any issue that costs $10 billion or more annually deserves the attention of policymakers, especially in tough financial times.” [2]
Comments: Whether it is 10 billon or 100 billion dollars, the cost doesn’t matter. If Mexico were to pick up this cost from the American people, then there is no telling what would happen to the economy of both our nations. Citizen frustration has grown to near a breaking point when it comes to illegal immigration, and the best course of action for the federal government needs to be a concise, specific, and well funded border security program implemented along each of the states along the U.S border.
Does Mexico need to pick up the tab? As helpful as it may sound for the United States, it would not benefit this nation in the long run, because Mexico would lose money for trading and importing goods from the U.S, and therefore break our economy further. For now, the only solution for both nations may actually lie in working together.