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As cited by Pat Buchanan in his book STATE OF EMERGENCY (2006) on the border crisis, there were at that time approximately 3 million births a year in the U.S., and of those, 300,000 were "anchor babies".
A full 10% of all births.
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Further, in today's news on FBI and DHS cases against agencies that facilitate connecting illegal immigrants to enter the country and in a fraudulent marriage for 3 years just to get a green card (for up to $100,000 each) , and soliciting American ciizens to ener hese false marriages for a standard paymen to hem of $30,000. hey are invesigaing 120 cases so far. And hey esimae the number of fraudulentt illegal sham marriages is about 250,000 nationally per year.
And each creates a path toward ciizenship for these illegal, and also for their extended families : parents, grandparents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, cousins..
And then a path toward citizenship, and welfare benefi\ts, for each of them, and all THEIR extended family.
Buchanan cites in he California area (as of 2006) in California 10 hospitals alone had been forced to close down because of massive unpaid hospital bills. Including the cost of hundreds of thousands of unpaid child delivery bills.
Probably a cost of even more annually now.