You should cite sources that support the costliness of illegal immigration. The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. 1. Welfare: $11 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77 2. Food assistance: $2.2 billion dollars a year are spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http ://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 3. Social services: Add social services to welfare and food assistance and American taxpayers are spending $90 billion dollars a year are spent on illegal aliens. http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html 4. Medicaid: $2.5 billion dollars a year are spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 5. Education: $12 billion dollars a year are spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html 6. Education: $17 billion dollars a year are spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604%20/01/ldt.01.html /01/ldt.01.html 7. Lost wages: Americans lose $200 billion dollars a year in suppressed wages caused by illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 8. Crime: The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html 9. Sex crime: 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States '. http://www.blogger.com/Immigrants%20In%20The%20United%20States%20 10. Incarceration: $3 million dollars per day are spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 11. Incarceration: 30% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 12. Border crossing: During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 million illegal aliens that crossed our southern border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the southern border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht 13. Deportation: The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.' http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf 14. Remittances: In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 billion in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm