The Cost of Illegal Immigration 2

Tallglassofmilk begins to count the cost of illegal immigration to the California taxpayer and doesn't even mention the non-monetary externalities. She arrives at the figure of $10.5 billion per year, but neglects the hours of productivity lost due to traffic, the additional burden on our infrastructure, the hundreds of murders per year along with other less serious crimes like rape and robbery, and so forth and so on. Is the federal government going to reimburse the family of slain Oakland police officer William Seuis, who was run over by an illegal alien?

The weakness of democracy is that the majority can vote to impose costs on the minority. The rest of the country can afford to ignore illegal immigration (and even encourage it) because most of the costs are absorbed by California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas; consider it a "progressive tax" on nice weather.