migration costs reached $65 billion and the costs continue to rise steeply, the most recent estimates place the costs of post-1969 immigrants at $65 billion in 1996 alone $40.5 billion from legal immigrants and $24.5 billion from illegal immigrants (‘The Costs of Immigration“, 1996). By the governmental studies in ten years by the year 2006, the annual net costs of immigration would rise to $108 billion that would by 66 percent higher than the costs in 1996. The net national cumulative costs for the decade 1997-2006 for all post-1969 immigrants will be $866 billion, an average of almost $87 billion a year (‘The Costs of Immigration“, 1996). Some estimates are even higher. A 1995 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, based on the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation, analyzed the costs of immigrants based on their overall tax contribution, their share of overall government expenditures, and their specific use of means-tested welfare. They found that the total immigrant net deficit in 1996 came to $80.4 billion (‘The Costs of Immigration“, 1996). That annual amount is sure to grow as the population of legal and illegal immigrants, now at 25 million, receives over a million new people every year.The next issue of concern is that immigrants fills up already overcrowded urban areas. The overpopulation is a complex problem and many people think, especially the opposition of immigration that it is caused by the enormous increase of the immigrant population in large cities since these attract immigrants coming to the United States because these are the best places to start work or live in foreign country. Growth of population ills the U.S. cities as these are becoming violent, overcrowded and with small number of work opportunities for low and middle classes Americans. In big metropolitan areas are living 3 out of 4 immigrants in contrast to 1 out of 2 natives liv...
