Originally Posted by woj

being able to locate a study that supports your opinion doesn't make you "right"... like I said, it's debatable...

for starters there isn't anything particularly unique about "illegals"... they happen to work in low income industries, and so the taxes they pay are limited... but same can be said about ANY low income worker, independent of their legal status, race, etc...

so if "illegals" are a "burden", then ANY low income worker is a "burden" too... "illegals" account for perhaps 3% of US population and according to your study "cost" everyone else 100B or so... but total percentage of low income families is perhaps 20-25%...

how do you feel about the other ~20% "parasites" (for lack a of better word) that cost everyone according to your study's conclusions 700B or more? Could it be the case that the study is flawed and that ~20% of US population are not actually "parasites" like the study implies? Maybe the study fails to take some contributions by low income workers, which include "illegals", into account?