Each year, the U.S. imports, through both legal and illegal immigration, hundreds of thousands of additional poor persons from abroad. As a result, one-quarter of all poor persons in the U.S. are now first-generation immigrants or the minor children of those immigrants. Roughly one in ten of the persons counted among the poor by the Census Bureau is either an illegal immigrant or the minor child of an illegal.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/bg2064.cfm
NO WORRIES, NO $10 lettuce
Farming since he was a teenager, Scaroni, 50, built a $50 million business growing lettuce and broccoli in California’s Imperial Valley, relying on the hands of immigrant workers, most of them Mexicans and many probably in the United States illegally.
But early last year he began shifting part of his operation to rented fields here. Now, about 500 Mexicans tend his crops in Mexico, where they run no risk of deportation.
“I’m as American red-blood as it gets,” Scaroni said, “but I’m tired of fighting the fight on the immigration issue.”
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/04/america/export.php