[staytrue]

"But they also will send $5.2 billion home to their native countries this year," And that's NOT a drain on the American economy????

IT IS IN FACT A TREMENDOUS BOON TO THE US

And here is why. Suppose all the working men in the US sent their children, wives and elderly to mexico and just worked at their job in the US. No more taxes for schools, medicare, social security, etc. and then you could sent one tenth that amount to support them in Mexico.

A working man probably needs 100,000 a year to keep a family in the US, but could do it on 40,000 if he shipped them off to Mexico and sent them money instead.

[BenLurkin]

So you suggest that millions of Americans send their family to a foreign land and then send them money? That just doesn't seem at all practical or reasonable.

Let's just send the illegals back and keep our $5 billion.