[xzins]

From the article:

“The debate about the fiscal consequences of unlawful and low-skill immigration is hampered by a number of misconceptions. Few lawmakers really understand the current size of government and the scope of redistribution… Unlawful immigrants, on average, are always tax consumers; they never once generate a ‘fiscal surplus’ that can be used to pay for government benefits elsewhere in society.”

[Gamecock]

But they do the jobs Americans won't do! </sarc>

[Vigilanteman]

My sister in Houston told me that the best money the city ever spent was buying one-way airline tickets for the Katrina refugees camped out in the Astrodome.

All of the job placement agencies, social services and others sent there to help them find permanent housing or other arrangements had barely managed to move 10% of the campers out in more than two months.

Once the airline ticket program was announced, 90% of those remaining cleared out within 30 days.