Are Immigrants Really Freeloaders?

[display name 4,360]

between 8 and 12 million ... I would trust that estimate.  Most of the latin American demographic is going to California,Arizona and Nevada...shoot I don't need to do any study personally, just go to LA or Vegas or Phoenix and travel thru some of the residential areas and tell me if you see any white people.

I live in Vegas, and most of the people in my neighborhood and in several of those around me are white. 

I get what you're saying though and can't refute your whole point, especially in regard to California.

[theMonster5 74]

Illegal immigrants use more resources and make the states worse off overall. Let's look at CA, for example, with 2.8 million illegal immigrants. First off, we have a drought in CA, so the illegals are wasting 224 MILLIONS gallons of water PER DAY. So just deporting 50% of the illegals could solve the CA drought problem. We only need maybe 100K illegals to work in the farms and doing low-paying jobs that legal residents don't want (dishwashing, carwashing, cleaning), but even legal residents are doing those jobs. So we don't need that extra 2.7 million illegals in CA since we only need 100K of them. They are wasting BILLIONS of $ by going to our schools and cause our rents and housing to be 25% to 40% higher because of demands. Illegal family of five use more taxes than they put in. The three kids alone cost taxpayers over $30K a year in public schooling while the family may make $40K/year and pay maybe $4K in taxes annually. We have too many illegals and need to deport at least 50% to make America better.

[DrewStevens 5,249]

"http://itepnet.org/"

This was done by a real organization ... estimates are based on accrued data recovered by research and not guessing.

This wasn't done by the ITEP, they took some information from them to write this Yahoo article. The study was done by the conservative organization CIS (Center for Immigration Studies). This report has omitted some things that would have changed the statistics drastically. 

They are quite famous for being biased against immigrants, but mostly Hispanics and Asians. They even have said that all job growth since 2000 went to immigrants which is completely false and many other organizations criticized them for this "report".

CIS was founded by John Tanton who also founded other two anti-immigrant organizations. FAIR, on of these three anti-immigrant organizations have had eployees who were part of white supremacist groups and the organization itself had links with a hate group that called black people "a retrograde species of humanity". An organization that believes blacks are genetically less intelligent than whites (Pioneer Fund) helped him to found his first organization (FAIR).

John Tanton has always promoted a passive form of eugenics. He believes that America needs a European-American racial majority to keep it's culture.

Illegal immigration is obviously a problem but this kind of reports are just made to create hate towards immigrants in general.

The ITEP even says: "Undocumented immigrants already are paying billions in taxes to state and local governments, and if they are allowed to work in the country legally, their state and local tax contributions will increase significantly"