If you don't count services to American citizens children of illegals, are they paying more in taxes...?
374683
Illegal immigrants do not pay taxes!  Most work for cash under the table but those that do get a check and USE a social security number fill out their W-2s with so many dependents(whether they exist or not) that very little or no taxes are taken out of their checks.
861724
This is a non bias answer. No you should not be charged for this , but our government actually give these people more rights than they give Americans so what does that say about our government????? Basically it is hurray for the illegals that actually get over here and get in our system and they, the government will actually help them get thier citizenship. I say run over them all......!
318628
maybe.  and they shouldn't. it's not fair for legal immigrants and for american citizens.
326946
yes, i know that. i wish the government would do something about it already.\n\ni know an illegal family from mexico. him and his sister collect ssi and medicaid. they are under fake names but i do not know how they are getting all of this.
609310
It is so ridiculous that congressmen are using statistics when debating on immigration, our economy and the illegals. I saw a show yesterday on MSNBC and they covered the false statistics being thrown by politicians; in particular that it costs 8 billion a year to "support" public assistance, health care, etc. which goes to illegal immigrants; researchers discovered that the same illegals are contributing $7.5 billion each year to our economy, so our tax money isn't funding that much in reality.  Why aren't they informing us about that?  For the same reason that there is the saying, "there are two sides to every story!" We are definitely contributing more money to the war in Iraq, than any other "program".
1147142
I'm sorry you think so... then again, all the quiet, hard-working illegals carry the fruit and vegetable market and a lot of the worst jobs in the U.S. And if you're ever been a legal foreigner (don't worry, I got out) in the U.S., you'd know they take it out on us. Tax for many foreigners is a solid 30%, even if you're sub-poverty.\nThe problem isn't with how the U.S. treats the immigrants (pretty badly, actually). The problem is that they don't take care of their military vets. But the two problems are not related. Or they are, in the sense that you have a government that doesn't care for people in general.\nP.S. The bulk of illegals get no education, health care, or a cent of public help. I was legal, paid more taxes than many Americans, and I still wasn't eligible for any public services. They really are NOT stealing your money, I promise.
619502
Why are the law-abiding American citizens being blamed for "tearing up families"?  We are not the ones leaving children behind, the illegal immigrants are.  They do have a choice - go through the legal process to come here legally like so many generations before them did, or break the law.  They choose to break the law then think they should get special treatment and rewarded for it.
1001884
Its costing us BILLIONS of dollars right now every year, so in ten years you can count on more taxes to pay of Illegals. Its our childrens children who will be paying unless something can be done about it.  I believe it was 1986 when amnesty was given to about 3 million illegal immigrants and the U.S. government promised it would not happen again.  Write to your senators and ask them the same question.
322311
From what I've heard, a lot of illegal immigrants are law-abiding, tax-paying citizens.  Law-abiding except for the illegal immigration, of course.
494032
as a former caseworker YES they do. Let me break it down, the federal government has a program called TANF which gives a monthly stipend to people on welfare as long as they participate in training or some form of education. It is received for a limited time depending on the state. If you dont participate, you don't get a check. Illegal immigrant mothers can receive the money only for their children and they are not required to do anything for this monthly stipend. Its free money for them, same thing with food stamps which many illegal immigrants get also, the welfare application even states that their information will not be shared with the department of homeland security.
397657
No. Employing undocumented aliens is illegal, so if you deduct those costs it's called tax fraud.
883079
I think the issue is that they aren't paying most taxes.  (You pay taxes to America every time you buy something...)
851824
We don't want to pay for their education at the expense of services for our own people.  That is why we have immigration limits to begin with.
446740
No. If they don't have a social security number or any paperwork showing they are awaiting one, they do not go through court and waste the taxpayers money. They are deported. Any immigrant who has earned citizenship knows how important it his to have verification.
1079219
no, i don't think it is fair for people without children to pay school taxes.  people choose to have children and that comes with the responsibility of educating those children.\n\nthose with children already get income tax breaks just for having children; they should have to pay the school tax for their own children.  those of us without children get penalized twice for not having children (higher income tax and still paying school taxes).
1064570
There're not a bargin for the American taxpayers.Illegal alien workers may increase profits for employers, but they are costly to the American taxpayer. Most illegal aliens have low educational attainment, few skills, and they work for low wages, often in the underground economy where they pay no taxes on their earnings. Since about three million illegal aliens gained legal status in the amnesty of 1986, the flow of illegal immigration has increased, and today that population is estimated at 9-11 million illegal alien residents in the country. The former Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that the illegal alien population was increasing by about half a million aliens per year in 2000. \n\n\nBecause the number of illegal aliens can only be estimated, similarly the fiscal cost (government budget outlays) for those aliens can only be estimated. Dr. Donald Huddle, a Rice University economics professor, published a systematic analysis of those costs as of 1996. The study also estimated the tax payments of those same aliens. \n\nAt that time, the illegal alien population was estimated to be about five million persons. The estimated fiscal cost of those illegal aliens to the federal, state and local governments was about $33 billion. This impact was partially offset by an estimated $12.6 billion in taxes paid to the federal, state and local governments, resulting in a net cost to the American taxpayer of about $20 billion every year. This estimate did not include indirect costs that result from unemployment payments to Americans who lost their jobs to illegal aliens willing to work for lower wages. Nor did it include lost tax collections from those American workers who became unemployed. The study estimated those indirect costs from illegal immigration at an additional $4.3 billion annually. \n\nStill think we're getting a bargin?
411589
It's the old story, there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Why do you think the Bush administation spouts an endless list of numbers when they are asked a substantive question?\n\nNo, AFDC and food stamps are not the same. No, SSI is not the same as Social Security.\n\nAnd people forget that many of these "illegal immigrants" pay taxes from which they actually will never get any benefit, a gift to the rest of us who benefit from their money.\n\nWhat intrigues me most is that the politicians keep saying there are fewer people paying into Social Security than are being paid by Social Security. If we let in all the immigrants, wouldn't that problem be solved?.