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Originally posted by smooth
I heard Bustamante quote the latest research which indicates that illegal immigrants pay more into the tax base than they use. This is an interesting twist on an old rationale. Usually its poor, black 'breeders' that are accused of leeching the system. I posit that lazy immigrants and ethnic minorities is a cultural myth. While conceding that you will find a few examples of abuse such cases are not the dominant drain on our public money.
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TRUE, but... there are exceptions. What is wasting the tax money is imprisioning the people that A) should not be here, and B) do not pay taxes. At least if we imprision somebody who's paid taxes all their lives, its a little less of a hit, but imprisioning someone to the tune of $30k a year or whatever it costs now who was never supposed to be here in the first place is a gigantic drain. And statistics DO show that a greater number of impoverished people are jailed, so I think its a fair assumption that illegal immigrants, who have very little in the terms of funding, would contribute to a large percentage of this.