Well, this is what I know about Immigrants, regardless of whether they are illegal or not, immigrants are more of a drain to society than an asset. He wants to try and explain away their presence as though they were filling necessary economic niches which would otherwise never be filled, but he is wrong. Just to find a verifable online source, I took my stats from the Center For Immigration Studies.
"The poverty rate for immigrants is 50 percent higher than that of natives, with immigrants and their U.S.-born children (under age 21) accounting for 22 percent of all persons living in poverty."
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They comprise nearly a fifth of our poor, which is not anywhere near proportional to their total population presence.
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"The percentage of immigrants without a high school diploma is 30 percent, more than three times the rate for natives. Also, of all persons without a high school education, one-third are now immigrants. Immigrants are also slightly more likely than natives to have a graduate or professional degree. "
"One-third of immigrants do not have health insurance — two and one-half times the rate for natives. Immigrants who arrived after 1989 and their U.S.-born children account for 60 percent or 5.5 million of the increase in the size the uninsured population."
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Now this is a winning combination, but hey, its alright, because we need more unskilled labourers in a post-industrialized economy which is increasingly being driven by specialized and educated workers.
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