MonxDoT wrote:
11 million people stealing education (making everyone else's education lower quality), stealing welfare benefits (making everyone else poorer with less money), and clogging up the health care system (making everyone else's health care lower quality), is a problem.
All 11 million illegal immigrants are in school? Who knew?
Actually, unless the immigrants brought their existing children over with them, the bulk of the children of illegal immigrants have birthright citizenship and therefore are not "stealing" anything.
As an aside, illegal immigrants who use fraudulent Social Security numbers pay into the system via payroll taxes but are not eligible to receive benefits. According to the
New York Times:
As the debate over Social Security heats up, the estimated seven million or so illegal immigrant workers in the United States are now providing the system with a subsidy of as much as $7 billion a year.
While it has been evident for years that illegal immigrants pay a variety of taxes, the extent of their contributions to Social Security is striking: the money added up to about 10 percent of last year's surplus - the difference between what the system currently receives in payroll taxes and what it doles out in pension benefits. Moreover, the money paid by illegal workers and their employers is factored into all the Social Security Administration's projections.