[Vigilanteman]

Absolutely. If you check into what some of these fiscal types have said in the past, illegals were such a great deal for all of us because they would pay into social security in their productive years and not be around to collect it.

Like they would all just magically go back to Mexico or El Salvador or whatever as soon as they retired.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I’ve never said they were a great deal - would never say that. But I think the other extreme....that every illegal with a job is taking a job from willing Americans...and that none of them pay taxes.....are just as wrong.

The truth, observed for over 20 years as a contractor hiring in the unskilled and semi skilled outside labor trades - is somewhere in the middle of those two extreme misinterpretations. The truth just is.....

The real cancer are those who are here for the gimmes. Those are far far far more damaging to the country....