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Good post, but the word immigration has to have specifics.
Immigrants to this country come from over 100 countries. Euros, Americas, and others, I ask how many are Mexicans.
Take the budget for immigrants brake it down and find out about the Mexicans, what they cost and figure out, what they contribute and figure out a balance.

PS: Don't forget who feeds us.

"Good post, but the word immigration has to have specifics.
Immigrants to this country come from over 100 countries. Euros, Americas, and others, I ask how many are Mexicans."

Mexicans account for an est. 69% of those numbers.

"PS: Don't forget who feeds us." I don't think anyone has a problem with legal migrant workers and legal immigrants. Quite to the contrary, like the majority of Americans, we all are either immigrants or decedents of immigrants. The issue is illegal immigration and the cost of illegal immigration. All you have to do is ask any legal immigrant who has played by the rules, followed the immigration procedure and waited years to become a citizen what their opinion of illegal immigration is to realize how duplicitous this whole false outrage is that people on this forum try to spread. Illegals pull down the wages, push up the costs of education, welfare, food stamps, law enforcement, prisons and medical care. That's a very high price to pay especially when the dividend for enforcement of the immigration laws would be so much higher! We just cannot afford to be the dumping ground for Vicente Fox any longer. Mexico is a rich country. And with the elimination of the government corruption in Mexico, it can be a vibrant and prosperous country for ALL of it's citizens and the rest of the world.

PS: Don't forget who feeds us

I haven't forgot. Millions of American farmers feed us. As far as who picks the fruits and vegetables, that is unskilled manual labor that we could get foreigners from any of many different countries to come here and do - Chinese, Russians, Pakistanis, Indians, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Africans from countries throughout Africa, etc. Countless foreigners would love the opportunity to improve their situation over how they are currently living in their home countries by coming to the U.S. to pick fruits and vegetables.