Sounds like fuzzy math from the anti-immigration lobby. Show me that stats and I'll show others that contradict them.
Over and over we are asked to prove that migrants (by far the most numerous are Mexican citizens) living here who IMO have no intention of ever becoming U.S. citizens (a.k.a., "cheap labor") cost U.S. taxpayers money, lots of money.
"The High Cost of Cheap Labor, Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget" is just one of many studies we cite. To what avail?
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscal.pdf (Note that this is a PDF file)
Center for Immigration Studies
Even the MSM, for example the Washington Post, accept CIS as a legitimate organization and publish reports about CIS studies. If you do not accept CIS please give some reasons why.
Now, who is the socialist? The business owner dependent upon the government to support his "cheap labor" workers or the taxpayers demanding that we enforce our immigration laws?