[jackbenimble]

The cost of the services is offset by taxes collected on wages that are never refunded. If they are illegals, they also lose every bit of FICA.

Not even close! That is the Tamar Jacoby deception where she tries to talk about the contributions without tallying the costs. Read this: The High Cost of Cheap Labor

You seem remarkably uninformed about illegal immigration. Perhaps you should sit back and listen for a while and learn something.

[A.Hun]

I'll be happy to look that over, but I'll probably find the same twisted statistics as usual.

I believe I am as well informed as any average person. I don't claim to have any cures, just tired of the non stop bashing of Bush when he is trying to do something about a nearly intractable problem.

Most of the griping on this thread boils down to ..get rid of Mexicans. That isn't going to happen.

Thanks for the reasonable discussion.