[metmom]

"Illegal immigrants paying social security taxes into accounts they will never be able to collect, thereby subsidizing a system that is in danger of collapsing"

Great trade off for all the welfare, food stamps, health care, and education they cost us, not to mention the gang and drug issues and clogging up our criminal justice system.

[ndt]

"Great trade off for all the welfare, food stamps, health care, and education"

And those services are paid for by... taxes thats right, the very things we are talking about them paying.

Depending on which of several studies you choose to read, it is a net benefit.