Sure they did. By NOT paying taxes. By scamming every government social program under the sun, free medical care, free schooling, school lunches, free housing via welfare housing programs, free welfare, free food vouchers.
They also contribute to the legal system. Taxpayers pay for their free lawyers, and free housing in prison after their free day in court for : impaired driving, drug dealing, pimping, murder, break and enters, car theft, pimping, cooking crack, smuggling drugs.
Oh yea, real productive members of society they are.
Greenspan, shaddap already you dried up old prune. You've lost control of your faculties. That media prints the nonsense you babble explains why media is going bankrupt. It garbage nobody wants to read. They only buy the odd copy to line bird cages and kitty litter boxes, or to have on hand to get the fireplace fire going.
Bravo!
A great racket. Certain people reap all the economic benefits and the middle class and lower class domestic riffraff pick up the tab economically, tax-wise and socially. But a stable society based on the centuries-old values of American respect for the law provided the environment that made their wealth possible in the first place. But if they destroy the fabric of life for the mass of Americans through massive abetting of law-breaking, their wealth will cannot forever insulate them from the consequences. Even the banana plantation owners had to periodically call in the marines from the home country to keep order. If the homeland becomes a giant banana plantaion, who will they call?