[skeeter]

Allowing taxation of a current class of invisible workers, via medicare and medicaid tax, would increase revenue.

... revenue that would promptly be spent on welfare benefits for the worker's families.

Any way you slice it amnesty will cost us trillions.

[wonkowasright]

I suggest their families are already on welfare to a large extent. I believe, right or wrong, that they would earn more $$ if they were legal and hence would reduce welfare need.

The conservative notion that economy isn’t a static number of jobs and that people will ultimately better themselves.