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The illegals undoubtedly boost the economy.

They present a massive draw upon it in the areas of healthcare welfare and medicaid to the tune of a negative balance. They wash dishes more cheaply than locals would, benefiting anybody who ever goes to a restaurant.

Well here in Illinois, the fourth most affected state by illegal immigration, my brother was washing dishes at chili's restaraunt making less money per hour than the mexicans that were cooking. The same mexicans that bragged about being here illegally. Without these folks here more Americans would be working and more would have money to go to a restaraunt.

Without Mexicans, vegetables would go unpicked

BWAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA whatever! Cmon now. There is no validity in that statement.

and nursing homes would be filthy.

My wife would take offense and beg to differ with this statement. As a CNA for more than a decade, she would offer you some other reasons for why nursing homes are the way they are.

Oh yeah, I'm white, so is my brother and so is my wife.

According to the Pew Hispanic Centre, nearly 500,000 unskilled migrants arrive every year to do the kind of strenuous, low-paid jobs that Americans shun. Yet the United States issues only 5,000 visas a year for unskilled foreigners seeking year-round work.

What a bunch of clap-trap and not a word about the costs of illegal immigration-- dumbed-down schools, balkanized neighborhoods, crowded emergency rooms, and third-world diseases which were once though eradicated.

So because the demand for visas is around 500,000 and the supply around 5,000, is the author suggesting we are supposed to automatically increase the supply to accomodate the demand? Does anyone but a nimrod doubt that if we did so, the demand would increase to 1, 2 or 10 million annually?

As a soverign country, do we not have the right to pick and choose the sources, quality and, yes, even numbers of our legal immigrants? Does Mexico, with many neighborhoods devoid of working age population, have no obligation to grow its own economy and provide jobs? If so, maybe some of their emmigrants should be shipped to Europe, home of this news rag, where they can displace North African Muslims and other unemployables on that continent.

As for myself, if America needs more immigrants (and I think we do), I'd rather see a few more from places like Korea, the Philippines, India and Taiwan who have shown a demonstrated willingness to assimilate into American society and learn and respect our language and culture and a few less from places which have, with some noteworthy exceptions, simply sought to replace it with the third-world cultures from whence they came.