There is not the smallest doubt that these immigrants contribute enormously to North American economy -10 billion dollars a year, according to the Academy of Sciences of United States and to the immigrants’ countries of origin.
There is no "North American economy." The writer is using rhetorical sleight of hand, to distract the reader from the fact that illegal immigrants are taking from the American economy, and enriching the Mexican economy. He is also ignoring the fact that the illegals cost the American economy billions annually in unpaid health and educational costs.
For example, the Mexicans who live in this country send more than 8 billion dollars annually in remittances to families in Mexico; this is the third foreign currency source for the country after the tourism and petroleum.
Well, bully for Mexico!
The undocumented immigrants in the United States - 8 million, according to the National Office of the Census- pay taxes, keep inflation under control, are a cheap source of manual labor for agriculture and the service sector, and sustain economically a population that is aging very fast.¨
In other words, the immigrants are a magnificent business for the United States and Latin America. But what is bothersome is that many North Americans continue considering them criminals.
The SOB won't show us the respect of calling us "Americans." But if someone said to him, "So, Mexicans consider illegals criminals?" he'd blow his top. Mexicans are just as much North Americans as are Canadians and Americans, but he's playing word games. (I know what he'd say, "But Latins are also 'Americans.'" Right. I have yet to hear a Latin introduce himself as an "American." They only play that "We're Americans, too," crap, when they want to insult Americans.)
Note that Vincente Fox, for whom illegal Mexicans in America are heroes, ruthlessly stamps out illegal immigration INTO Mexico.
How else will all those drug be shipped in the US and distributed to every American town and city? I haven't heard of anyone's drug supplies drying up.
When they pull up to the pump at their local Amoco station, does the pump recognize them as illegals and deducts taxes from the price of the gallon of gas?