and a portion of our tax dollars goes to provide them with free medical care and other benefits
Out here in the west most of the drug smuggling is done by mexicans. In looking at the arrest reports in my local newspaper, most of the people getting arrested are mexicans. They cost us much, much more than they ever produce. I'll take my chances with a bunch of unemployed mexicans running around the US. They are ILLEGAL aliens and need to be deported with no delays. In regard to resturant jobs, let american citizens decide if they want to work in resturants. Jobs are hard to come by these days.
That is an excellent point not mentioned in all this. What's going to happen to these illegal aliens when they become unemployed? If they're not deported, many of them may commit crimes against us. Which is why deportation should be a part of the equation. To do that, the SSA is going to have to work with the INS.