@Advocate,
Come Advocate... do you really think you can get away with this.
The article you linked (if you actually read the whole argument) was attempting to represent both sides. They FAIR as a anti-immigrant group making the claim you are making. Then they had voices from the other side that you seem to have ignored.
You cherry picked your claim from this part of the article.
Quote:The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a conservative advocacy group that favors tighter immigration laws, argues that the answer is clear: illegal aliens cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion each year.
Of course from the same article (which you conveniently ignore) is this quote from a pro-immigrant group (which, incidentally is not listed as a hate group by the SPLC).
Quote:
"Illegal immigrants are good for our economy," says IPC's Sefsaf. "They make our labor force and our economy bigger. Sure, you could kick them all out, but then you would have to shrink the economy."
Sefsaf also doesn't buy the traditional argument that illegal immigrants are stealing U.S. jobs: most legal residents work in middle-rung jobs and would not want to take low-paying jobs as fruit pickers or nannies.
After weighing the financial pros against the cons, she says the U.S. economy comes out slightly ahead due to the presence of illegal aliens.
What is interesting is that FAIR, the source of the argument you are trumpeting is a John Tanton group. It is listed by the SPLC as a hate group.
Quote:The Southern Poverty Law Center lists FAIR as a hate group for reasons including its accepting of funds from the racist Pioneer Fund. Other reasons include Stein’s bigoted views, the participation of some of its officials in white supremacist groups, bigots on the board, and some of its television programming. For a brief summation of this reasoning, please go here.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/12/the-fair-files-working-with-the-pioneer-fund/
Your argument would be much stronger if you could make it without relying on hate groups.
