It HAS been proven that illegal immigration costs the taxpayers a TON of money. Not necessarily everybody, and not necessarily on your federal income taxes. In a time of economic crisis, my mortgage payments have been going up about $500 a year for the last several years. That's local property taxes, mostly school taxes. A good chunk of that is influx of people from south of the border, and a chunk of that is hiring bilingual teachers. What gets my panties in a wad is that the feds aren't protecting the border and the states have to pick up the tab. Thats why you're seeing Arizona's new laws. Besides the property taxes, you could take a look at the hospital emergency rooms, programs like WIC and food stamps, and see who's using it here, and its costing somebody a lot of money, and I saved the best for last: look at the jails and prisons here. Not the federal prisons, but the state and counties. Its ridiculous how many Mexican nationals are here getting 3 hots and a cot, not to mention whatever damages or victims they left. When they simply shouldn't be here.
The border is a sieve, by design. I don't mind a few people coming over but its a flood. I don't mind the drugs coming over either, but look at the people bringing them now, and settling into the neighborhoods of our cities.
I don't care about a few bloods and crips shooting it up once in a while, but these new guys are dangerous.
So open those saggy eyelids, maybe with some crystal meth, fresh from Mexico, its been proven they're costing a lot of money.