The history of immigration in this country is the history of labor. When we need labor, we let people in. When we don't need them, we ship them out (previously through racial prejudice, like taking away citizenship from American born children of American born parents of Chinese origin).

If you throw up a ton of road blocks, charge fees no one can afford, but still pay for labor, you can hardly complain when people find a way. If you hire them, they will come. That simple.

I don't know the actual numbers, but I believe MTI is right - most immigrants do pay taxes, including into SS which they can never collect. Most of them get paid by paycheck, with taxes already taken out.

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