Illegal Immigration

I oppose public schools, and so any costs illegals might "add" only help the economy in the long run by exposing the fatal error behind the schools in question and quickening abolition. The same with other entitlements. So entitlements are out of the question for the rest of your argument. Lou Dobbs is full of crap with that prison population figures. Less than 8% of US prisoners are noncitizens, according to the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, a rather credible source on the matter. The economy doesn't consist of "whether the jobs would be done anyway by Americans." The fact is, the jobs done by illegals are done better and/or cheaper by illegals. That means the economy benefits. I don't care whether you say "oh it's just the corporations..." guess what? This computer of yours was made by a corporation. If corporations don't benefit, neither do you. People do not automatically become nonpeople, just by being corporations, and more money in the economy means more money available to invest in new businesses that employ YOU. Socialists like Lou Dobbs have things to learn about what an economy is and how it benefit. And as for the taxpayer argument... Guess what, until we fix the entitlements, everyone, including the taxpayers, is a burden to other taxpayers. That's one of the good things about capitalism, when you get it completely, people aren't seen as a burden. Oh and "prior to 1965, there was very little immigration" is a blatant lie. Maybe for a certain period before that, but not infinitely before that, most people here descend from immigrants. The ancestors of nearly the entire US population somehow don't come across as "very little.' Keep in mind that without the drug laws, most of these illegal alien crimes don't occur. The solution then is not to get rid of the illegal aliens but the drug laws. And if all immigration is legalized, guess what? You get a more accurate sample of the potential immigrants, rather than just the ones willing to break laws. Your "11 to 15%" crap is the worst sort of statistical lie. You are claiming estimated total murders (way above the ones arrests were made for) as a percentage of ARRESTED murders, rather than a percentage of estimated total murders. In other words, Mac Johnson never took a statistics class, nor a logic one. Considering how arrests naturally skew towards "arrest the brown guy" it would be far more rational for Mac Johnson to estimate that, considering how about 2% of murder arrests are of illegal immigrants (the statistics you put above the mac johnson bit), the actual percentage is EVEN LESS. Your stuff on the sex crimes does not compare at all to the total population, and thus is mere pathological argumentation. All of your arguments reek of collectivism, judging everyone in a group by the actions of some. Guess what? Deporting immigrants won't reduce the number of crimes they commit, it will simply give them insulation from US police, until they've built up their little gangs into big gangs into governments come to attack us with armies in the name of their poverty. What is the solution? Capitalism. Free trade, free labor, no immigration laws, people thought of as individuals and earning what they get. No tax-based entitlements for anyone to drain. When there are too many people, don't ship the problem somewhere else when you know they'll ship it back, just stop reproducing so much.