Houston Chronicle: U.S. Economy Needs Immigrants to Grow

Half of unauthorized workers even file tax returns, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Many believe it will help them qualify some day for amnesty and legal residency, which is how DACA worked for the Dreamers.

Even with 8 million unauthorized workers already here, more than half of American employers say they expect to hire employees from outside the U.S. in 2018, according to the Immigration Trends Report, a survey conducted for Envoy, an international human relation firm, by The Harris Poll. Read more