The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Opinion: Illegal immigration is a non-issue
media mention“Illegal immigrants have also not been shown to use social services or public assistance programs any more than the average person. If anything, immigrants here illegally actually use social services less than most people, as some studies have shown. As the ACLU points out, many welfare programs require some duration of time as a legal citizen to qualify, and this can actually lead to illegal immigrants paying taxes without seeing all the benefits legal citizens enjoy. A study done by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that over 70 percent of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. last year paid a collective total of $11 billion in taxes.”