Really? So trespassers getting free government education, free medical coverage and other welfare is like cutting your lawn?
Doesn’t work
They put more in than they take out.
They work for below market wages with no benefits
LMAO They put more in?? Tell us about their free medical care. Tell us about their kids being educated in out schools. Tell us about all the money they send back to Mexico.
They work for whoever pays them and those that do employ them should face the full extent of the law.
Then there's the cost of prisons. 23% of Federal prisoners are illegal aliens. Not immigrants, that's only counting the ones here illegally. Imagine the cost of that
On the Federal Level (which you provided no link) there really aren't that many prisoners or things the Federal government is over. Immigration is one so that would cause a higher rate but still, you didn't provide it.
An estimated 1,926,390 native‐born Americans, 106,431 illegal immigrants, and 52,424 legal immigrants were incarcerated in 2017.
Criminal Immigrants in 2017: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin
You obviously didn't read it. That is based on the American community survey. It's self reported. What a terrible source of data. And it also says: " local and state governments rarely record whether prisoners are illegal immigrants. "
Also note I said "Federal" and this is not specifically Federal, so you can't expect the data to match.
Also, if you need me to do Google searches for you for basic factual information, I am not quick to do that. But I will if you can reasonably answer the following two questions:
1) What specifically did I say that you don't know?
2) What are you going to do if I find it for you?
Democrats virtually never acknowledge links they asked for. So I want a commitment if I'm going to Google information for you that you didn't know.
I will tell you the source of the information though. Homeland Security. When Trump took office, he ordered them to find out how many illegal aliens were in Federal prisons. Data on prisons in general was virtually non-existent since as your own link pointed out, local and State prisons don't track (or report on) how many illegals are there. Which is why CATO picked the only data they had, self reported census data