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How much "wrong" can you cram into one post?As for the adult immigrants nowadays (which are most of them), their home countries have already spent $$ educating them. So essentially we are getting them "free". That is, we get their labor having paid nothing for their education. That makes up for whatever $$ we might spend on any social services some of them might need.
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The reason why they cross illegally is because there is no way they can apply legally that is not 10 years long.
Migrants smuggled across the border between Mexico and the United States pay about $2,000, while migrants from beyond Mexico (and thus needing to cross multiple borders) could pay as much as $10,000. (These are not poor illiterate people
The stereotype of the illiterate, poor and rural migrant reaching the borders of affluent countries has to be abandoned.