There is little direct evidence that illegal aliens pay billions in taxes. We do have direct evidence that they are choking our social systems on the border. Anyone who has lived near the border can clearly attest to this.
An increase in deportations is directly related to increase in border crossings, much of them being funneled due to building of the high tech border fence in Southern Calif.
Now lets look at the facts surrounding the stress on our social systems.
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The 1.5 million school-aged illegal immigrants residing in the United States4 and their 2 million U.S.-born siblings can be divided among the states using government estimates of the illegal alien population.5 Using each state’s per-pupil expenditure reported by the U.S. Department of Education,6 cost estimates for educating illegal immigrants in each state are shown below.
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http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?pag...s_iv_ctrl=1901
Bottom line is that the contributions in monetary gain by illegal immigrants in now way covers the costs to the individual states. We have had to many years of Administration after Administration ignoring the issue. Good on AZ for having the guts to do something about it.