Please stop falling for the undocumented workers being costly crap, You people are fully grown and should be able to do your own research not just fall for the crap the media feeds you. 1. False Documents have Tax's taken out on them regardless if they are made up created or stolen. 2. The people who have had their Identifications stolen should know by the time Tax time comes around they didn't make that extra 30,000 a year and should have reported it to the IRS, if not they are also part of the problem for collecting extra income.3.Need to start cracking down on people who rent or sale their SS# to illegals to benefit themselves during Tax season. But I am not here to teach you the obvious and I don't want to take away from free loaders. The Question you asked Do you think cracking down on undocumented will help or hurt the economy? My experience is here in my area deportation has been costly for the last three years for the Arizona,California,Navada Utah economies, but you can check with Iowa, Ohio, the Carolina's many companies in those States and others had to close because of lack of workers or their workers getting deported........ We need to focuss on work permits and this wouldn't even be an issue.

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Archie: "go check the local emergency rooms you won't find any illegals seeking medical attention it's all US citizens"!

I hope you are either saying that tongue in cheek / or maybe just being facetious, because you couldn't be more mistaken.

well if YOU are saying YOU are not right.... why are you saying anything at all? I guess because it has to do with your people, you are very vocal when it comes to your hombres, makes me wonder why you don't hop on over there & help your compadres fix up their own country.

Identity theft is NOT a victimless crime. It costs the victim thousands of dollars & equal amount of time, ruined credit & it never, ever goes away. I have a great idea, why don't you give away YOUR SS# to the influx of illegals so they can work & the rest of us can be safe.

neither you nor I can deny the facts and I"m not saying I'm right!!

who's judging who?

Keep dreaming Archie.
There was a report recently that stated a large portion of government housing was occupied by illegal aliens. They do get welfare, as their anchor babies qualify them. WWW is correct, the little they pay in payroll taxes, they more than take out in other, more meaningful ways. How much do you think paper & printer costs are for all the government paperwork that is both in English & Spanish?

I can't believe you feel sorry for them not getting any credit for the little taxes they do pay, considering whoevers identity it is that was stolen is paying thousands of dollars to deal with it & it will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Shame you haven't experienced that yet, maybe you wouldn't be so quick to judge us.

the percentages of people on welfare are, whites 48%, blacks 22% and hispanics at 22%. I don't think the illegal alien can qualify for welfare or foodstamps! Those are benefits for citizens only!

well who do you want them to send the money to?

go check the local emergency rooms you won't find any illegals seeking medical attention it's all US citizens!

they also pay payroll withholding and social security and they never draw any out because most social security numbers belong to someone else! you keep believing that they take out more than they contribute! they are the ones that get taken advantage of!

Archie...Illegals pay sales tax when they buy something and pay property taxes indirectly when (if) they pay rent. I suggest to yoyu that they suck up far more in education, medical care for themselves and their kids and in police and jail expenses than they ever pay in taxes. I suggest they are a net drain on the economy. They also send dollars out of the country to family back home. That is money that never gets spent here helping this economy.

are you trying to say that un-documented workers don't pay taxes?

Taxes pay law enforcement, teachers, roads, hosptials, etc;, so if 7 out of 10 people who work and pay in their taxes, then taxes increase to pay for the 3 who don't pay in(and they do use hospitals, roads, teachers, law enforcement), and now with people getting laid off, jobs are needed who will gladly take these jobs from undocumented workers and pay their taxes.
Instead of using 10 as the people who work and pay thier taxes lets use a million, 7 million pay taxes and 3 million don't, and of course this nothing compared to the real number.