Today’s I have just a short “ignorance removal post.” There are many misunderstandings out there, including many assumptions about  undocumented immigrants. Friends are often surprised when I explain, for example, that most “illegal immigrants” (not sure I like the title, since it is a civil infraction and not a criminal one to be here without papers), actually pay more in taxes than similar workers. This is because they get hired  using forged documents, pay all the usual taxes (including the largest, which is payroll taxes–and they never get to claim social security benefits), but they often do not claim the tax refunds that are due to them. Go to your state’s unclaimed money website and you can see this in the lists of unclaimed refund checks (look at the most common last names).

Another fallacy is that immigrants are a huge burden on our health care system. While this is a problem in some areas near the Mexican border, look at what Jason L. Riley reported in his book, Let Them In – The Case For Open Borders:

“A study done in 2006 by » Read more: Immigrants and Health care Costs