Though, I have no empirical evidence and don’t really spend too much time thinking about illegal immigrants cost to society that much. I would think they are here for cheap labor for the businesses that employ them.
From a quick google search: Yet all the while, farms, hotels, restaurants, small manufacturers, and other employers have continued to hire the undocumented with little regard to the federal laws intended to stop them.
At the same time, though, the fast-growing undocumented population is coming to be seen as an untapped engine of growth. In the past several years, big U.S. consumer companies — banks, insurers, mortgage lenders, credit-card outfits, phone carriers, and others — have decided that a market of 11 million or so potential customers is simply too big to ignore. It may be against the law for the Valenzuelas to be in the U.S. or for an employer to hire them, but there’s nothing illegal about selling to them.
I would assume the amount saved by hiring illegals plus being a new consumers base is a magnitude larger than a measly 4 billion.
We obviously can’t afford to get rid of illegals now. It would not be good business.
If greedy americans were not so picky about living wages it probably would not be a problem.
