Our View: Illegal Immigrants Dont Bleed Us Dry

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Much of the most recent rise in anti-illegal immigration sentiment is rooted in anger and resentment. Those emotions are fueled by silly math, regarding the costs of aliens coupled with recession anxiety. Most Americans aren't bigots on a crusade against people with brown skin, as critics of anti-immigration hysteria too often charge. More typically, activists who fight against illegal immigration are overtaxed, overburdened and underpaid Americans, of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, who have bought false arguments that say immigrants add to their pain by costing them money. Their anxiety is easy to understand.

Jack martin, director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), told ABC News that illegal aliens cost each American household "in the neighborhood of a couple thousand dollars a year." Accepted at face value, that stands to enrage working Americans who barely cover their mortgages and the costs of food and health care.

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Our View: Illegal Immigrants Dont Bleed Us Dry

Instigators of rage are easy to find on this issue, and they deal in funny math that dismisses the value of work. Take Dean Martin, for example, who's the Arizona state...

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