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The number I've seen is that households with illegal immigrant head-of-households pay about $16 billion in taxes and have a cost to the federal government of around $26 billion (mostly for services consumed by the children in these households that end up in schools, but also legal and uninsured emergency expenses).
But money is irrelevant to the greater issue, in my opinion. They should be paid more (and thus pay more taxes) and a system should be created to bring all workers above-board, but when you enter a country illegally they can't really bitch out not getting the full benefits.
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