He claims that what we are doing. you know. some people say we are bringing in cheap labor. but he suggests we are Importing poverty. and that that importation of poverty is having a dramatically negative impact on our country. If this country continues to allow uneducated. unskilled workers to come here illegally. it will bankrupt America. and we are in the process of bankrupting America. According to a report released by the Heritage Foundation. 50 to 60 percent of illegal immigrants are high school dropouts. 4.6 million U.S. households are headed up by immigrant dropouts. The Pew Hispanic Institute Center estimates that 49 percent of high school dropouts are illegal immigrants. The Heritage report estimates that the cost to the American taxpayer over the lifetime of a high school dropout is T1.1 million per dropout. Because of the government benefits they receive versus what they pay back into the system in taxes. the net cost. per year. for all of these illegal alien dropouts that are coming here. high school dropouts. these povertystricken people. the net cost to us per year is $397 billion. almost $400 billion a year. Put that in perspective. Of all the things we try to finance in this Congress and cant find an extra $25 million for breast cancer research.* Put it Into the context with the millions of illegals who are working here in the United States off the books. who do not pay their share of the taxes. but will still reap the benefits of government programs. from welfare to health care to Social Security to public schools and housing.
Identified stereotypes
Generalizing that illegal immigrants are uneducated, unskilled, and a drain on the economy.