Reader comments: Business interests seek employer sanction changes in Arizona

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b | 10:37 a.m. Oct. 13, 2008
Maricopa County prosecutor Andrew Thomas, will stop your jobs being stolen by illegal alien lawbreakers. He has shown his true patriotic Character as a true American patriot and shamed other pathetic lawman. He is a man of his word and will become a strong defender of legal population rights.

According to a study by the Heritage Foundation, each low-skilled immigrant household received $30,160 in government benefits - including education, medical care, transportation and sanitation services - but paid only $10,573 in taxes. That means the average low-skilled immigrant household costs American taxpayers almost $20,000 per year. Also, the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that low-skilled American workers lose an average of $1,800 a year because of competition from low-skilled immigrants for their jobs. Driving down the wages of American workers is not a route to "economic opportunity" the chamber claims is its goal.

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