Immigrant Fact or Fiction

Immigrants don't pay taxes
Immigrants do pay taxes in the form of income, property, sales and taxes at the state and federal level. Students show that immigrants pay between $90 and $140 billion a year in taxes.
Most immigrants cross the border illegally
Around 75% of todays immigrants have legal, permanent visas
Immigrants come here to take welfare
Immigrants earn about $240 billion a year, pay about $90 billion in taxexes, but use only about $5 billion in benefits
Immigrant don't want to learn English or become Americans
Within tenyears of arrival more than 75% of immigrants speak English well. Greater than 33% of immigrants are naturalized citizens.