The List: The Costs (Benefits?) of Illegal Immigration

In what is assuredly an extraordinarily good bit of timing a group calling itself FAIR has found that illegal immigrants are costing the country over $110 billion per year. Additionally, the group claims that states like California and Texas would not have their current budgetary issues if the immigrants weren't there.

This contrasts fairly (no pun intended) significantly with the findings of an outfit calling itself The Perryman Group which outlined in a 2008 study that the economy would immediately collapse if illegals were all removed.

It would be nice to be able to draw conclusions from these studies, but it is far more likely that they will simply be rolled up and used by members of Congress to hit each other over the heads with.