# Is it possible that illegal immigrants aren't a financial drain on US citizens?

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**Created:** [April 28, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-illegal-immigrants-arent-a-financial-drain-on-us-citizens/537658 "2010-04-28T19:42:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-illegal-immigrants-arent-a-financial-drain-on-us-citizens/537658/91 "2010-05-05T17:28:55Z")

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I’ve already made my point with regard to Mexico and the drug trade, in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12418294#post12418294).

But I was struck by the presence of these two lines in the same post there.

> [@How much farther do we let Mexico slide toward being a defacto narco state before we step in?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-farther-do-we-let-mexico-slide-toward-being-a-defacto-narco-state-before-we-step-in/538248/71):
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> Criminalizing something creates criminals. \*  
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> of course illegal immigrants aren’t “equal” to law abiding citizens, _they’re here illegally_

Hmm.

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