U.S. cannot afford to bring more high school dropouts into country, says scholar (OneNewsNow.com)

"A domestic policy scholar has studied the long-term economic effects of adding millions more low-skilled immigrants to the U.S. work force if President Bush and members of Congress give amnesty to illegal aliens living in the country. He is very concerned about the so-called 'comprehensive immigration reform' plan working its way through Congress."

Robert Rector is senior research fellow in domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation. He says in the last 20 years, the United States has imported ten million high school dropouts from abroad, who on average receive "about $30,000 [a year] in government benefits, including public schooling, welfare, Social Security, Medicaid, public housing and so forth."

However, these immigrants only pay about $10,000 in taxes, Rector points out. "So there's a gap of about $20,000 a year of services that they receive that they don't pay for with their own taxes," he says.

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