Tamar Jacoby did a very good job on this article. He used a lot of facts. This article had a lot of information to help you understand immigration better.There is an illegal flow of immigrants coming to the United States. Between 2002 and 2012,according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy is expected to create some 56 million new jobs, half of which will require no more than a high school education. More than 75 million baby boomers will retire in that period.The construction industry creates some 185,000 jobs annually, and although construction workers now earn between $30,000 and $50,000 a year. The prospects for the restaurant business are even bleaker. With 12.5 million workers nationwide, restaurants are the nation's largest private-sector employer, and their demand for labor is expected to grow by percent between 2005 and 2015. But the native-born work force will grow by ten percent in that period, and the number of 16-to-24-year-old job seekers.North Carolina has one of the fastest growing foreign-born populations in the country. Of North Carolina's new jobs in the past decade, and they were responsible for $9.2 billion in consumer spending and $1.9 billion in saved wages.Between two-thirds and three-quarters in every major poll would like to see Congress address the problem with a combination of tougher enforcement and earned citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already living and working here.

A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that eight million laborers working 2,000 hours a year at $9 an hour would generate $144 billion worth of economic activity.