Only a few illegal parents actually apply for legal status when a legal child sponsers them. Law states they have to go home for 10 years before they qualify, so they just ignore it, knowing it's highly unlikely they will be deported. I have a friend that works in processing illegals...those arrested, who stays and who goes. Basically his training was...if they have legal children, with a wink and a nod....pass those over for others without children.
Interesting facts.
Based on 2002 census data, the Center for Immigration Studies calculated that households headed by illegal immigrants cost $10.4 billion more than they contributed in taxes. Among the largest costs were Medicaid, food assistance, federal prison and court systems, and federal aid to schools.
5.1 million kids, have at least one parent in the country illegally. Of those children, 79 percent were born here, the study found.
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