Approximated gross Texas state product 2005: 1.1 trillion dollars or...
$1,100,000,000,000.
Approximate amount of gross state product generated by illegal labor 17.7 billion...
$17,700,000,000
...or less than 2% of the whole state product.
OK, as others have pointed out, how much do they cost us in public sevices and lost tax revenue?
And how many of those jobs would have been filled by Americans?
Birdwatcher
