FYI Immigrants added $3 billion to the Arkansas economy in 2004. (Vol. 2, pg. 5) Our immigrant community used $237 million in state services (mostly educational and health services) in 2004 but paid $257 million in taxes resulting in a surplus to the state budget of almost $20 million. (Vol. 2, pg. 17) If we sent all the immigrants home tomorrow, our manufacturing output would drop by $1.4 billion and factories would close across Arkansas due to an acute labor shortage. (Vol. 2, pg. 17) Immigrant spending has created 23,100 jobs that are held primarily by Arkansans born in the United States. Those jobs would disappear if our immigrant community disappears. (Vol. 2, pg. 5) Central Arkansas would alone lose $638 million in business revenues, 5,000 jobs and $143 million in payroll without its immigrant community. An even greater impact would exist in Northwest Arkansas. (Vol. 2, pg. 6) There are nine counties: Benton, Craighead, Crawford, Faulkner, Garland, Pulaski, Saline, Sebastian and Washington, which have immigrant populations with at least $50 million in purchasing power, that is, income available for spending in the local communities after taxes, savings and remittances have been subtracted. (Vol. 2, pg. 6) The education of immigrant children represents an important investment in Arkansas’ future workforce. If we permit them, many will go to college and Accelerate the economic progress their parents have started. (Vol. 1, pg. 64)

NOW what you said Ignorants

There is a simple answer to how to hold the illegals. Simply build fence internment camps. Put tents in them and hold them there until I.C.E. picks them up. It would cost a lot less than giving them all this free taxpayer paid services. JMO

First we need to make it so if we do deport illegals that they can't just come back across the border. Like SECURE THE BORDER!!!!! Dukeof Dixie the republicans are just as guilty as clinton for signing NAFTA. Look how the construction industry is overrun with illegals in Arkansas. A lot of contractors hire subs who hire illegals. Its the whole chain of command who are guility.

gzower, it's the competition that makes contractor's hire them, when your competition uses illegals, the you have to use them too , to stay in the money of the contract, alot of the illegals are in the construction industry, they finish concrete, framers, hang sheetrock, just to mention a few and these companies are owned and operated by Mexicans, so they hire illegals to work for them, it's the same reason all the factories are moving to Mexico, if their compitition moves down there and can produce the same product for about 70X less than he can, then when he decides to start selling his product for less than what you can produce it, then your out of business, I don't understand how Bill Clinton is so liberal and signed the NAFTA agreement , without any conditions, like Mexico needs to pay an equivalent to our min. wage according to their economy, to meet our EPA standards, OSHA standards, have child labor laws, retirement plans, health plans, etc.,the savings on EPA and OSHA, would entice anyone to relocate to Mexico and not have to deal with all the federal and state regulations, I think there's about 36 state and federal organizations that shut down any manufacture at any time they choose to,so why remain here

Texas and New Mexico, California are consider mexico now, so i guess we need to add arkansas, lousiana and oklahoma to the list. Just cant figure out why anybody wants to hire a illegal just to save a extra buck per hour.