And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.

So where are they moving today? They're going to move to be meaner to immigrants in order to bring their conference together.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.