Forum: Illegal immigration an even bigger problem in tough times
While the recession has rattled every rung of the economic ladder, it has ravaged the bottom bars. Unemployment stands at just more than 4 percent for college graduates but at nearly 15 percent for those lacking high-school diplomas. In poor black neighborhoods, it's about 30 percent and approaching Great Depression levels.

Mitt Romney Change on Illegal Immigration Issue Could Spell Doom for America
RALEIGH, N.C., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Several national media outlets are trying to suggest that a Mitt Romney flip flop on the issue of illegal immigration is imminent now that Romney is the presumptive winner of the GOP primary.

New Report from FAIR Finds that Illegal Immigration Costs Ohio $878 Million a Year
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that providing education, health care, law enforcement, and social and government services to illegal aliens and their dependents costs Ohio taxpayers $878 million.

Forum: Time to pick sides on illegal immigration
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox unabashedly advanced his "new vision for North American prosperity" at a recent Kennesaw State University event along with Robert Pastor, author of the 2001 book "Toward a North American Community."

Forum: Illegal aliens exacerbate economic woes
Heard this one? "Immigration is not a hot issue right now - people are concerned about jobs, the Georgia budget cuts, the mortgage meltdown, education and health care."

Forum: Stop employing illegal immigrants
Georgia lawmakers are considering ways to solve the illegal immigration crisis. The solution is obvious. Enforcement works, just like with any other crime. Illegal immigrants migrate out of every area in which jobs become unavailable and the law is enforced, and take budget-crashing dependents with them.

Eberhart: Illegal immigration hurts low-wage minorities
As an African American, I'd find it quite refreshing to hear "leaders" in the minority community and editorial writers acknowledge the damage done by illegal immigration. The Americans first and most affected by the crime of illegal immigration are native-born Hispanics and African Americans.