This is the part of the transcript from last nights Lou Dobbs show on the cost to NC from illegal immigrants:

"BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The impact of Hispanics in North Carolina is noticeable but not measured until now. Seventy-six percent of Hispanics who have moved to the state since 1995 are illegal aliens according to a new study by the University of North Carolina. Five of the top seven occupations for Hispanics in North Carolina were in construction in 2004, 29 percent of the jobs held by Hispanic workers, and wages fell. JOHN KASARDA, UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA: From 2004, the construction industry without the Hispanic labor if they paid the wages of non-Hispanics, assuming there's a labor substitution effect of non-Hispanics, would have been almost $1 billion higher.

TUCKER: Among the studies other findings, the influx of illegals did create 90,000 new jobs, while suppressing overall wage growth by $2 billion statewide. Additional costs in 2004 included education, $476 million; health care, $299 million; and law enforcement, $51 million; for an additional $817 million in the budget.

Increasingly, state politicians nationwide are beginning to realize the cost of illegal immigration in their states."
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