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The American race for president has put immigration to the top of the national conversation.
美国此次总统竞选将移民问题推向了国民讨论高潮。
Some candidates argue that immigrants are a drag on U.S. taxpayers.
一些候选人认为，移民对于美国纳税人来说是沉重的负担。
Illegal immigrants cost the U.S. economy about $113 billion every year, said a report released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform in 2010.
美非法移民每年消耗经济成本约1130亿美元，美国移民改革联盟于2010年发布此报道。
That conservative group, which supports stronger limits on immigration, said state and local governments pay most of the cost.
支持强控移民的保守派认为州政府和地方政府承担了大部分费用。
But how much do illegal immigrants pay in taxes?
那么非法移民到底缴纳了多少税额呢？
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a non-partisan research group,about $11.64 billion a year in state and local taxes.
据美国无党派研究组织---税收和经济政策研究所调查显示，非法移民每年共缴纳州税和地方税116.4亿美元。
Matt Gardner is the executive director of the Institute.He says it is difficult to know the exact costs of illegal immigration.He says many estimates are guesses.
马特·加德纳是该研究所执行理事。他表示准确知道非法移民的开支并非易事。许多估计也仅仅是猜测。
But he says he believes illegal immigrants pay a lot of tax.
但是他认为非法移民对美国税收贡献很大。
"If you listened to the policy debates that are happening, whether it's from candidates or from people who are already in office,you would think the answer is ‘zero.'
"如果你听到了当前候选人或是执政人员的政策辩论，你会以为非法移民没有纳税。"
"It's a lot bigger than zero. $11.6 billion a year is a meaningful amount of revenue for state and local governments," he says.
他说，"非法移民其实缴纳了大量税额。每年116亿美元对于州政府和地方政府来说都是很大一笔财政收入。"
The institute estimates that illegal immigrants would pay about $2.1 billion dollars more if they were permitted to work legally.
据研究所估计，若非法移民能够在美合法工作，他们将多纳税21亿美元。
There are more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.They are about 3.5 percent of the nation's population.Most of them live in California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois. About half are Mexican.
美国有1100多万非法移民。他们占据了美国总人口的3.5%。非法移民大多居住在加州、德克萨斯州、佛罗里达州、纽约、新泽西州和伊利诺斯州。墨西哥人口占据了非法移民人数的一半。
In a 2007 report,the Congressional Budget Office estimated that legal and illegal immigrants pay more tax than the cost of services they are given.
2007年的报道中美国国会预算局估计，合法及非法移民缴纳的税额远远高于他们所得到的服务成本。
The same report found that on the state and local level, illegal immigrants paid less tax than what they took in services.
该报道还显示，在州和地方层级，非法移民纳税少于其所得服务。
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