The Whole Story Or Hole Story?

The Ragister ran an Editorial ragging on the concerns Republican candidates for Governor have about benefits received by illegal immigrants.

Tell whole story about cost of illegal immigrants

There are holes in their whole story and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Ragister cites figures from a four page 2007 "issue review" by the Legislative Services Agency.

Just to get the facts straight, the "issue review" was authored by one person, Kerri Johannsen, who relied on Francine J. Lipman's (whom she mistakenly called Francince) Taxing Undocumented Immigrants: Separate, Unequal and Without Representation (Johannsen even erred on the title).

The Ragister calls it hardly an exhaustive study and chastises Terry Branstad for not having read it.

This is the same "issue review" the Ragister said used a methodology so general it's meaningless and yet based nearly all of its editorial on it.

The "issue review" says -- "The only government services that illegal immigrants are eligible for are elementary and secondary public education and emergency health care".

Illegal immigrants qualify for WIC.

Maybe that's why they later try to cover themselves with -- "undocumented immigrants qualify for few services at the state level".

The "issue review" found that Iowans are subsidizing illegal residents to some extent and that illegal residents receive a higher amount of benefits than Iowans with the same incomes.

Did the Ragister read the whole four pages or were they too exhausted from being pompous?