ABSTRACT
The cost figures are subject to more than one interpretation. While pub lic services provide benefits to immigrants, it must be noted that benefits ac crue to natives as well, as is pointed out by Michael Fix and Jeffrey Passel:
The single largest component of immigrant-related public sector costs is the cost of providing public and secondary education, which is ap proximately $11 billion annually for immigrants. The actual recipi ents of these expenditures are, for the most part, native-born teach ers, school administrators, maintenance staffs, and others employed in school administration, maintenance, and construction (Fix & Passel, 1 994, 62) .
