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Examining the Economic Contributions of Undocumented Immigrants by Country of Origin

Few posts+links:

Why Are We Protecting Illegal Immigrants In This Country?

The data show that immigrants take more in benefits than they pay in taxes. Although immigrants do boost the size of the economy, the gains are heavily skewed toward the immigrants themselves and to wealthy investors — not to native-born workers who end up competing with the new arrivals.

Why Are We Protecting Illegal Immigrants In This Country?

Turning to the fiscal impact, immigrants do not pay enough in taxes to cover their consumption of public services at the present time. The NAS report presents eight different scenarios based on different assumptions about the current fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) of immigrants and their dependent children. All of the scenarios show that immigrants are a fiscal drain. The drain is as large as $299 billion a year.2 In all the scenarios dealing with the current fiscal impact the deficit is as large or larger than the economic benefit reported above. > Second-generation and third-generation Americans (native-born children and grandchildren of immigrants) are also in fiscal deficit, mainly because of the federal budget deficit shown in Table 8-2 p. 312. Of course, a fiscal drain for natives may be unavoidable. But adding more people through our immigration policies who run a deficit only adds to the problem. > The deficit is mainly caused by the federal budget deficit…

Why Are We Protecting Illegal Immigrants In This Country?

These $296 billion is basically what taxpayers pay to the illegal workers on behalf of the employers who employs the illegal immigrants. That’s the most important factor for income inequality by a double whammy: citizen workers lost job due to lower pay to illegal immigrants, and citizen taxpayers pay part of the illegal salary through benefits. No wonder Trump wins

Main thread:

Why Are We Protecting Illegal Immigrants In This Country?

Hey, everyone has to go through the proper channels to get this great country. I side with The Prez on this one, quite frankly. Why should the folks who are against the sanctuary status be penalized (lost of fed funds)? I don’t recall us getting the opportunity to vote for or against this. (Unless we did, way back when). RIP Kate Steinle