Posted on 08/25/2015 6:45:47 AM PDT by xzins
Advocates for mass-migration are using skewed financial claims to smear Donald Trump’s popular border proposals, which actually would help the near-bankrupt Social Security and Medicare programs.
For every illegal migrant household that leaves the United States under Trump’s plan, Americans would recoup nearly three-quarters of a million dollars ($719,350), according to 2010 data collected by Heritage scholar Robert Rector.
But business interests want the migrants to stay. That’s because migrants help lower the cost of Americans’ wages, but also because the migrants spend their wages — plus taxpayer aid — at retail stories and rental agencies.
For example, the American Action Forum (AAF), a business-backed pro-amnesty group, claims that legal costs and forced migration would spike the cost of Trump’s plan up to $300 billion to arrest and remove all illegal immigrants living in the United States. The AAF was founded by Fred Malek, who co-founded and chairs a hospitality investment company whose hotels employ many low skilled migrants.
AAF’s cost projections have been trumpeted by many in the mainstream media such as NBC and Fox News.
In reality, “a modest increase in enforcement (such as E-verify or visa tracking) would cause significant attrition in the illegal population– sending millions of illegals home on their own at no cost to the U.S. taxpayer.” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the non-partisan Center for Immigration Studies.
The 2010 report calculated the total contributions (mainly taxes) generated by the illegal migrants, and then subtracted the cost of taxpayer aid to those migrants. . The report then “accounts for taxes paid by illegal aliens [which is] about $13 billion a year, resulting in a net cost to taxpayers of about $100 billion.”
Israel, for example, has begun offering migrants $3,500 in cash and a one-way airplane ticket home in order to encourage repatriation.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“The debate about the fiscal consequences of unlawful and low-skill immigration is hampered by a number of misconceptions. Few lawmakers really understand the current size of government and the scope of redistribution… Unlawful immigrants, on average, are always tax consumers; they never once generate a ‘fiscal surplus’ that can be used to pay for government benefits elsewhere in society.”
If India can put up a 2700 mile fence on its border with Pakistan, floodlight it at night so it can be seen from the space station, AND build a slightly shorter one on their border with Bangladesh, why can’t the USA build a meaningful fence and floodlight it to keep the invaders from digging under it or building over it at night? Our failure shows our weakness of character, not a lack of money.
That’s racist.
I’ve been telling people this for a long time. Maybe medved needs this info.
All of the job placement agencies, social services and others sent there to help them find permanent housing or other arrangements had barely managed to move 10% of the campers out in more than two months.
Once the airline ticket program was announced, 90% of those remaining cleared out within 30 days.
That's horsechit! The illegals only spend their wages on beer and their lunches of corn cobs, tacos and burritos, and the rest of their wages they're going to the closest grocery store and wiring it back to mexico -or wherever.
Make America Great Again!
Trump/Cruz 2016
And maybe lives as well.
$700,000 per vote is a bargain to Dems who are spending other people’s money.
“why can’t the USA build a meaningful fence”
It’s not that we “cant”. The Cheap Labor Express don’t wanna.
These stupid articles must STOP CALLING THEM IMMIGRANTS!!!!!
They are ILLEGAL ALIENS!!! They are guilty of breaking and entering!
the important word is “illegal”.
Indeed!!
$700,000 sounds pretty high to me...
They are ILLEGAL WETBACKS/GREAS*RS- - - - Closest.
Irony: Raytheon, a US defense contractor, has been helping Saudi Arabia build a massive, multi-layer security fence along their border with Yemen.
But we can’t get a simple barbed wire and metal fence along OUR border built, despite a much greater economic strain under the load of illegal immigrants and their kids on social services and employment, much less the crime.
Educating the children of illegals alone come to at least a half trillion in ten years.
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