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.
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Spellchecker please.
If it were half that would you be happy to pay?
If it were 1/4 of that amount would you pay?
If it were 1/10 of that would you pay?
Would you pay your tax dollars for your share of $700,000, $70,000 or $7,000 to provide for an illegal family that comes into your house, takes your food, your jobs, scoffs at your laws and traditions and commits crimes against you with near impunity. Would you be happy about that?
It really does not matter how much they cost. They are law breakers. They don’t belong here.
*It really does not matter how much they cost. They are law breakers. They don’t belong here.*
I agree!
Jeb Bush: Make America Mexico Again!
Figure $15,000 per kid per year just for school cost. Add in all the other welfare beenies and the cost goes up quickly.
Even if they worked and paid taxes, it would still be a large tax hole as they would NEVER pay enough to offset just the cost of education they would get.
3 kids=$45,000 a year just for schooling x 12 years = $540,000.
That $700,000 also supports some American crooks’ bottom line.
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